I've been getting occasional errors on a ColdBox 3.0.0 website which is using the ColdBox Object Cache Manager where the value is undefined. I've tried to replicate it but couldn't. However, I think I've figured it out. Read more »
This is probably common knowledge to seasoned ColdBox developers, but I wasn't sure how event chaining worked with runEvent, so I did a simple test. Read more »
On the ColdBox mailing list the other day, a new user was having trouble getting the the in-built support for integration testing up and running. I emailed off list my typical setup (which worked for him), and thought I'd post here as well in case it inspires anyone else to get into Unit Testing. Read more »
One of the many cool features in ColdBox is the ability to cache views in the template cache. This is great for improving performance of your site in production, but gets a bit tiresome when you're changing code in the view and have to manually clear the cache to see your changes. Someone asked over on the ColdBox mailing lists if you could turn off view caching for a dev environment, I posted a reply (along with some good comments by the smart folks on that list), but thought I'd blog it here as well. Read more »
ColdBox is an MVC framework on steriods and ValidateThis is, as the name suggests, a validation framework. As I was asked about this recently, I thought I'd blog a simple example of how you use them together. Read more »
ColdBox has some awesome caching capabilities which can really improve your application's performance. I wanted to have a closer look at the options available in ColdBox 3 (using the latest version from github) and thought I'd post some sample code here as well in case it's useful for anyone else. Read more »
I was working on a ColdBox 3 site and noticed that the wiki page for the Mailservice is quite sparse, so I thought I'd blog a simple example of it in use. Read more »