Wheels announced a Wheels Litepost Learning Contest on January 25. The contest consisted of creating a simple Litepost blogging application using Wheels.

Two five minute screencasts were provided to help people get started.

Goal

Fun exercise to learn Wheels for newbies and chance to win an Amazon Gift card.

Prize

Grand Prize (one): $50 $100 Amazon Gift card

Runner Up Prizes (two): $25 $50 Amazon Gift card

Everyone: Free one year Mini Hosting Plan at Alurium Hosting (over $40 value)

Grand Prize Winner is

Aaron Wells

Blog Working Example

Source Code

Runner Up Winners are

Cathy Shapiro

Source Code

Ryan Stille

Source Code

Comments

"This has been a great exercise for me and has really made me more comfortable with the framework."

"This is my first ever project in Wheels, and I was thrilled about the contest since it gave me a deadline. "

"So far I've found this to be a pretty neat framework. I see a lot of similarity to Rails. The documentation is very good."

I know the entries would really like feedback on their code. So have at it :-)

As many of you have noticed we have released a maintenance version of ColdFusion on Wheels 1.0.2. This release comes on the heels of the 1.0.1 release made only days ago. In fact there are no new features in version 1.0.2 and this release only addresses some bugs that made their way into the release cycle of 1.0.1. Almost immediately after releasing 1.0.1 we noticed something was wrong and some bugs had crept in to the code during the packaging of the release. The core team immediately set out to fix the issue and in fact had a new version of the 1.0.1 zip file on the site within an hour. We then took the new release through some more rigorous testing and eventually incremented the version number to indicate the change that had taken place.

We drew straws as to who to blame but I don't remember who lost ;-). Seriously though, we only tracked six downloads of the infected 1.0.1 zip file and several of those were by the core team members. So the impact of this was probably very minimal. And yes we have taken steps to make sure it doesn't happen again. Thanks again for your continued support of the project.

The Learning Wheels Litepost Contest is wrapping up on Feb 19th. It is meant for a hopefully, quick and simple intro into Wheels.

Prize

Grand Prize (one): $100 Amazon Gift card

Runner Up Prizes (two): $50 Amazon Gift card

Everyone: Free one year Mini Hosting Plan at Alurium Hosting (over $40 value)

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Today, we release a minor maintenance version, ColdFusion on Wheels 1.0.1. Download it today. There are no new features, but everyone likes a more stable code base!

For those of you upgrading from version 1.0, the path is very simple. Simply replace the wheels folder of your install with the new wheels folder from the zip file.

With help from the community, we were able to identify and squash 25 bugs. All of them were minor edge cases, so most have not caused any pain whatsoever for Wheels developers. For a detailed list, refer to the CHANGELOG included with the download.

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A couple weeks ago, we launched a UserVoice forum for feedback about the Wheels website itself. To submit feedback about our website, simply go to the website and click on the red Feedback tab along the left side of the screen. You can also vote for other features and improvements that others have suggested.

And hey, we've actually implemented our first idea generated from your feedback! Our first UserVoice request was implemented last week: the site-wide search engine for cfwheels.org. Now you can search through the entire website for any content or documentation that you may be looking for. We'll be reviewing data that the search engine collects to improve your experience even more.

It's been pretty clear all along that feedback about the Wheels framework itself should go in our issue tracker, but requests for the website were starting to get mixed in with that. Now the two trackers are separate but equal.

Have an idea for our website? Go ahead and submit your idea now.

Here are two 5 minute screencasts to help you get started for the Wheels Litepost Learning Contest.

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The core team has been impressed with the work that Andy Bellenie has been contributing to the core and community for quite some time. So we extended an invitation for him to be the a part of the team, and he said yes.

Andy is very talented and definitely has opinions about the "right way" of doing things. In fact, we couldn't see why he shouldn't be a part of the team.

Please join us in congratulating Andy. We're glad to have you on board officially!

ColdFusion On Wheels is announcing a contest to create an example of LitePost using Wheels

The LitePost project is hosted here. It is a simple blogging application to compare different ColdFusion frameworks. A sql script for the tables and other framework examples are available.

Goal

Fun exercise to learn Wheels for newbies and chance to win an Amazon Gift card.

Prize

Grand Prize (one): $50 $100 Amazon Gift card

Runner Up Prizes (two): $25 $50 Amazon Gift card

Everyone: Free one year Mini Hosting Plan at Alurium Hosting (over $40 value)

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What: "Intro into Wheels Object Relational Mapping (ORM)", with Mike Henke

WHEN: Thurs. Jan 21, 6:00pm US ET (UTC/GMT-5)

MEETING URL: http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/ DURATION: Approx. 1 hour Meeting will be recorded. URL will be posted after meeting at http://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com

ABOUT THIS SESSION:

Our 6pm (US ET) talk on Thursday Jan 21 will be "Intro into Wheels Object Relational Mapping (ORM)", with Mike Henke. (For an introduction to CFWheels, see the recording of the talk earlier this month by Chris Peters. More at http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/12231118/.)

TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker)

An overview of Object Relational Mapping (ORM) and how is it used in Wheels. Learn how ORM simplifies your database interaction code. Mapping objects in your application to records in your database tables is a key concept in Wheels. We will take a look at exactly how this mapping is performed.

Thanks to the ColdFusion Community for supporting Wheels. Hat-tips to upcoming ColdFusion Conferences cf.Objective() and CFUnited for accepting and expressing interest in Wheels sessions. Individual thanks to Sean Corfield for asking people to submit Wheels topics to CFUnited and Charlie Arehart for hosting Wheels topics on the Online ColdFusion Meetup. Finally, thanks to CFHour() for scheduling Chris Peters to talk on an upcoming show about Wheels.

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