Open Source, Digital Asset Management, Media Asset Management

Within our application we make full use of the latest FuseBox release together with ColdFusion 8 and the integrated Ajax functionality.

Lately we have been working on a "bug" where the language (when switched) is stored in a session variable and the pages displayed accordingly to the selected language. Now, what has happened is that the session variable has been set, but the pages did not display in the selected language.

First off, we thought that the session variables have been lost or the cftokens not passed correctly. But then after a while we figured that when one refreshes the cache of the browser the pages show in the correct language.

Thus it all boiled down, that we had to tell the browser not to cache the pages. this we achieved with the <cfheader> tag, like;

<cfheader name="Expires" value="#GetHttpTimeString(Now())#">

<cfheader name="CACHE-CONTROL" value="NO-CACHE, no-store, must-revalidate">
<cfheader name="PRAGMA" value="#GetHttpTimeString(Now())#">

Now, the pages reflect the language change correctly and we are all happy again.

Sean Corfield announced that he will release FuseBox 5.5 on December 1st. If you want you can go ahead and download the public Beta Version of 5.5 already over at the FuseBox site.

Sean said that he is still looking for more beta testers since there are only a couple of bugs reported. Well Sean, we have been running our applications with FuseBox 5.5 for some time now and I have to say that there are no serious bugs around. Nice job of what I like to think the best framework around for ColdFusion.

Fusebox 5.5 Alpha 2 is now available as a download from the files section of the Fusebox 5 mailing list on Yahoo! Groups.

You can read the up-to-date release notes (PDF, 188Kb) to see what's available in the new release! The release notes cover all of the major new features (XML is optional, circuits can be CFCs, dynamic "do", Application.cfc integration) as well minor enhancements (XFA support via the event object, official support for assertions, stack traces for exceptions in the debug trace, new "shortcut" methods on myFusebox) and bug fixes.