Bob Silverberg just announced the availability of a ColdBox plugin for interacting with his Validate This! framework!  I highly encourage you to test drive Validate This as it is truly an awesome validation framework.  He not only did the plugin but adapted a sample application to work with it.

So if you are still trying to determine validation and want an easy and great solution, give ValidateThis a shot!  Here are some links for you:

• Bob's Blog Post: CLick Here 
• ValidateThis blog category: Click Here
• ValidateThis Online Demo Site: CLick Here
• ValidateThis Mailing List: CLick Here
  

I have been asked quite a few times why not make a ColdBox lite version where you can only have the basics?  Well, not many people now that this already exists.  Therefore, I am linking to the SimpleMVC template you can use if you are just starting with ColdBox.  This template is just the basic ColdBox conventions and a few settings, that's it. This template will ease you in to ColdBox MVC development.  Once you are comfortable with just the basics of how to build apps with conventions you can always add on and start brining in extra features from the Coldbox Platform like: caching, logging, AOP, interceptors, feed integrations, security, etc.  However, you won't feel as intimidated as if you where starting with a huge settings file.

The reason of having all the settings listed out is to tell the developer that there are all these settings you can use.  It is also hard to create templates when everybody's level and approach is different.  However, this can be overwhelming to entry level users, therefore we are now including the SimpleMVC template in the coldbox downloads to come or you can download it from here now: http://www.coldbox.org/downloads/simpleMVC.zip (3.0 template)

So let's do a simple ColdBox for Newbies guide:

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Thanks to Elite Open Source Jobs (http://www.eliteopensourcejobs.com/), we are now online to offer jobs to the ColdBox community.  We are just starting today so there are no job postings as of now, but I encourage any company, developer or manager out there to please check this post out and continue reading.

We have created a Jobs section of the ColdBox website to promote the community and help developers get their next dream job using ColdBox, look at the screen shot to your left or just look up at the middle bar.  So if you are a company in need of ColdBox developers you can now have a specialized location where you can post your opportunities.  If you are a ColdBox developer in search of job postings, contracts or what be, you know have a location where you can search for your next gig or full time job.  The ColdBox Jobs section will showcase all job postings and aggregate a central location for anything ColdBox related, whether full-time, contract or small gig.

We are really serious when it comes to empowering the community and helping not only the ColdBox community but also the ColdFusion community.  So please join our job posting community and post your opportunities now!

A brand new update to LogBox is now online and on SVN.  This update includes mostly fixes and more fixes.

http://coldbox.org/index.cfm/download

Enjoy!

This is a very small update that just let's you CF9 folks to get up and running better.  So grab this update so you can have all the CF9 goodness.

http://www.coldboxframework.com/index.cfm/download