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Mach-II BoF at CFUnited - Thursday July 29 - 6:30-7:30 in Conant

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:33:00 -0700

Just a quick reminder that there is Birds of a Feather session for Mach-II at CFUnited this year. This BoF is hosting by our very own Kurt Wiersma.

When: Thursday, July 29th from 6:30 - 7:30

Where: CFUnited - Conant

Whether or not you are a user of Mach II consider attending this discussion about Mach II and building object orientated applications. We will chat about the news on the latest features in 1.8 and 1.9 releases, how to get started learning the framework and OO programming, and where Mach II is headed in the future. We will also share tips, tricks and resources for using Mach II to build powerful CF applications. We would love to hear how you have used the framework to build cool applications. We value the community's feedback about Mach II and look forward to seeing you there.

We've recently committed some great features into Mach-II Integrity (1.9) such as metadata based REST support where you code in CFML not XML! Thanks to Doug Smith and the guys at Dave Ramsey for working with us to create a killer new feature for Mach-II. If you looking to do REST based services in the future, this BoF is not to miss!

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FAQ: How-To Clear Your Template Cache in Adobe CF, OpenBD and Railo

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:35:00 -0700

Yet another successful colaboration has occurred to get an FAQ setup for Mach-II on how to clear and shut off your template cache in Adobe CF, OpenBD and Railo. Be sure to check it out on the wiki:

How To Clear Your Template Cache - Instructions for Adobe CF, OpenBD and Railo

We're using Twitter to now help us broadcast small items that the community can help the project with. So if you're interested, be sure to help us out. No account is necessary to contribute - our wiki is anonymous write access:

Help us add examples using Listeners via <notify> and <publish> commands on the wiki. Anon write access: http://is.gd/cBG1q

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Experiment: Using Twitter to farm out wiki work load for small contributions

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:32:00 -0700

I had an interesting idea today for the Mach-II wiki. We have TO-DO tags on wiki entries that need additional content. Why not broadcast an URL each day asking for somebody to contribut content for that block in the wiki? So the experiment ensued! I broadcasted the first tweet about this for a short "how-to" and already had Todd Rafferty to respond and fill in that section. Considering as a success, I've broadcasted another one:

Help us add examples using Listeners via <notify> and <publish> commands on the wiki. Anon write access: http://is.gd/cBG1q

So get cracking on that entry -- maybe this is a new avenue for us to get people more involved in the wiki! Help us make this a success.

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My favourite application framework in the ColdFusion world: Mach-II (via Nukleos)

Thu, 27 May 2010 13:33:32 -0700

Mach-II is my favourite application framework in the ColdFusion world, and yesterday Mach-II version 1.8 was released. At work I have been developing my own additions to a much older version of Mach-II, to facilitate the development of our own intranet apps. I guess I’ll have a lot of catching up to do with all the new stuff that has been added in versions 1.6 and 1.8. Aaah, if only the days were longer (but then we would be working longer too, of course ;-)…

via nukleos.wordpress.com

Thanks for the kind words from Wouter about Mach-II being his "favourite" framework in CFML. Team Mach-II was excited to learn that Mach-II is being used at Dexia for development of intranet applications. Dexia is a large financial institution (6 billion euros in revenue) based in Belgium.

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Claiming Mach-II on Technorati

Thu, 27 May 2010 00:02:00 -0700

Technorati has changed it's way you can claim a blog on the network. So here isthe authorization post.

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BOF on Mach II at CFUnited 2010

Wed, 26 May 2010 13:25:15 -0700

We have another BOF posted on the schedule!
BOF: Mach II - We are Community Driven
Whether or not you are a user of Mach II consider attending this discussion about Mach II and building object-orientated applications. We will chat about the news on the latest features in 1.8 and 1.9 releases, how to get started learning the framework and OO programming, and where Mach II is headed in the future. We will also share tips, tricks and resources for using Mach II to build powerful CF applications. We would love to hear how you have used the framework to build cool applications. We value the community's feedback about Mach II and look forward to seeing you there.
This BOF will be hosted by Kurt Wiersma on Thursday, July 29th at 6:30 pm. Make sure to add this in to your schedule!
Kurt will also be presenting on Real World ColdSpring and Setting up a Solid Local Development Environment.
Happy scheduling!

via cfunited.com

We encourage everybody to add this to your schedule. Kurt will have some really cool stuff to show off to all of you!

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Mach-II Simplicity (1.8) CFC API Reference Documentation Available

Mon, 24 May 2010 20:21:00 -0700

Team Mach-II is proud to announce the availability of Mach-II Simplicity CFC API reference documentation. Special thanks to the CFC.Doc open source project for offering the tool we use to generate the documentation. Now is the time to bookmark the online version or download the PDF or HTML zip versions.

Online: http://www.mach-ii.com/cfcdocs/1-8-0/index_frames.html

PDF: http://www.mach-ii.com/cfcdocs/1-8-0/Mach-II_1-8-0_CFCDoc.pdf

HTML Zip: http://www.mach-ii.com/cfcdocs/1-8-0/Mach-II_1-8-0_CFCDoc.zip

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Yearly Retrospective with Ways to Get Involved! Be a Community Steward.

Fri, 21 May 2010 09:49:56 -0700

The past year has been a busy year for the project. We thought it might be important to highlight a few big milestones for us:

Team Mach-II has added three new members (Adrian, Brian and Mike)
We released Mach-II Simplicity (1.8) and started work on Mach-II Integrity (1.9) all while keeping Mach-II 1.8.1 (maintenance release) in the wings getting ready to go.
We migrated to a new account at Codesion with custom domains for Trac and SVN. This means all of our URLs changed so check that out.
We moved our blog here to Posterous so more of the team can post and in the future we will be accepting posts from the community via moderation (future post to come).
Fellow team member Brian FitzGerald started an awesome MachStart screencasts series available on Vimeo.

We wanted to get more of the Mach-II community involved and there are ways you can help the project.

If you are a serious Mach-II user and you want to help steer future enhancements and features, then you need to join the Mach-II Framework Development Google Group. This is a different list from our normal Mach-II Users Google Group. The framework development list is low traffic so don't worry about receiving a ton of messages. It's a great way to see some of the stuff we talk about "behind the scenes."
Be a guest contributor to the Mach-II Blog. This is one of the reasons why we decided to move to Posterous for our blog because it offers guest posting via moderation. We have not set up our guidelines for contributing, but we'll do that soon and blog on how you can be the next new MachStar on this blog. Start thinking about what interests you with Mach-II. This can be quickstarts, tips, tricks or even full tutorials. No contribution to the blog is too small. If you have questions, feel free to ping us at (team {at} mach-ii.com) with query and we'll respond ASAP.
Test out our nightly builds for the framework and the dashboard. They are not so nightly but they are updated when new features are put into the framework. You can see the latest nightlies at http://www.mach-ii.com/nightly/

That's our short list of ideas for you to become a good community steward of the project. Like Smokey Bear says "Only YOU can foster Mach-II development!" or if you don't help -- who will?

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Nice Mach-II Kudos from Team DaveRamsey.com

Fri, 07 May 2010 13:23:53 -0700

We have been a Mach-II shop for several years, but we recently rebuilt our primary web site, daveramsey.com, into a 50 module Mach-II 1.8 application. We’ve found Mach-II to be an extremely powerful Model-View-Controller framework that enables us to support our growing number of users. It provides a foundation we can build on that has helped us to roll out new features quickly, without compromising a strong MVC design. (I also had the honor of meeting team Mach-II at BFusion, and found Peter, Kurt, and Matt to be an outstanding group of committed, brilliant developers. We reviewed their work on Mach-II 1.8 while we were developing our new website, and found their code to be among the best ColdFusion code around. They set the bar for outstanding quality and community support.)

via webmonkeyswithlaserbeams.wordpress.com

Can't thank the fine folks at DaveRamsey.com enough for the kind words about Mach-II. We really enjoy working with those guys and they give us amazing feedback and suggestions, so it truly is a collaborative relationship. Working with our amazing users is the #1 thing that makes Mach-II better!

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Mach-II Screencast on Templating in a Mach-II Application (Part I)

Tue, 04 May 2010 06:46:00 -0700

Greetings Mach-II users, fans, and lovers! We're pleased to announce the newest addition to our MachStart Screencast series. In this series, Brian FitzGerald of team Mach-II shows you just how easy it is to skin your Mach-II application. In this video, we look at how to grab any HTML template and apply it to your application, touch on the new View Loaders feature made available in Mach-II 1.8, take a look at Mach-II subroutines, and more! If you're new to Mach-II, don't miss this video!

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Our New Infrastructure URLs: Blog / Trac / SVN

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:34:00 -0700

We've moved our Trac / SVN to a new account at Codesion which allowed us to have custom domains as well as expanded services. Be sure to update your bookmarks now!

Trac -> http://trac.mach-ii.com/machii
SVN -> http://svn.mach-ii.com/machii

If you previously had an user account for Trac, you will be getting a new email with your user and password information. Check your email inbox for information. If you don't have credentials, we'd love to see you showing the commitment that means we can make you a committer and have you join in.

Contributing -- Craig R. McClanahan -> http://is.gd/bO4pW
Understanding Open Source -- Cameron Riley -> http://is.gd/bO4ph

Team Mach-II will now be blogging at Posterous. This will make blogging easier for us as well add heavier integration to social services. We'll leave our old blog up for archival purposes (a link to the archive is included in our "About Us" section below). Posterous has a blogging platform and nice features for group and community blogging so we'll be soliciting for posts from our great community. We'll talk about it more in a future blog post.

Blog -> http://blog.mach-ii.com
Blog RSS / Atom ->http://feeds.feedburner.com/machii

Happy Mach-II-ing!

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