The secrets of a system integrator. My Journey of Startup, Product + Project Development
Given that I’ve recently released some slides and material on building plugins / applications using the Mura FW/1 plugin, the demo gods continue to smile down on me, except in a good way this time.
One of the things I’m really liking about Mura is the number of very, very smart people who care about making Mura as easy and painless to use as possible to do amazing things. Many are developers who are outside of Blue River and it’s a testament to the team behind Mura as well the codebase.
The long and short of it is this: As we’re using Mura FW/1 plugin template, and plugins in general, we’re seeing some places we could enhance and have some benefit. One area is ensuring multiple Mura plugins can work and play side by side without little issue.
I had the chance to take part in a conversation with some of the Blue River team and a few of us heavy Mura Developers, and the result of that conversation was to implement a simple change to the official Mura FW/1 Plugin. There is a notable difference in the Mura FW/1 template moving forward should you download it moving forward from today: Instead of appending an ?action=CfcName.FunctionName, the action has been expanded to be [packagename]action=CFCname.FunctionName.
I had the pleasure of presenting at MuraCon 2011 last week in Sacramento, California. It was nice to put a face to so many names and get to know the Blue River Team behind Mura CMS much better, and start so many new friendships.
I presented two main Plugin topics for designers, developers and managers.
Why Plugins are important not just for you, but Mura,
How easy Plugins are to build for Mura using FW/1.
A few folks asked for the links from my presentation to start building their own quick plugin while attending Muracon. Below are the quicklinks I shared for accessing Mura and FW/1 resources to build your plugins.
Let’s talk after the last presentation of the day is is over to get your plugin released and on github!