Entries for month: August 2009

Really Psyched for RIA Unleashed: Boston Conference!

AIR , ColdFusion , Conferences , Flex 1 Comment »

From all the blog posts on the subject, it seems like CFUnited was an awesome conference this year. Unfortunately I was unable to go. However, all is not lost. Brian Rinaldi has put together what is looking to be an amazing one-day conference on November 13 -- RIA Unleashed: Boston!

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Searching on Extended Attributes in Mura CMS Using the Feed API

ColdFusion , CFML , Mura CMS 3 Comments »

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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SyntaxHighlighter Mango Plugin

ColdFusion , Mango Blog , CFML 36 Comments »

Note: This version of the SyntaxHighlighter plugin has been deprecated. I've left this post up for purely historical documentation. The new version works in a COMPLETELY different manner so disregard this entire post. For info on the latest version and the download, go to this post.

I've been using SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript code formatter for my blog posts. They way I integrated it into my blog was by basically hacking my Mango installation. I hard-coded the script calls in my Mango skin and I also added the syntaxhl TinyMCE plugin to my blog post editor in the admin (manually changing the TinyMCE configuration in the process). I recently upgraded my Mango installation to the latest version (1.3.1) which, of course, wiped out a lot of the hacks for the SyntaxHighlighter functionality (which, of course is the main downside to this way of doing things). I've been meaning to get more into Mango plugin development, so I saw this as an opportunity to write my first Mango plugin. So I present to you the SyntaxHighlighter Mango Plugin.

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