Bad things happen when you include Blackboard’s JARs in your building block’s WAR file.

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.