ColdFusion on Wheels Blog

Here are two 5 minute screencasts to help you get started for the Wheels Litepost Learning Contest. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

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!

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.

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We are excited to announce the availability of ColdFusion on Wheels 0.9.1. I personally can tell you that the core team and community have really outdone themselves with this release. It is a giant step toward an impending release candidate.
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Another quick announcement. We’ve released a chapter in the Documentation about object validation.

Object validation allows you to enforce business logic related to your data easily. It also allows you to persist your objects so that your application can communicate error messages back to the user or handle the errors in some other way. It’s a very clean way of handling logic that can be very repetitive if you choose to write it all out by hand instead.

We’re happy to announce the addition of James Gibson to the Wheels core team. The core team leads the development and community efforts of the framework.

James has been actively submitting patches to the Google Code site for a while now. He finds a problem and immediately gets to work on fixing it himself. That’s a guy that we need on the team!

Please join me in congratulating James. We all look forward to our project getting that much better with him on board.

I switched the domain for CFWheels.com to CFWheels.org yesterday (We’re not trying to make money from you, after all.)

As a result of this URL switch, FeedBurner reposted the last 10 blog entries as new posts. You may safely ignore the flood of “new” posts if you would like.

Sorry for the confusion that I may have caused. Blunder alert!

I stumbled across an honest account by Marc Funaro about how OO almost destroyed his business. He spares no detail in the post, but I still think it is worthwhile to read in its entirety as a reality check for yourself.
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We’ve gone 1.0! Go download ColdFusion on Wheels 1.0 and give it a try. If you’re upgrading from a previous version, please review the instructions for Upgrading to 1.0 (even if you’re upgrading from the release candidate). Read the rest of this entry »