Create Bash aliases in the Blackboard Dev VM to use as shortcuts to common commands.

Using Enums with Blackboard's built-in ORM framework.

When developing Building Blocks for Blackboard that use 'External Queries', the cache can be a real pain but it can be disabled for development purposes.

Stepping through the process for adding the required fields for a Blackboard extension to your bb-manifest file.

A provisioning script to make it easier to re-provision your Blackboard vagrant VM.

Creating a Smart View for a Group with the Blackboard API requires jumping through a few hoops.

Blackboard provides a Vagrant VM for developer, but some settings should be changed to make it more useful. Updated for the October 2014 release.

Blackboard's Building Block API provides a mechanism for creating and managing custom database entities.

You can use Blackboard's built-in ORM framework with your own custom beans.

You can use Blackboard's built-in ORM framework for accessing the database instead of using Hibernate, JDBC, etc.