Below is a screenshot of my Railo Development server showing the change log for the latest development release (version 3.1.2.011).
Take special note of the last 3 tickets. That's right -- you can now write properties, components, and interfaces in full cfscript with the latest development release of Railo. Thanks to Sean Corfield for pointing my attention to this. Enjoy!
I recently had a chance to listen to the latest edition of the This Week in ColdFusion Podcast wherein design patterns are discussed. One of the design patterns that Brian Carr talks about in the podcast is the Decorator Pattern. As an example, Brian describes how you can use the dynamic nature of ColdFusion to assign a function to a variable and then add that function to an object at runtime (this is also known as "method injection"). Bob Silverberg, who was a guest on the podcast then asked Brian whether the injected method would show up in the object's metadata if you called the getMetaData() function on it. Brian didn't know for sure, but he and Bob agreed that it was unlikely. This piqued my curiosity, so I set about to test this myself.
I recently performed a minor update to my Embed Video Plugin for Mura CMS. One of the things this update addressed was a judge's comment from the Mura Plugin ColdFusion Throwdown contest, which basically pointed out that I didn't provide documentation for how the EmbedVideo tag could be used within a component (a Mura display component, not a CFC). Well, the original version actually couldn't be used within a Mura component. So I decided to do something about it and figured this would be a good opportunity to demonstrate how you can intercept and modify output in Mura using a plugin or your site's custom eventhandler.
Wow! I was so happy to find out today that won first place in the Mura Plugin ColdFusion Throwdown! My entry was my Embed Video Plugin. I have to say, that I was sort of surprised and humbled, especially since my little plugin was pitted against such a great list of other plugins that were submitted.
I know it's been very quiet here of late. I have a list of things I want to blog about, but between family time and client projects, it's been easy to put blogging low on the priority list. However, I have resolved to start managing my time to make more room for blogging and start crossing things off that list.
Two projects in particular (which I hope to be able to blog about soon) have been taking up a lot of my development time. One has me heavily into Mura CMS plugin development, and for the other I've been working with Railo CFC-based custom tags. I've been learning so much about both, so I have decided to submit a couple of topics for the upcoming CFUnited Conference.
CFUnited has opened topic voting to the public, so if you're interested in any of my topics, just go the the voting page and search for topics by Tony Garcia. There were a couple of other submissions on Mura plugin development, but I think I was the only one who had a topic on the CFC-based custom tags. It would be an incredible honor for me to speak at the conference, and I'll try my hardest to make it worth your while if I get to speak! Thanks!
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