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Getting your Apache URL rewrites working with Mura CMS

2, Jul 2011

Instead of having a link that says http://www.yoursite.com/siteid/index.cfm/about-us, I want it to be:

http://www.yoursite.com/about-us

Guest hosting the Mura Show tomorrow at 2 PM MST! Intro Using the Mura FW/1 Plugin to build features/apps

29, Mar 2011

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.

Where does a Mura Form post to?

27, Mar 2011

When working with Mura’s built in forms on the public side, there’s a few notes to self to keep in mind:

1) Mura’s public side (admin, built in display objects) are kind of legacy code. The code is well written and pretty straight forward to follow, but some of the conventions you might get used to on the plugin side of things aren’t quite the same. Fingers crossed that this can all be written as FW/1 logic eventually, but in the meantime, just know that tracing through display objects will be different than working on your own plugins.

Including custom headers in Mura CMS

27, Mar 2011

Sometimes we need to include a custom header in the HTML tags on just one page.

One example is caching. When it comes to making every browser do the same thing (not cache a page), we end up with a number of commands that need to be placed at the top of a page only when it shouldn’t be cached.

Here’s some tags that could belong in the head tag of a specific page… (I’m sure this can be accomplished much easier in another way but I picked the first example that came to my head)..

Logging out a user in Mura CMS

27, Mar 2011

This post is more of a quick note to self.. :)

Often, we’ll see http://www.mysite.com/siteid/index.cfm?display=something on our public site, say, when creating a new user profile.

When we want to log out that particular user, simply place a

Lessons learnt from migrating a ColdFusion site from Windows to Linux

14, Mar 2011

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.

Hello 2011, meet the future: ColdFusion, Mura CMS and Startups.

6, Jan 2011

I’ve built up a bit of a bad habit in the past year with my blog — I have dozens of draft posts that are near completion and need a bit more editing — I just never made the time to edit and post them.

It’s interesting looking back at all I wrote in 2010 and with the perspectives I ended up with at the end of 2010.

Here’s where I ended up: ColdFusion + Mura CMS + FW/1 Plugin Bundle = My web development nirvana. I haven’t been this happy with developing in years. It’s like discovering how easy ColdFusion made everything all over again, 12 years later.

How did this happen?

ColdFusion Builder request list

18, Jun 2010

I just saw the neatest feature in the Linux text editor VI.
All of the links in the code are surfable. You just drill in through the includes between all of your files. Very cool.
I wonder if there’s an extension to do this in CfBuilder, or from the Eclipse world?

Enable or disable RDS on a Coldfusion Server

29, May 2010

It’s well known that RDS shouldn’t be enabled on a production ColdFusion Server.

Over the years I haven’t been much of a user of RDS anyways so I usually just left it disabled.

Lately though RDS is starting to have a lot more value to me, I have been using ColdFusion’s Report Builder a lot more in addition to ColdFusion Builder itself, which use RDS a lot more to expose a lot of neat functionality.

Impressions of ColdBox 3.0

19, Dec 2009

Once you’re past why someone would develop a new program in ColdFusion, you find a rich community of developers, examples, libraries and frameworks.

I’ve been playing around with the ColdBox Framework for ColdFusion for a few months.

What lead me to ColdBox was a period of discovering and playing around with the discoveries I made with ColdFusion 9 and it’s killer Hibernate ORM integration.

I could no longer program, ever again until ColdFusion 9 came out.. it made for a slower fall on new projects. I decided to dust off the old exploration cap and started looking at what was new and developing in the ColdFusion world.


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