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ContentBox Utilities 4 Adobe CF Builder

Luis Majano |  November 15, 2012

Our engineering team is proud to introduce our ContentBox Utilities extension for Adobe ColdFusion Builder IDE.  This IDE is an incredible IDE for ...

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ContentBox is Giving Away a Kindle Fire for Christmas

Luis Majano |  November 14, 2012

Check out the sweet contest just announced on the ContentBox blog.  In celebration of the release of ColdBox Lite and to lift everyone's Christmas spirits, it has just been announced that anyone who wants to make a theme or module for ContentBox  and share it on ForgeBox will be entered in to win a Kindle Fire and ot...

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Tip of the Week: Regular and Private Request Collection

Brad Wood |  November 14, 2012

 

In a ColdBox request, form, URL, and remote (proxy request) variables are merged together into the request collection which is accessible via event.getCollection() or as the "rc" struct passed into every action in your handlers.  Data needed to process that request can be added and retrieved from this collection at any time during the request as it is available to any layouts and views as well.  
 
What you may not now howeve...
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Come Check Out ColdBox Lite Tomorrow at Noon CST and Learn How to Win a Kindle Fire

Brad Wood |  November 13, 2012

I want to make sure everyone knows about the special ColdBox Connection meeting scheduled this Wednesday at Noon CST.  We'll be unveiling ColdBox Lite, a new way to have excellent MVC conventions for small projects without worrying about depth of the full ColdBox Framework.  What's best, is that you can graduate up to full ColdBox at any time with a single line of code in your Application.cfc.

If that isn't enough to get you there, what if I told you there's also...

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ContentBox Express Has Arrived!

Luis Majano |  November 13, 2012

We are also proud to announce our ContentBox Express edition powered by Railo today!  The express edition of ContentBox allows you to just download our engine, click startup and you are ready to roll with ContentBox.  It includes an embedded database and fully open source stack to get your project started in no time.  So what are you waiting for, download ContentBox E...

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ContentBox Modular CMS v1.1.0 Released!

Luis Majano |  November 13, 2012

ContentBox Modular CMS v1.1.0 has now been released sporting an awesome new datasource and db installer that will make installing ContentBox a breeze, mobile layout detection, layout inheritance, new UI actions and so muc...

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ContentBox Utilities for CF Builder Released!

Luis Majano |  November 13, 2012

We are so proud to announce our first ever Adobe ColdFusion Builder extension: ContentBox Utilities.  This extension will allow you to extend your IDE for ContentBox applications by providing you with:

  • Code Introspection
  • ContentBox helper introspection
  • Layout helper introspection
  • Open...
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ContentBox Modular CMS v1.1.0

Luis Majano |  November 13, 2012

We are so glad to announce another iteration of our ContentBox Modular CMS v1.1.0.  This release brings in some fantastic new features and important fixes to current installs.  We also have an express edition which is a fully open source stack ready for usage.  I...

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Tip of the Week: View Helpers

Brad Wood |  November 09, 2012

 

Have you ever had an ad-hoc helper UDF that you needed in your view?  Perhaps it was too localized to put in your global UDF Library, but you didn't want to clutter up your actual view with the logic.   That's what View Helpers are here for.  
 
They're incredibly simple and driven by good-old conventions.  If you have a view file called products.cfm, simply create a file in the same folder called productsHelper.cfm...
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ColdBox Online Training for iOS

Luis Majano |  November 06, 2012

Thanks to the great folks at Udemy, you can now take your ColdBox course(s) on your iOS devices.  Here is also a little gift for all iOS folks as well, a nice discount on the course: http://www.udemy.com/coldbox-platform-devel...

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