Here is the recording for our presentation today on ContentBox: http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p2teycibat3/

To start our 2012 ColdBox Connection schedule right, we will be showcasing a first look at ContentBox this Thursday January 19th, 2012 at our usual time: 10AM Pacific Standard Time in our usual channel: http://experts.adobeconnect.com/coldbox-connection/

The ColdBox Connection is a bi-weekly free webinar that features the ColdBox Team and of course ColdBox related seminars. Not only do we showcase features about ColdBox but we are also available to answer any of your questions directly on the show. This is a great opportunity to ask anything you like to the ColdBox team and also give feedback on the direction of the platform. Curious about ColdBox, WireBox, CacheBox, LogBox or MockBox? Need urgent help on a topic? Want to hang out with some cool cats? 

For those of you who do not know what ContentBox is, here is a little insight. ContentBox is our next major project here at Ortus Solutions, which is a highly modular content platform based on ColdBox architecture and modules. It is a set of ColdBox modules that work in unison to provide you with blog, cms and development capabilities. It is still in private alpha, but you can be part of it if you like by just requesting it: contentbox@ortussolutions.com. The major difference than traditional blogs or cms, is that ContentBox is highly extensible via ColdBox features and event driven programming. You can easily extend it and create other modules that function outside of ContentBox with their own DI, caching, SES, or extend the content as well.

Thanks to Tim Cunningham for hosting me at one of his awesome Bolt Talks.  In this bolt talk we have a chat about our newest adventure: ContentBox!

Thanks to Scott Coldwell we are releasing a new version of our JSMin compressor plugin for JS and CSS files for ColdBox.  As usual, you can install this latest release via ForgeBox or ColdFusion Builder if you have the ColdBox Platform Utilities extension installed.  This release sports the following:

• Content hash approach to file generation so same file name survives restarts until content changes occur.  This is great for CDNs, browser caching and generation.  Meaning the concatenated files change until a change is made in their content.
• Updated to use string builders instead of buffers
• Fixed to remove first empty line of JS and CSS files.

So what are you waiting for, install it now: JSMin compressor plugin!

Here is the video of our presentation about the unveiling of ContentBox.  ContentBox is a modular content platform for ColdFusion that is based on the ColdBox platform.  It provides you with out of the box features like enterprise blog, cms, and more coming soon.  Based on a completely modular architecture, extending ContentBox is a matter of knowing about ColdBox and event driven programming.

Thanks to the Houston ColdFusion User Group for hosting us last night and unveiling ContentBox for the first time.  Here are the slides of the presentation for you to enjoy and later on we will be posting the video presentation for all to enjoy.

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Just a quick note that we will be showcasing ContentBox, our modular content platform for ColdFusion, at the Houston User Group next week.  So if you will be close by, please drop by as we will have a hands on workshop on how to install ContentBox and get it up and running.

For those of you who do not know what ContentBox is, here is a little insight.  ContentBox is our next major project here at Ortus Solutions, which is a highly modular content platform based on ColdBox architecture and modules.  It is a set of ColdBox modules that work in unison to provide you with blog, cms and development capabilities.  It is still in private alpha, but you can be part of it if you like by just requesting it: contentbox@ortussolutions.com.  The major difference than traditional blogs or cms, is that ContentBox is highly extensible via ColdBox features and event driven programming.  You can easily extend it and create other modules that function outside of ContentBox with their own DI, caching, SES, or extend the content as well. 

Hopefully, we will have an open beta soon!