Doug Boude (rhymes with 'loud')

Coldbox 101 Training Review

2009-11-17T10:33:00-05:00

This past weekend I had the privilege of attending Ortus Solution's Coldbox 101 training class in Grapevine, Texas. It is true that I did pay for the opportunity, but the price was obscured and more than justified by the quantity, quality, and cohesiveness of the knowledge that was shared. Coldbox's master architect himself, Luis Majano, was the instructor, and it was with the same level of zeal and attention to detail that

My Twelve Steps to a Coldbox App

2009-06-11T10:58:00-05:00

Yesterday I had the privilege of providing my first consultation job as an instructor on the subject of Coldbox. The team that hired me are at the stage in their project where they're ready to start writing code (database is designed, UML and usecase diagrams are complete, mockups have been created), and they wanted to "experience" my thought processes, the questions I ask myself, my approaches to implem

Presented My First Talk on ColdBox Tonight!

2009-02-04T00:41:52-05:00

In case anybody wanted to attend but was unable, I just wanted to make it known that I did present at the Alamo Area ColdFusion Usergroup meeting tonight on the topic of the ColdBox framework. I was given 45 minutes, and finished precisely within my time limits, except for a few questions at the end that I had to field.

A link to the recorded presentation can be found at UG TV ( My most recent project has caused me to have to be "unicode aware" at times (something I've never had to do before), and so I am learning a lot about encoding and display of special characters as I go along. My latest challenge related to this topic involved a User Manager section I created, wherein the users could very well have names that contain special characters (foreign names). This particular section performs it

Using Database-Driven Configuration Settings in Coldbox

2008-12-10T15:54:00-05:00

The Scenario: My Coldbox/Coldspring/Transfer application has settings that I want to make maintainable via a user interface. Now, the Coldbox.xml.cfm file does make provision for me to add as many custom settings as I want to my app, but I don't want to require the end user to know how to edit this xml file (nor would I trust them to). I came up with a solution to this challenge that I'm really hap

Coldbox Interceptors and Custom Interception Points Demystified

2008-12-07T02:32:28-05:00

Although ANYTHING you could ever want to know about coldbox is definitely in its documentation, I find that it is still necessary sometimes to have to piece things together bit by bit..."...line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:...." as the prophet Isaiah said... in order to fully comprehend them. In this post I'd like to share what I have distilled from the docs regarding the subject of usi

My First Excursion into using Ajax with Coldbox

2008-11-15T01:22:00-05:00

I had my first successful forray using Ajax in Coldbox today! After reading a LOT, checking out some examples, and then letting my natural developer's instinct take its course, I ended up with a design that left me really wondering if I had taken a wrong turn or had a moment of brilliance . As I said, it works great, but is it an ideal pattern to use or did I cross one of those invisible "development ethics" lines with

Using Variables in Coldspring.xml with Coldbox

2008-11-10T17:00:00-05:00

As you can tell from my last two posts, I am getting pretty deep into Coldbox used in conjunction with Coldspring. One of the things that Coldbox does for us is pass in our configuration settings to the Coldspring bean factory when it initially loads our beans (from Coldspring.xml), thus allowing us to use configuration variables, like so:

<bean id="transferFa

Basic Security in Coldbox using Transfer and Coldspring - Part II (of II)

2008-11-09T01:58:00-05:00

In the first post on this subject, I shared my 10,000 foot view of what pieces needed to go where in a Coldbox app in order to implement security. A lot of the code in that post was probably unfamiliar looking to many people (I know it would have been to me a couple of days ago!). So in this post I want to sh

Basic Security in Coldbox using Transfer and Coldspring - Part I

2008-11-09T00:30:00-05:00

There's no denying it: the plethora of documentation and examples that exist for the Coldbox framework is invaluable and undoubtedly covers every possible scenario to one degree or another. As I press on into a project where the use of Coldbox, Coldspring, and Transfer has been mandated to me, I'm finding that, despite the documentation and tutorials, I'm still having to search around and piece together for myself some of the in