We are excited to announce our first ever *BOX Party Hackathon at this year's CFObjective 2013 sponsored by Ortus Solutions and Computer Know How.  We will be holding a get together for all *BOX aficionados (WireBox, MockBox, LogBox, ColdBox, ColdBox LITE, DevBox, ContentBox, DataBoss, etc) filled with drinks, prizes and cool hacking events.  We have some awesome geek prizes from rubik's cubes, to 80's inspired electronics and more.  So even if you are not a *BOX aficionado, drop by and get to know your CFML community.

WHEN: Friday May 17th, 2013 at 6:00 PM

WHERE: FireLake Grill House & Cocktail Bar inside the Radisson Blu Hotel, where the pool tables are and where all the geeks have gathered up!

We are so excited to bring you our very first ColdBox BootCamp of the year.  We will be holding an amazing ColdBox BootCamp before this year's CF.Objective 2013 conference from May 13th to the 15th.  The schedule of courses we will be offering are the following:

• May 13-14: A combination of CBOX 100 and 101 led by ColdBox creator Luis Majano
• May 15: CBOX 204 Testing, Mocking, Stubbing, Oh My! led by ColdBox Team member Curt Gratz

The location of the training location is just 5 minutes away from the Conference Venue.

We are excited to announce that we will be presenting about ColdBox LITE at the San Francisco User Group on January 17th, 2013 @ 7pm.  So if you are close to the San Francisco area, please stop by and join us for some great food, drinks and geek talk!

For those of you who do not know what ColdBox LITE is, here is a little synopsis:

ColdBox LITE (CBL) is an MVC framework with a subset of features of the ColdBox Platform that deal with MVC only. Thus, providing a light-weight conventions based MVC framework. Since ColdBox itself is built with modularity, CBL was the last piece we wanted to decouple from the platform to provide yet another standalone library for ColdFusion. CBL focuses on providing developers a light weight MVC engine in two flavors:

• CBL Standard
• CBL Standard with ORM

The ORM flavor includes all of our ORM additions such as Active Entity, ORM base and virtual services, Hibernate criteria and detached criteria builders and ORM Dependency Injection. CBL also includes WireBox as the standard engine that provides access to the model, dependency injection and persistence.

We are so glad to announce our CFCamp 2012 boot camp training in Munich, Germany.  We will be attending this amazing conference from October 15-16, 2012 in beautiful Munich, Germany.  Then on October 17 and 18 we will be holding several ColdBox and ContentBox trainings, called HOTs (Hands on Trainings).  Each HOT will be about 4 hours long.

October 17 - ColdBox Basics

In this HOT we will introduce you to the ColdBox Platform and get you started in MVC.  We will get hands on experience in building a sample ColdBox application and review the basics of MVC architecture.  Topic Outline will be:

• Course Introduction
• ColdBox Introduction
• Request Context
• Event Handlers Exposed
• Layouts/Views
• Model Integration

Register Now!

October 17 - ColdBox Advanced

In this HOT we will cover advanced ColdBox techniques as they apply to ColdFusion ORM.  We will investigate all the ORM extensions that ColdBox offers and build an application with ColdBox and ColdFusion ORM. Topic Outline will be:

• Quick ORM Introduction
• ColdBox Base ORM Service
• Virtual Entity Services
• Active Entity
• Entity Event Handlers
• Hibernate ColdBox Criteria Builders
• Building an ORM enabled application
• Generating the database from our domain model
• Testing our application

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October 18 - ContentBox Modular CMS Basics

ContentBox is a next generation modular content management platform for ColdFusion.  It is completely free and open source.  It is based on ColdBox and modular architecture that allows for ANY ColdBox application to provide CMS capabilities via modules.  In this HOT we will get to do the following:

• Introduction to ContentBox
• ContentBox architecture
• Installing ContentBox
• ContentBox directory structure
• Capabilities overview
• Creating our first ContentBox Site

Register Now!

October 18 - ContentBox Modular CMS Advanced

In this advanced session, we will take what we learned in our basics HOT and continue to expand our site by applying advanced techniques like:

• Creating a custom layout theme
• Creating a widget
• Creating a module
• Content Custom Fields
• Custom HTML Values
• Advanced administration

Register Now!

The month of August has us excited and here are 3 reasons why it should have you excited too!

Reason #1:  RIACON 2012

Yes we love training and RIACON will provide that but what has us really excited is that our very own Luis Majano will be presenting at RIACON 2012 this year.  It is going to be in Washington, DC on August 6th and 7th.

Let us know if you are going.

Reason #2: ColdBox Boot Camp

Do you want to keep learning after RIACON?  The ColdBox Boot Camp is the perfect place for you.  Check out the blog post to see what courses will be offered and to register.

Blog Post: http://blog.coldbox.org/blog/riacon-coldbox-boot-camp-washington-dc

Reason # 3: ContentBox CMS Workshop

ContentBox is the new open source content engine and we will be showing you how you can implement it in your projects.  To register and see a list of topics that will be discussed. check out the blog post.

Blog Post: http://blog.coldbox.org/blog/riacon-contentbox-cms-workshop-washington-dc

We look forward to seeing you at one, two or all three of these events.

Happy Coding!

On Thursday May 31st, our very own Luis Majano will be presenting on ColdBox at the Orange County ColdFusion User Group.  Come out to learn about what some of the features are in the ColdBox 3.5 release:

• Caching
• AOP & Dependency Injection
• Broadcast Interceptors
• Conventions
• RESTful web  services
• So much more...

Just in case you needed another reason to come out, the user group is having their semiannual Adobe software raffle.  Don't miss out on this great opportunity to find out about the latest version of ColdBox and possibly win some Adobe software.  The meeting starts at 7pm and is located at 30 Executive Park, Suite 100, Irvine, CA (MAP).

See you there!

Thanks to all who came out to my presentation at this years CF.Objective().  It was my first year speaking and it was an honor to have you and I would like to say thank you to the conference orginazators for the opportunity and for putting together such a great conference.  

The slides and code for my Mock It Baby! presentation our available on github

Mock It Baby

This years CF.Objective() was another great conference with deep content, good friends, and good food.  I enjoyed meeting so many new friends, catching up with old friends, and generally hanging out.

Just a reminder that CFObjective is almost here and also our slew of ColdBox trainings before this amazing conference.  This year we will be offering three courses and here is a little discount code for you guys: cboxrulez

CBOX 100 - Intro To Core ColdBox

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 manner that both gurus and novices can take advantage of our materials.

Syllabus:  http://www.coldbox.org/documents/courses/cbox100-CourseDatasheet.pdf

CBOX 203 - ColdBox Modules

CBOX-203 is one of our advanced courses dealing with ColdBox Modules, Architecture and Modularization spread in 2 intense training days. In this course you will learn all about modular architecture, planning and the power behind ColdBox Modules. You will have both theory and hands-on workshops that will sharpen your skills and challenge you.

Syllabus: http://www.coldbox.org/documents/courses/cbox203-CourseDatasheet.pdf

CBOX 204 - Testing, Mocking, Stubbing, Oh My!

CBOX-204 is one of our advanced courses that focus on testing principles, TDD (Test Driven Development), mocking and ColdBox application testing. In this 1-day course you will be exposed to testing theory, types of tests, working with MXUnit, application testing, tools of the trade and finally learn about Mocking and Stub objects. You will have both theory and hands on workshops that will sharpen your skills and challenge you.

Syllabus:  http://www.coldbox.org/documents/courses/cbox204-CourseDatasheet.pdf

There are still only a few seats left for our April Zurich Boot Camp, so hurry now and get some cool discounts: http://coldbox-zurich.eventbrite.com/?discount=bestfriends.  Also remember that if you purchase the bundle for all 3 courses, you get a cool Apple iPod Shuffle or a $50 Gift Card as a welcome gift!

The courses we will be offering are:

CBOX 100 - Core ColdBox

Intro to ColdBox is an intense 1 or 2 day training course that will get you started with ColdBox Application Development. This course focuses on the main aspects of ColdBox Development and it delivers a one-two punch to get you started. You will get hands on experience and an in-depth overview of the main development aspects of the ColdBox Platform as it is applied to MVC web development.

CBOX 203 - ColdBox Modules

CBOX-203 is one of our advanced courses dealing with ColdBox Modules, Architecture and Modularization spread in 2 intense training days. In this course you will learn all about modular architecture, planning and the power behind ColdBox Modules. You will have both theory and hands on workshops that will sharpen your skills and challenge you.

CBOX-204: Testing, Mocking, Stubbing, Oh My!

CBOX-204 is one of our advanced courses that focus on testing principles, TDD (Test Driven Development), mocking and ColdBox application testing. In this 1-day course you will be exposed to testing theory, types of tests, working with MXUnit, application testing, tools of the trade and finally learn about Mocking and Stub objects. You will have both theory and hands on workshops that will sharpen your skills and challenge you.