The ColdBox CBOX-101 Training Seminar is happening in about two weeks in Ontario, California.  There are still seats available for the training and we are announcing a special promotion for today & tomorrow ONLY!!

Get a $200 discount on the normal standard price of $1100 for about 30 hours ONLY!! So if you are interested in this promotion, then book your ticket using the following discount code: CBOXROCKZ

Or you can go directly to purchase it via this link: http://coldbox.eventbrite.com/?discount=CBOXROCKZ

So get your ticket and come and learn all there is to know about the ColdBox Platform.

I totally forgot to blog about this, but an update to the ColdBox Help & Reference Eclipse plugin has been released.  This is version 1.1.0 of the eclipse plugin and it includes much more help content right from within eclipse.  It includes the new javadoc style API, some getting started guides and much more.

So please follow the update instructions to get updated.

After a few months of intense testing and development on 2.6.2, we have released yet another maintenance release version 2.6.3.  This version tightens up the new features introduced into 2.6.2 and actually did more optimizations and cleanup.  So you will see that the core size has actually been reduced in this release (Go figure!!).  We have also introduced some nice enhancements to the new features introduced in 2.6.2 and you can read all about it in the What's New Document for 2.6.3.  You can also read all about the fixes and optimizations in our Latest Release Notes.

We introduced new model integration features that will let you talk to model objects, persist them and yes, autowire them. 2.6.2 introduced a brand new dependency injection framework based on metadata (annotations) and a cool DSL (Domain Specific Language). Anyways, you can check out all the great stuff introduced in 2.6.2 by visiting our What's New Document for 2.6.2.

This release is mostly a maintenance fix with a few sparkles such as:

1. Added more model integration control settings:
   
   
   
   1. ModelsObjectCaching to let you cache or not the model objects when created. Great for development
   
   
   2. ModelsDebugMode an easy way to turn on/off global model debugging messages
   
   
   3. ModelsSetterInjection an easy way to turn on setter injection for your model objects
   
   
   4. ModelsDICompleteUDF an easy way to override the default UDF name to call when injection is finalized.
   
   
   5. ModelsStopRecursion a nice list of class names to make the factory stop recursion when its looking for dependencies


2. New setting for using ColdSpring or LightWire: IOCFrameworkReload. This little puppy will let you reload the factory when working in development, so you don't have to be constantly reiniting everything just to see changes in your beans.
   


3. The transfer loader interceptor can now also register the ColdBox Transfer Dependency Injector Observer for you. Just add some more properties and voila!!


4. ColdBox under J2EE app servers could not be better. ColdBox will now autodect j2ee contexts and adapt to them for ses and AppMapping localizations


5. The logger plugin has been updated thanks to Paul Marcotte by introducing several utility methods like: warning(),error(),info(), etc. And we also added a new setting called "DefaultLogLevel" that can be set to log only certain type of messages if needed. Thanks Paul and the crew


6. Tons of fixes and optimizations so read the What's New Now!

I am glad to announce that we will be holding a pre-conference training at CFUnited 2009.  This pre-conference class is based on the CBOX-100 : Intro to ColdBox course.  Below you can find information about the course and how to register.

What is CBOX-100?
Intro to ColdBox is an intense 1-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.

Event Details: http://www.coldboxframework.com/index.cfm/events/cfunited-2009-cbox100
Registration: https://secure.teratech.com/training/classReg.cfm?TrackID=361

Pre-conference classes are a separate cost from the main CFUnited event.

Location:

Lansdowne Resort and Conference Center.

Date:

August 11, 2009

Hours:

9:00am - 5:30pm

Food:

Breakfast, Lunch, and fully replenished snacks and beverages are provided throughout the day.

Cost:

$549

Seats per class:

20

Extras

• Free wireless Internet
• Includes all materials and Certificate of Completion
• ColdBox Schwag
  

Just an announcement that the Early Bird Pricing for ColdBox Training ends this Friday at 5pm Pacific.  After that, you will get the standard training price.  I would recommend you register this week so you can take advantage in over $250 in savings.

This training is based on our flagship training course: CBOX-101: Core ColdBox.  This course is 2 Days of intense ColdBox and Enterprise Application Development Training, that will help you not only get ColdBox Trained but also help you plan and architect enterprise ColdFusion applications.