Okay, I admit it. I'm a WinDoze guy. I even have the property patch. Well, kinda. When it comes to me being the server administrator, it has to be WinDoze. Sorry boys and girls, but I don't come from a network background, or even a programming background, so I like point-and-click. I'm comfy in that realm. Start talking shells and all of those other "big words" that pertain to *nix, and I'm lost.

Luis Majano announced that ColdBox 2.6 RC2 is now available. Check out the following diagram of this awesome application platform: If you're still on the fence about ColdBox, I urge you to download and take a serious look.

The other day I announced the v2 release of the Uni-Form Custom Tag Library, which contains a number of enhancements and jQuery plugin integrations. One thing *very* important detail that I forgot to mention: If you are using the Validation plugin, you *must* use jQuery 1.2.2 or higher. As long as you are using the current release you are fine, since it is at 1.2.6 as of this posting. If you use anything 1.2.1 or earlier, you will have all sorts of JavaScript errors being thrown.

Back in the ColdBox 2.5.1 release, a new feature was added: persist. Think of it as a sort of "flash memory", allowing your application to "remember" event variables when moving the user to the next event. I was recently asked about this feature, so I figured I would make a quick post about it in an effort to help more people.

Amcom Technology, a software development house based in the San Francisco Bay Area just announced their move to ColdBox. As an avid ColdBox supporter and user myself, I am happy to hear of more people coming on board.

It's been almost six months now since I released v1 of the library, so I figured it was high time I make time to add some enhancements. Here's a quick overview of the new features: Integrated dependencies Integrated support for the following jQuery plugins Date Picker Time Entry Input Masking Validation Path Configuration Let's look at some of the new goodies in more detail...

Awhile back I posted about ColdCourse Integration in ColdBox, and how easy it is to use SES (or "pretty") URLs with ColdBox. Today I was taking a peek at the What's New in ColdBox 2.6 documentation, and down at the very bottom I spotted something that seems so trivial, but is so totally cool that I wanted to be sure to highlight it.

I've mentioned before that I <3 ColdBox and that I <3 jQuery. Independently of one another, they are just a pleasure to work with. Today I decided to write my first-ever jQuery-powered AJAX functionality inside a ColdBox-powered application. It's ridiculously simple to do - one might even say sinful. So easy in fact, that I decided to post a quick "tutorial" on how to handle a pretty common task with ColdBox and jQuery.

Okay, so I said that I would try and post about the various cf.Objective() sessions. Key word: try. As you've probably figured out, I didn't manage to do so. However, this year I did make it to all the morning sessions that I intended to make it to, which certainly was not the case last year. No, not hung over. I'm nocturnal by nature, and I'm usually in bed asleep in the morning hours, so making it to the morning sessions is a helluva chore.

Well, tomorrow I'm off to Minneapolis for the 2008 installation of cf.Objective(). As I mentioned previously, cf.Objective() is the only conference that I attend. I will try to blog about the sessions I'm in, but I make no promises. Of course, if it's a really boring session, I should be able to make lots of posts.