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Core team member Andy Bellenie is presenting at the Scotch on the Rocks conference this year, held 6-7 June in Edinburgh, Scotland.

There’s an great set of speakers lined up, including Ray Camden (Adobe), Luis Majano (Coldbox), Matt Gifford, Mike Henke, Bruce Lawson (Opera), Guust Nieuwenhuis and many more, not to mention Andy Allan and the guys from Fuzzy Orange who make it all possible.

Andy will be presenting a talk on the use of mindfulness-meditation as a technique for both professional and personal development. He’ll also be flying the flag for CFWheels at the conference and will run a BOF session for newbies and pros alike.

More info on his talk can be found here: http://www.sotr.eu/index.cfm/main/presentation/by/andy_bellenie

And the main conference site is here:
http://www.sotr.eu/

Please join me in welcoming Don Humphreys to the Wheels core team. Don has certainly grabbed our attention over the past few months with development of the CFRel and ColdRoute plugins, which bring some significant Rails 3 features to Wheels.

Congratulations Don! We’re looking forward to your contributions to the project.

You can follow Don on GitHub as dhumphreys and Twitter as @dhumphreys88.

On Sunday, January 23, the Wheels project moved its source code hosting to GitHub. You can now browse to the cfwheels repository on GitHub, fork it, and watch it for updates—all from your GitHub dashboard.

This is only for the source code as we will still be using Google Code for issue tracking and documentation for the time being. (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. (more…)

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:

• ColdFusion on Wheels – Convention Over Configuration
• Simplifying Database Code with the ColdFusion on Wheels ORM
• BOF: CFWheels – Finally, a Framework for the Rest of Us

If you run across us, we’re giving out some awesome t-shirts designed by Raul Riera and his dev shop, Hipervinculo. (more…)

We are excited to announce that Tony Petruzzi is taking on the role of lead developer for the Wheels Core Team. Tony’s technical skill and dedication to the project will undoubtedly lead us to great places in the future. We are already cooking up some new plans and are excited to continue on under Tony’s leadership.

We would also like to take a moment to thank Per Djurner, who has led the project for several years now. Much of the code and documentation have been contributed by Per, and we ultimately wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for his generosity.

As we approach 2011, we will be focusing on ways to get the community more involved with contributing to the project. Stay tuned for more news soon.

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.

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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.

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. (more…)