Raúl Riera and I collaborated on a new tutorial in the reference guide called Wheels, AJAX, and You. The tutorial discusses 3 different ways to request and receive data from the controller using asynchronous JavaScript.
While much of this may be standardized in future releases of Wheels, this tutorial gives you some fairly simple options for integrating AJAX functionality into your Wheels 1.0.x applications today.
As I posted earlier, ColdFusion on Wheels had some community presence at CFUnited 2010, the final year for the conference. There were a lot of great moments during the conference, a few of which I’ll highlight in this post. Read the rest of this entry »
Representatives from the ColdFusion on Wheels community are mingling around at CFUnited 2010, which was just kicked off by Adobe’s keynote. If you’re around at the conference, come say hi to myself, Mike Henke, and Chaz Chumley.
The 3 of us will be giving 3 different presentations about Wheels on Thursday afternoon:
If you run across us, we’re giving out some awesome t-shirts designed by Raul Riera and his dev shop, Hipervinculo. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s my pleasure to announce the release of ColdFusion on Wheels version 1.0.5. Upgrade now to increase the stability of your codebase.
We noticed that there were quite a few bugs being squashed in the 1.1 cycle, so we back-ported most of them into the 1.0.x codebase, and that’s how 1.0.5 was born.
The CHANGELOG lists 23 bug fixes, many reported by the community. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, another great cf.Objective() is over. I am still in overdrive, so it is perfect time to post about the Wheels presentation.
The first part focused on the ideas behind Wheels. Convention Over Configuration (CoC), Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY), and Model View Controller (MVC), and Simplicity.
The second part, went over how Wheels works, server request are handled, understanding the Operation Trail (URL), and the File Structure. This part we started by creating the normal, say controller, hello action but starting from the view, then working to the controller. This was done to show how easy prototyping can be accomplished.
cf.Objective() starts today and goes till April 24. The conference is being held at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, MN. Several pre-conference courses were being held the last couple days.
Mike Henke will be presenting “ColdFusion on Wheels, Inspired by Ruby on Rails” on Friday, April 23th at 4:15 in the Nicollet C room of the hotel. Find Mike at cf.Objective() and show him the wallpaper on your computer or the blog badge on your site and he’ll give you a free t-shirt while supplies last.
You can see and download the different wallpaper and badges psd/jpg files here.
Today we’re releasing ColdFusion on Wheels version 1.0.4. This release fixes another round of bugs and adds more stability improvements.
Download it now, replace the wheels folder with the new one, and reload your application. If you’re upgrading from a version earlier than 1.0, follow these instructions. Read the rest of this entry »
If you haven’t been keeping up the Wheels Screencast, now is a great time. We are up to 10. Starting with Episode 1: Setting up ColdFusion on Wheels and currently ending with Episode 10: Displaying Sets of Records in between we cover routes, flash, authentication, object validation, and more.
ColdFusion on Wheels will be giving away a limited number of How’s My Coding? t-shirts at cf.Objective. In the spirit of upcoming conferences and love for Wheels, Chaz Chumley has made How’s My Coding? wallpaper and blog images.
cf.Objective(), April 22-24, and CFUnited, July 28-31, will have Wheels sessions so register, attend our sessions, and say Hi. Read the rest of this entry »
Another maintenance release has been put up, including 13 bug fixes and improvements. Download ColdFusion on Wheels 1.0.3 to add more stability to your code base.
As always, if you’re already using Wheels 1.0.x, then the upgrade path is simple. All you need to do is replace the wheels folder and reload your application. Testing before pushing live probably isn’t a bad idea either. 
Thanks to the community for continuing to work together to build the best framework for CFML, period.
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