Hi,

My name is Curt Gratz, and I'm a Coldbox Junkie...

Before I started posting to the Coldbox blog, I thought I should introduce myself.  I am a long time (13+ year) Coldfusion developer, part owner of Coldbox Alliance Partner Computer Know How, and the newest member of Team Coldbox. 

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This week we would like to showcase Label A's ColdBox case study.  They have some excellent applications and products based on the ColdBox Platform that is really awesome work.  Their case study can be found here: http://wiki.coldbox.org/wiki/CaseStudies:LabelA.cfm

What made you choose ColdBox? What where ColdBox's main advantages?

When I stared with Coldbox, it all seemed so easy and logical. I went trough the documentation and getting started tutorials, and soon realized that this was the way I wanted to develop our Coldfusion applications. What drew us to Coldbox at first was the convention over configuration part.

Just a reminder that our Early Bird pricing for our Ontario, California ColdBox training ends this Friday at 11:59 PM PST.  So book your training today and just as a last early bird week gift, use the discount code: cfug and get an extra $100 chopped off the early bird price.

OVERVIEW

Core ColdBox is our 2-day flagship intensive training course that will get you started with ColdBox even if you have no previous OO experience. The course is constructed in such a manner that both gurus and novices can take advantage of our materials.

More Information and Requirements

SCHEDULE

February 20, Saturday - CBOX 101 - Day 1

February 21, Sunday - CBOX 101 - Day 2

* The night of the 20th we will have a group dinner (optional) and a open BOF.

 

This January 28th at 5PM PST our free book contest ends, so get your entries submitted by then.  All you have to do is submit code entries to ForgeBox and the person with the most amount of submitted projects wins a free ColdBox book!! That's it! So get to it!

You will first need to register an account with us in our ForgeBox site:http://www.coldbox.org/index.cfm/forgebox/submitcode

You will then need to post as many code entries to the forge as you can.  The person with the most contributed code entries until January 28, 2010 at 5pm PST will win the free book!

That's it, all you have to do is contribute to the forge cool plugins, interceptors, sample apps, etc and you are on your way to getting a free book!

The eclipse help plugins have been updated for this 3.0.0 M4 release. So update now.

How To Install

Please follow the following directions in order to install the ColdBox eclipse plugins:

1. From the Help menu, select Software Updates > Find and Install to open an Install/Update window.
2. On the Install/Update pop-up window, choose Search for new features to install, and click the Next button.
3. Set up a new remote site to scan for updates.
   1. Click the New Remote Site... button to open a New Update Site pop-up window.
   2. Type the name of the new plug-in in the name text box. ColdBox Framework
   3. In the URL text box, type the URL: http://www.coldbox.org/distribution/eclipse
      
   4. Click OK.
   5. Click the Finish button to open an Updates window.
4. On the Updates window, check the box next to the name of the plug-in, and click the Next button.
5. Choose the option to accept the terms of the license agreement, and click the Next button.
6. Click the Finish button.
7. Click the Install All button.

How To Open Help Contents

To open the documentation plugins, go to Help > Help Contents