Objective Bias

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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One of Mura CMS's nifty features is the Class Extension Manager. From the Mura docs, this tool "allows you to create 'attribute sets' of strictly-typed data which extend the base types (users, pages, portals, etc.)." Basically, with it you can create subtypes of content (or user) types and "extend" them with custom attributes if the need arises. For an example of how to use this tool, check out this post in the Mura forums.
While working with Mura, one of the things I discovered is that Mura's built-in search component only searches in the default fields of content objects.

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Due to a trademark challenge, Blue River Interactive recently changed the name of their open source ColdFusion CMS from Sava to Mura. It seems like the name change was reflected in the codebase with the 5.1 release (for example, the "sava5" directory was renamed "mura"). I recently upgraded a couple of my sites from Sava V5.0 to Mura 5.1. I went through the steps I'd always taken to upgrade the CMS code but then quickly realized that a few extra steps were needed because of the name change. If anyone is having trouble, I just wanted to point out that the folks at Blue River updated their upgrade instructions on the Mura site to include these extra steps. Just go down to the bottom of the page you'll see an "Upgrading from Sava" section.

I've been working with Sava CMS lately and ran into an issue with how content images are displayed. First, let me be clear that I'm NOT talking about images that are uploaed via the integrated FCKEditor that Sava uses for content editing. Sava also lets you attach an image to a content node via an upload field when you're adding/editing content:

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I've mentioned before how impressed I am with Sava, an open source ColdFusion CMS released by Blue River Interactive. In my spare time, I've been tinkering with it quite a bit, but now I am really looking forward to an upcoming project in which I will be knee-deep in Sava.

One of the cool things about Sava is how it's been designed to be extended and integrated with third party code.

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