Luis Majano has released ColdBox 2.6.0 Beta 1. There are a number of new features included in this release that are sure to make your development life even easier. It never ceases to amaze me how many great new features and improved "old" features Team ColdBox manages to fit into each release. You can download the latest release from the ColdBox Framework site. For full documentation, check the Trac site.

I don't know about you guys, but there are a number of simple, boring view files that are identical across multiple applications. One such example would be a standard user login form. Nothing fancy - it's the same on pretty much all websites. In the past I have always done the ol' copy/paste for these files and had them residing in the directory structure of each application that they were needed in. Well, thanks to ColdBox those days are now gone forever in QuackApps.

If you have not yet registered for cf.Objective(), hurry up and do so. Time is running out. If you have already registered, be sure to set your itinerary. Below is my tentative itinerary.

I've attended seemingly a million conferences over the years of my career, and had gotten to a point where they just really didn't do anything for me, so I quit attending. After about a 7 year break from any conferences, I decided to take a chance on cf.Objective(), because I felt that the material and the speaker lineup were stellar, and that the conference's primary agenda was education rather than corporate sales. I can unequivocally say that my assessment was 100% accurate.

Several years ago I had a major hard drive crash, and lost my former "big name" IDE. After asking around to see what was available, I was repeatedly referred to CFEclipse. While it took some getting used to at first (what "new" thing doesn't?), I have been off and running with it ever since.

Luis Majano recently announced that ColdBox 2.5.2 and the new website has been released. Be sure to check out the What's New? guide for all of the new features. Simply put, I continue to be amazed at how powerful a framework ColdBox is, and how pleasurable it is to build applications on it. Thank you again to Luis and Team ColdBox for all of your hard work!

Simple question: In terms of usage amongst the ColdFusion community, is Pownce dead? Sure seems to be to me. With CFCommunity, who needs it? I'm curious to hear your take on it.

While I've been writing ColdFusion for over 10 years now, I am a relative newcomer to the world of writing my own custom tags. I know, odd; but it is what it is. On occasion, I run into a particular behavior with <cfexit /> that perplexes me greatly, and I'm hoping that someone can help shed some light on it for me.

In my original post releasing the tag library I said that I'd post more as I had time to do so. I figured that today I'd take a short break from what I've been working on and write something up. First, I should point out that there have been a couple of changes made, so the download has been updated. Be sure to get the latest files. The changes mostly involve textareas: (a) I had forgotten to output the provided value, and (b) I updated the fieldset.cfm and field.

ColdBox 2.5 now has native support for Adam Fortuna's ColdCourse project. Man, this stuff is totally awesome! Prior to the last few days of digging into 2.5, I had only had a chance to casually glance at ColdCourse. Thanks to Luis Majano and Russ Johnson for working hard to get ColdCourse implemented. Now, instead of having a URL like this one...