In my original ColdBox 3 review, I mentioned that I would be starting a brief ColdBox Series to cover my experiences and any questions that came my way.

I have used the past few months to approach ColdBox in two different ways:

1. Existing Applications - Consider porting, or continuing development in ColdBox.  Like any re-factoring, there are pros and cons to this, the main part being cost in time, and fixing something that isn’t really broken.  So I wait for a reason to do it…
2. New Applications - I’m happy to say that I haven’t regretted using ColdBox for my new projects.  The few times I’ve felt I could get i it done quicker with a framework I already know and have some code built up in is quickly offset by realizing once I figure something out, it’s a one time thing.  Blog about it, and I have my search engine for “how did I do that again?”

This approach has had me learning and playing with ColdBox to learn the best way of how I want to do things, and why.  Along the way I have been writing posts (while coding) to quickly document any discoveries where the examples and documentation was found to be a bit lacking.  My idea was to come in later and ColdBox has excellent documentation but I have found that there could be a lot more examples provided to get developers up and running even quicker.

In the past few months I have written a few dozen tips/discoveries.

I thank everyone who has sent in their questions and responses, please keep them coming and I’ll get through them as best as I can.

I’ll publish this post to the blog but not advertise it until I have a solid few tips that I can publish on a regular basis.

My ColdBox 101: