ColdBox 2.6 is out! Loads of new features, so don't wait and download now.

Here is the  ColdBox 2.6 press release.

Thanks Luis, for your hard work and dedication!

You want to become a ColdBox veteran?

Luis Majano and other qualified ColdBox trainers give seminars in Dallas on October 4-5, 2008.

Register now and get a Early-Bird discount!

Luis released ColdBox 2.6. RC2.

Tons of new GOODIES so Check it out now!

Again, Luis didn't sleep for a couple of weeks and here is the result.

What's new in Coldbox 2.6.0

If you want more...... read the release notes

Remember....... USE COLDBOX IN YOUR NEXT PROJECT! ......and don't forget to use TRANSFER too! 

BTW Sana did a lot of testing.....so he didn't got much sleep either.

Jim Priest has a really nice wiki focussed on using Ant.

Check it out

This weekend I had a ColdSpring singletons caching problem. Like all caching problems, sometimes they occur, sometimes they do not......pfff......very difficult to reproduce.

ColdSpring threw errors on the method addBeanToSingletonCache in abstractBeanFactory.cfc. This method tries to store a singleton object in cache and if already exists, throws an error.

I asked Luis for help on this and he came up with the following answer/solution:

It seems that ColdSpring 1.1 had errors of that sort. I would try the 1.2 nightly build. What happens is that ColdSpring caches whenever a bean says singleton=true.  Now, you can go into ColdBox advanced mode and use IOCObjectCaching.  This basically means that all objects produced from ColdSpring become cached in the coldbox cache. So for example, in ColdSpring you say singleton=false, so ColdSpring just produces it, then on  the cfcomponent metadata, you set the cacheTimeout=0 so it becomes a singleton in the coldbox cache. Then whenever you call for it from the ioc plugin, you just get it from the ColdBox cache and not ColdSpring anymore.

Luis' solution works like a charm. All caching is done by ColdBox now!!

Just updated the ColdBox Spry plugin.

New features:

- White space management

- JS output minified

Download ColdBox Spry Plugin version 1.5 

If you are using ColdBox and you want to use the whole WebCharts3D library, this plugin is yours!!

CFCHART tag is nice for simple graphs, but for complicated charts you need something like JFreeChart or the WebCharts3D library, which is included in ColdFusion. 

Raymond Camden blogged about using the WebCharts3D library back in januari. The plugin is based on this article.

WebChart3D ColdBox PLUGIN  (Europe sample included)

WebChart3D Manual

30 days evaluation Eclipse plugin for WebCharts3D

With WebCharts3D you can produce charts like:

Working with MySQL databases?

Check out the Beta release of MySQL Workbench !!!!

Check out the nightly build of ColdBox.

http://www.coldboxframework.com/downloads/nightlybuild/coldboxNB.zip

You can post your suggestions or questions about my Transfer Sample in the ColdBox forums.

Luis keep on rocking!