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Dallas TechFest 2010 Review
Dallas TechFest 2010 Review

Dallas TechFest, a one day technology conference, has come and gone for 2010, but what an awesome day it was.  I honestly think that this years conference was much better than the previous year.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: Dallas techFest, ColdFusion, MySQL, Grails, CouchDB, jQuery
I'll be Speaking at Dallas TechFest
I'll be Speaking at Dallas TechFest

If you are unable to attend CFUnited and you are in or are able to travel to the Dallas, TX area you should really check out Dallas TechFest.  I'll be speaking there again this year on Getting Started with Mura CMS Development.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: Dallas TechFest, ColdFusion, Mura CMS, Eclipse
ColdFusion 9 ORM - Blog Demo Source
ColdFusion 9 ORM - Blog Demo Source

Last month at the Dallas / Fort Worth CFUG we were tasked with creating a blog using ColdFUsion 9's ORM functionality.  Here is the source code for my implementation.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: blog, orm, coldfusion, svn
Last.fm Mura Plugin
Last.fm Mura Plugin

I just released a plugin that Collin Judd and I developed during a session of Mura training at work.  Now you can add last.fm features to your Mura sites!

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By Steve Good
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Tags: last.fm, mura plugin
New Mura Plugin - Recent Comments
New Mura Plugin - Recent Comments

Display recent comments in your Mura CMS through an easy to use display object.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: Mura CMS, Plugin, ColdFusion
Mura Analytics Plugin Beta Update
Mura Analytics Plugin Beta Update

An updated beta is available for download.  This beta release brings Microsoft SQL Server support into the plugin.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: Mura CMS, Plugin, ColdFusion
Form Validation Gotcha
Form Validation Gotcha

 I ran into a gotcha with the way I've been doing form validation.  HTML 5 compliant browsers handle input metadata a little differently and threw me off.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: form validation, jquery, html5, coldfusion
Rewriting URLs with Railo (Resin) for Mura CMS

Rewriting URLs to remove index.cfm in Railo (Resin) couldn't be easier. However, when doing this for Mura there are a few extra steps that will need to be taken to ensure an error free experience for your users.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: Railo, Resin, URL Rewrite, Mura
Quantcast Analytics Mura CMS Plugin

 I've been playing around with the Quantcast Analytics platform recently and after some initial testing I decided to add it to my sites. Rather than hard coding it into my templates I opted to wrap it up in a Mura plugin.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: Mura, ColdFusion, Plugin, Analytics, Quantcast
Setup Railo Express for Multiple Development Sites

Today I realized that I've been very inefficient when setting up development sites under Railo. In the past, when I needed to setup a new site I would unzip a fresh Railo Express and launch it. This behavior seemed right since it was so similar to how I do my development with Adobe's CF multiserver install. The reason I do this is to have a completely separate CF Admin for each site. It dawned on me this morning that Railo can do this in a single "install". I'll show you how, with minimal effort, you can setup a single Railo Express install you can host multiple sites with unique administrators.

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By Steve Good
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Tags: Railo, Resin, ColdFusion, Multiserver
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