Objective Bias

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.

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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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