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!

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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Robert Burns was pretty quick at adding Wheels to his CFML Framework Skeletons plugin for Eclipse after we released version 1.0.

After installing the plugin in CFEclipse or ColdFusion Builder, you can start a new Wheels project in a wizard that appears after going to File > New > Project.... It will load up all the framework files that you need automatically.

To install, add http://www.robertburns.me/update/ to your update sites in Eclipse.

The framework generator also supports code for ColdBox, FuseBox, FW/1, LightFront, Mach-II, and Model-Glue.

Thanks

I would like a couple hat-tips to Sean Corfield for mentioning Wheels in his blog entry about Hal Helms leaving CFML.

And to ColdFusion Open-Source Update by Brian Rinaldi who regularly mentions Wheels along with all sorts of other CF Open Source news.

Finally, Thanks to Ben Forta, yes Mr. ColdFusion himself. He mentions Wheels 1.0 Release.

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Well, my first blog post for Wheels. I am Mike Henke. I fell in love with Wheels after I asked my friend Ryan Stille what ColdFusion framework he thought looked interesting and would like to learn. I always wanted to implement a CF framework at work, but business constraints (time, complexity, learning curve, priority) never worked until I found Wheels.

In this entry, I will be providing some surprising and interesting stats showing how Wheels has grown over the past couple years. Here are a couple to start with: CFWheels.org had a spike of over 500 unique visitors and 42 downloads in one day last month.

Traffic from past couple years (Google Analytics)

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Mike Henke presented about Wheels tonight at the Maryland ColdFusion User's Group. He gave an overview of how Wheels and MVC frameworks work and demonstrated some code examples.

Here are the slides. You can also view a full screen version with speaker's notes.

Thanks Mike for your efforts to get the word out there!