Dec 23
Thanks to
Henrik Joreteg we have now our very own
ColdBox JSMin Compressor for js/css assets. This plugin is a cool java/coldfusion integration and will compress your css and js assets on the fly and produce compressed versions of your assets. It will also cache them and concatenate multiple assets into a single js/css file for even more optimizations. How easy?
<head>
#getMyPlugin("JSMin").minify('includes/js/myscripts.js','includes/js/jquery.js')#
#getMyPlugin("JSMin").minify('includes/css/site.css','includes/css/boxes.css')#
</head>So thanks Henrik, we now have
ColdBox JSMin and what would a plugin be without documentation :)
http://wiki.coldbox.org/wiki/Projects:JSMin-Compressor.cfm
Dec 11
Our
elastic servers have been updated with the latest Railo builds and we now offer an Amazon AMI that you can deploy easily. These virtual machines or cloud servers have the following installed in them:
VMWare ColdBox + Railo (Resin) Ultimate Dev Machine
Includes ColdBox nightly build, latest Railo, MySQL 5, git/svn, MXUnit, TransferORM, webmin, CruiseControl, Ant and so much more.
Amazon AMI ColdBox + Railo (Resin) Ultimate Dev Machine
Includes ColdBox nightly build, latest Railo, MySQL 5, git/svn, MXUnit, TransferORM, webmin, CruiseControl, Ant and so much more.
So enjoy them and get to work!
Dec 10
The Definitive Guide To The ColdBox Platform is now available as an e-Book, so get it now:
http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/the-definitive-guide-to-the-coldbox-platform/8063957See it in full color and linkable! I hope you enjoy these early Christmas Gifts, we really are working hard to make ColdBox shine during the holidays!
Dec 10
Let's learn how to use the paging carrousel plugin for ColdBox found in the ForgeBox directory. First of all, download the plugin and drop in your custom plugins folder.
Settings setup
Make sure that you setup the following settings in your application:
PagingMaxRows - The maximum number of rows to show per page. Defaults to 10
PagingBandGap - The gap to use in the paging carrousel. Defaults to 5
You can also override the settings on the plugin, by using the appropriate setter methods in the plugin.
Handler setup
In your handler event, my case 'forgeservice.entries' you will setup the paging boundaries and the data call using these boundaries. In my case, I have a model object that received the starting row and the maximum number of rows to return. The paging plugin assumes there will be an incoming request collection variables called "page". You do not need to param it or default it as the plugin does this for you. All you have to do is construct a nice link with a page holder once you render the paging carrousel. So to start just get the boundaries from the plugin:
// Get the paging boundaries, make sure there will be a "page" incoming variable, we use it to page.
rc.pageBoundaries = getMyPlugin("Paging").getBoundaries();
The previous call returns a structure with a startRow and maxRow element according to your settings and the page your are on. You can use this information to present information back to the user like, showing records X to Y, etc.
// Call your model object for data
rc.entries = forgeService.getEntries(orderBy=rc.orderBy,
typeSlug=rc.typeSlug,
startrow=rc.pageBoundaries.startRow,
maxrows=getMyPlugin("Paging").getPagingMaxRows());
The next tricky part is to get the total count with no paging on it. I have another method that does this for me, but this can be done in any approach you prefer.
// Get total entries count
rc.entriesTotal = forgeService.getEntriesTotal(typeSlug=rc.typeSlug);
View Setup
That's it for the handler code, now let's render the paging carrousel. For this make sure you have the correct css setup for it. The following are what is needed for the paging css:
.pagingTabs - The div container
.pagingTabsTotals - The totals
.pagingTabsCarrousel - The carrousel
Here is my sample css:
.pagingTabs{
font-size: .8em;
text-align: left;
margin: 20px 10px 15px 10px;
}
.pagingTabs a{
color: #000;
padding: 2px 4px;
background-color: #fff;
border: 1px solid #ccc;
margin-left: 2px;
}
.pagingTabs a:hover{
color: #000;
background-color: #FCF9C3;
border: 1px solid black;
}
.pagingTabs a.selected{
color: #000;
background-color: #FCF9C3;
border: 1px solid #AF3D15;
}
.pagingTabsCarrousel{
margin-top:5px;
}
Now I can render it in my views:
#getMyPlugin("paging").renderit(foundRows=rc.entriesTotal,link=event.buildLink('forgebox/page/@page@')#
That's it! I tell the paging plugin what is the link to attach to my carrousel and then pass a placeholder variable for my page: @page@. This renders the carrousel and correct links.
Dec 9
Assembla has just blogged about our migration and you can find their article in their blog section:
http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/11278/Featured-Open-Source-Project-the-ColdBox-ColdFusion-Platform.aspxI cannot say how satisfied we are with moving all our development initiative for ColdBox and CodexWiki to
Assembla. It has really proven to be a great migration and hopefully a great partnership in the future. We will be launching a
ColdBox+ColdFusion template on their Assembla catalog real soon that will help developers/companies get a quick start on developing ColdBox applications with all kinds of developer, collaboration tools, server deployments, elastic server integrations and much more. Assembla offers free open source spaces that developers can benefit from and don't forget that we even offer the
ColdBox Community space that all the community can collaborate on and then publish their works on
ForgeBox.
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