A lot of people have been asking/waiting for a forums plugin for Mura CMS. Grant Shepert and the folks at Clever Technology have been working on one and I just noticed that Meld Forums for Mura is now available for purchase and download. Just thought I'd help spread the word a little. You can get it here.
One of the (many) ways ColdFusion 9 has made developers' lives easier is by not requiring us to write accessor and mutator methods ("getters and setters") in our components. By setting accessors="true" in a component and defining some properties, we can call getProperty() and setProperty() on the component without having to actually write the methods. Rupesh Kumar has a detailed blog post on this feature.
While this can be a great time saver and unclutters our components from all those getter and setter methods, the thing I wasn't too crazy about is that when we call a setter method, the value is put into the variables scope of the component.
Recently, Akash Bavlecha pointed out to me that the SyntaxHighlighter Mango Plugin that I built only worked when it was used in the main "content" field of a post/page. If he tried to use it in the "excerpt" field, it didn't work. Turns out that this was the result of an omission on my part which I didn't notice because I have yet to highlight code in an excerpt.
In any case, I have fixed this issue and version 2.0.1 of the plugin now works when used in both Content and Excerpt sections of posts or pages (which is the way it was meant to work from the beginning). If you downloaded the plugin before January 2, you should upgrade the plugin by using the same install URL as found at the bottom of the original post.
I apologize for any inconvenience and/or confusion this may have caused, and thanks Akash for alterting me to this!
One of ColdFusion 9's major new features is, of course, its built-in Hibernate-powered ORM capabilities. Ever since the CF9 public beta, there has been a lot of discussion about this feature in the CFML blogosphere. I have to say that this feature seems really cool from the standpoint of productivity and in the way CF9's implementation has simplified working with Hibernate. The notion of letting ColdFusion create and manage your database based on your object model without writing a single line of SQL fits right into ColdFusion's RAD philosophy.
I was working on a web site which uses Mura CMS. I needed to publish some videos on the site and instead of using my bandwidth, I decided to stream them from YouTube. I didn't see any way to do this with Mura out of the box, so I decided to code up a little plugin which I think others might find useful. This plugin enables you to embed videos from YouTube, Yahoo, Vimeo, or MetaCafe using a simple tag syntax which you can place right into Mura's WYSIWYG content editor.
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