The secrets of a system integrator. My Journey of Startup, Product + Project Development
The Mura gang over at Blue River have slotted me in to guest host a Mura Show!
The Mura show has been a big help for me in both of it’s formats when there’s a set topic and open help for anything I’ve been working on. Several times I learnt to solve or avoid problems I didn’t know I’d be having when someone else asked.
I’m going to walk through a basic introduction to using the Mura FW/1 Template Plugin. It’s been recently re-written and provides some cool functionality.
When migrating a site from Windows to Linux, we have some great (and valid) dreams about increased performance, lower Windows server overhead, etc….
There’s a few things I’ve come across that most often come up while migrating from Windows to Linux:
So sensitive. Remember ColdFusion was case in-sensitive in Windows…? Well, it still kind of is.. except where the code breaks.
Picky about paths. Remember not taking the time to learn how to properly program your file paths for uploads / directories? .. Yeah, time to repay that technical debt.
Following my post on finding a software startup idea, the next step is to pick one. I know, rocket science.
There’s a lot of great material out there on how to pick a startup idea that stands a chance of succeeding after you’ve found and made a list. Do your best to not get lost in a sea of reading. There will be no perfect decision, only a more informed one. (A great habit I have picked up is never, ever read anything that doesn’t have something to do with the exact current thing you’re working on in your project. Just bookmark it.)
A noble first goal is to validate that your idea is something customers are willing to pay for. Seth Godin summed it up beautifully in a blog post the other day about the two step process to find and pick an idea. Seth highlights how founders often don’t wander wide enough to examine a lot of ideas, and once they begin with an idea that might not be very good, become far too open and attached to it.
I’ll be working on a post for creating forms successfully in Mura CMS, one thing I ran into was a need to implement Captcha in Mura.
The Mura guys have a wonderful guide written up on how to use Mura’s built-in CFFormProtect captcha which has now been included with Mura since 5.1.130