ColdBox 3 has reached M6 and has some really nice improvements over ColdBox 2.6. One of my favourite features is the environment interceptor. Being able to define different settings per environment is not new to Coldbox, but with the new cfc based config it's even easier. Read more »
ColdBox 3 has a cunning trick up it's sleeve that allows you to "bootstrap" ColdBox to your application and therefore allow per-application mapping to the ColdBox directory, that is a sub-folder inside my application folder. There is more information on the ColdBox wiki, but there isn't an example of what the Application.cfc looks like. So here is one I created using the excellent ColdFusion Build ColdBox exten Read more »
I've just started building a new site using Coldfusion 9's ORM capabilities. Being a good developer (OK, so I'm not but I aspire to be!) I created my tests directory and then hit the problem of how do I actually test Persisted Entities using MXUnit in a ColdBox 3 application? Read more »
I'm posting this in case other developers aren't aware of what you can do. Last time I blogged about per-application mappings, this time it is the turn of the argumentCollection parameter! Read more »
I've been playing around with ColdBox 3 beta for a while now and decided I wanted to have an interceptor which utilises Brian Kotek's excellent FormUtilities CFC. Read more »
Joe Reinhart blogged earlier this week about his ColdFusion 9 ORM: Generic DAO wrapper. I've been playing around with something similar (although I don't have a dynamic finder method like Joe has) which uses a Gateway Factory and an Abstract Gateway and thought I'd post my code here in case anyone was interested. Read more »
I decided to convert a Fusebox application (which uses ColdSpring) to ColdBox as learning new frameworks is always good. Here are the basic comparisions between a Fusebox XML, Fusebox no XML, and ColdBox controller (or event handlers in ColdBox). Read more »
I'm using ColdBox (the 2.6.3 release) for the first time on a client site and one of the reasons for choosing it is the ColdBox Proxy. This allows you to use ColdBox as an event-driven framework for handling remoting. What is really neat about it is that you can monitor remote calls which is a great way of debugging your applications. Read more »
I've had a few hours spare so thought I'd see for myself if Railo is as fast as I've heard. Well, after running a few of my own mini applications I can backup the claims. Read more »
I've been keeping my eye on the Coldbox framework for ColdFusion and have heard a lot of positive things about it. I've been a Fusebox user since version 4 came out; whilst I liked the concept, Fusebox 3 just wasn't mature enough. Coldbox and the fuseb… Read more »
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