Blog

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.

Read More
By Steve Good
Comments(1)
Tags: Dallas TechFest, ColdFusion, Mura CMS, Eclipse
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!

Read More
By Steve Good
Comments(0)
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.

Read More
By Steve Good
Comments(0)
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.

Read More
By Steve Good
Comments(2)
Tags: Mura CMS, Plugin, 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.

Read More
By Steve Good
Comments(5)
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.

Read More
By Steve Good
Comments(0)
Tags: Mura, ColdFusion, Plugin, Analytics, Quantcast
ColdFusion Throwdown

After weeks of secrecy I'm finally launching ColdFusion Throwdown, a site dedicated to competitive CF development.  Did I mention that prizes are involved?

Read More
By Steve Good
Comments(0)
Tags: ColdFusion, Throwdown, Mura
LatestTweets - A Mura Plugin
LatestTweets - A Mura Plugin

 Though this is not my first Mura plugin, it IS the first Mura plugin I have released.

LatestTweets evolved from a simple bit of javascript I had thrown together for the Slantsoft site some time ago, to a modular Mura component, to it's latest redition, a full blown Mura plugin.  You can see the plugin in action anywhere on this site that shows my twitter stream.

Read More
By Steve Good
Comments(0)
Tags: Mura, jQuery, ColdFusion
Powered by Railo & Mura

Creating and deploying new sites couldn't be easier thanks to Railo and Mura.

About a month ago I was setting up a new site for my church.  Knowing that cost was a factor I opted to let 2host.com provide the VPS at a very low cost and build it all on Railo and Mura.  Once the server was ready the entire setup process only took about an hour to get MySQL, Railo and Mura all setup.  Because of the speed of deployment and how easy it is to setup things like galleries and blogs within Mura I made the decision to move my blog and a couple other sites to a consolidated interface with Mura and Railo running under the hood.

Read More
Comments(2)
Tags: ColdFusion, Mura, Railo