Mike Benner : ColdBox

Coldbox 2.6.0 Final Release

Jul 21 by Michael Benner

The time is here, Coldbox 2.6.0 Final is available. Some great features have been added to this already outstanding framework. Links to download and new features after the break.

May, The Craziest Month of the Year

May 15 by Michael Benner

You may have noticed that my posts have been light lately. Well let me say, May needs more than 31 days. Not only is my personal life swamped (Mother's Day, Wife's Birthday, Grandpa-in-law's Birthday, Daughter's Birthday, Brother's Birthday, 3 Friend's Birthdays, Daughter's Dance Recital, Daughter's Kindergarten Grad and moving cross country, oh yeah and a 1 week long business trip). Yup, I usually just take this month off, but this year the community has several exciting things going on. Here are a few things I am currently playing with.

OpenBD released, with a VMware image, Coldbox 2.6 Beta and ColdBricks Beta.

I have been

Coldbox 2.6.0 Beta 2 and My Week So Far

Apr 29 by Michael Benner

First, Coldbox 2.6.0 has gone "Beta 2". Go get it, I'll wait.

Back? Good, so I as I was saying my company is currently rewriting our

Luis has released ColdBox 2.6.0 Beta

Apr 21 by Michael Benner

Title says it, link (read more) has it.

Coldfusion rescued by PHP?!?!?!?

Mar 6 by Michael Benner

Say it isn't so...I had to install XAMPP on my MacBook Pro running 10.5.2 to get Coldfusion 8 running. Yeah, I know XAMPP has Apache and mySQL, but let's be honest, it was built to make PHP easier to install. So after finishing my RAID install (see earlier post) I took this opportunity to TRY and install CF8 (which never worked for me in since Leopard). So after reading

Whew!!! MVC Conversion Underway

Feb 27 by Michael Benner

Let me tell you changing frameworks is never easy. I have done it twice now. Once from a custom built internal framework to a "main stream" framework and now from an out dated framework to a "new" (at least for me) method and framework.

I think I am changing MVC from Model(database) View(layout) Controller(event handler)

Introspective

Feb 19 by Michael Benner

Well with Self Help comes introspection and I have had plenty of that this week. While I have not made great progress on the Coldbox based Sales Management and Issue Resolution modules, what I have accomplished has been a great change in how I am doing things. Normally

A Little Self Help

Feb 17 by Michael Benner

So, my business partner has been away for the last week and will be gone for another week. Normally this isn't a big deal, except this time I have decided to jump into his role for the time being. Normally, I just handle the tech side of our venture and write code for our packaged software and work on the custom app stuff, but this time I am handling the front lines of customer service and sales. This has brought up

When Is A Fork Not A Fork?

Jan 29 by Michael Benner

When it is a straight path with no branches. I know, that makes about as much sense as telling IIS that root path is X and Coldfusion that the root path is Y. What is worse X = Y, except when it doesn't...

Good, I think you are now officially as lost as I was earlier when trying to move my Coldbox site to a domain name on

ColdBox Works Out Of The Proverbial Box (Dare I Say Day 1)

Dec 3 by Michael Benner

I must say, sometimes I just feel like the stars align and it clicks. Then again, maybe it is just the hard work Luis put forth. As I said the other day, I watch the preso on ColdBox 2.5 and I thought I would give it a try. So before leaving for the airport I download CF8 developer edition and ColdBox 2.5 RC2. While at the airport I installed them both. I spent the next few hours reading "I Am Legend" and forgetting about the install. Then when I landed