This blog has been a little quiet lately, but believe me that plenty has been going on behind the scenes.

We've released a new section on our site for Screencasts. I've started a series on building a fake social networking site, and the first 2 episodes are there:

• Episode 1: Setting up ColdFusion on Wheels
• Episode 2: Form Helpers

The aim of the series is to go through a real world application and cover different topics as they are appropriate.

There are plenty more episodes and standalone screencasts in the works, so be sure to subscribe via RSS or iTunes.

Mike Henke and Clarke Bishop have been writing some great how-to series on using ColdFusion on Wheels. Both do a nice job of showing the steps involved with building simple sample applications.

So you want to create a CFWheels application? (6+1 parts)

Mike's series for the Wheels framework similar to Dan Wilson's "So you want to" series for Model Glue:Unity.

Head First Rails Applied to CFWheels

Clarke demonstrates how topics in the popular book Head First Rails map to Wheels. This is a great way for those of you who know a little Ruby to see how it's done in CFML.

There are many other bloggers out there writing about Wheels, which we will feature in the coming months. But I felt that starting with a couple tutorial series was the way to go.

As a follow-up to the Hello World tutorial, we've just released a tutorial called Hello Database.

As its name suggests, the point of this new tutorial is to help you get a jump start on learning about Wheels's ORM functionality. This is not an exhaustive walk-through but rather a taste so you can dip your toe into the pool.

If you've been on the fence on whether you'd like to try ColdFusion on Wheels, give the tutorial a read.

Right now is a pretty good time to be learning ColdFusion on Wheels. You can review the documentation that's been written and learn as we write new chapters. So far, I'm guessing that it would be pretty easy to keep up with us!

If you haven't been keeping up with the conversation in the discussion group, we've been producing some great new material. Up in the Docs are 2 new videos and 2 new written chapters.

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