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Team ColdBox is working on putting together a list of features for our 4.0 release. Before we finalize anything, we'd like to hear from you. Please give us your wishlist for the ColdBox Platform and what you'd like to see us work on. There's always items like documentation and additional screen casts, etc but let's focus specifically on what development items we can do to make ColdBox faster, easier, smarter, and flexible for YOU. No suggestion is too big or small. ColdBox Platform

• Core MVC
• WireBox
• LogBox
• CacheBox
• MockBox

I started a thread on the official ColdBox mailing list>, but I also want to open up comments for people not in the Google Group. Please leave a comment with your thoughts and suggestions.

There's only 1 week left before ColdBox Developer Week and the featured session this week is "MultiLingual (i18N) Solutions in ColdBox Platform" by Oğuz Demirkapı on July 24th. Read more about this featured session on the ColdBox Blog.

There's 2 weeks left before ColdBox Developer Week and the featured session this week is "Seamless ColdBox-Powered Rich Internet Applications" by Phill Nacelli on July 26th. Read more about this featured session on the ColdBox Blog.

If you currently use (or recently used) ColdBox, we want to know your thoughts. Take our quick, anonymous survey to tell us what you like or dislike about ColdBox and we'll put your name in for a drawing to win your choice of either an iPod Shuffle or a 1 hour consultancy with the creator of ColdBox, Luis Majano. http://blog.coldbox.org/blog/why-do-you-use-coldbox

I've been working with Luis and the rest of the ColdBox team for several years now. I was excited when Luis asked me to become a ColdBox team member last year, and now I have the privilege to bear the responsibility of the first ever ColdBox Platform Evangelist.

ColdFusion's getMetaData function is a very handy way to introspect the functions, properties, and annotations of a component in an easy-to-digest format of arrays and structs. ColdFusion even nests structs to represent the metadata of the classes your component extends as well. Recently, for an enhancement I was building for WireBox, the DI/AOP framework inside ColdBox, I wanted to be able to condense all the metadata down for the component in question as well as all the components it inherits from to a single list of functions, properties, and annotations. After a short bit of Googling, I didn't find any code that did that so I decided it was a perfect opportunity to write a function that did just that.

So, downloaded HotFix 1 for ColdFusion Builder 2 just now and tried to install it on my Windows 7 machine. InstallAnywhere started up, but then gave me the following error:
"Unable to execute the desired program.
Please get another copy of the installer and try again."

Just a quick reminder that the latest ColdBox Connection starts at Noon Central today. Luis will be talking about the new features of WireBox 3.1 which was just released as well as an in-depth explanation of of the new AOP implementation. AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming) is seriously cool stuff, so put your thinking caps on and come learn. You can't beat free ColdBox training! You'll find the meeting here:
http://experts.adobeconnect.com/coldbox-connection/ Update:
Here is the recording URL of the meeting:
http://experts.adobeconnect.com/p1vqmd7hiy1/

Just a friendly reminder about the ColdBox Connection meeting today at noon Central. ColdBox Connection is an online webinar that is held every two weeks by Team ColdBox to showcase a part of the ColdBox Platform and answer your questions. Today's is being hosted by Aaron Greenlee and will be discussing CacheBox, the enterprise caching framework which is baked into ColdBox as well as available as a separate utility for your existing apps. Here is the Connect room: http://experts.adobeconnect.com/coldbox-connection/ Hope you see you there!

In case you missed the ColdBox Connection webinar today and are dying to know all about LogBox, the enterprise logging library that can be used stand-alone or inside a ColdBox application, I have good news! Here is a link to the recording, my slide deck and most importantly ALL the sample code I used including the Pirate Log Formatter and the QR Code log appender.