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Introducing the New HomePortals CMS Plugin

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:09:00 -0600

A few days ago I released the latest update to the HomePortals framework and its counterpart management platform ColdBricks. Besides the obligatory bug fixes and improvements, there was one new major feature on this release: the CMS Plugin. The CMS P... [More]

Available Update for HomePortals and ColdBricks

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:35:00 -0600

I just pushed new updated versions of HomePortals and ColdBricks to their respective sites and are now available for download. As usual the updates contain multiple bug fixes and small improvements here and there. However there are a couple of featur... [More]

Update to 'Core' Framework. Now in GitHub!

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:31:00 -0600

A while ago I shared a small framework I created which I use to develop pretty much all of my projects (both open source and paid engagements). The framework, as is usual for web frameworks, follows the MVC and Front Controller patterns; also like Se... [More]

Model-Glue / HomePortals Sample Application

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:10:00 -0600

A few weeks ago I wrote about how to use the layout management features of HomePortals on a ColdBox 3 application. This time I want to show how to do the same but with an application built with the Model-Glue framework and also explain a bit more of ... [More]

miniwiki: a minimalist wiki

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:10:00 -0600

Miniwiki is a very basic and light wiki application for any CFML engine. Although it is designed to have a very small footprint, it can be easily customized in terms of skinning and layout. miniwiki uses a subset of reStructuredText as the syntax...

HomePortals/ColdBox Integration Revisited

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:50:00 -0600

A while ago I wrote a post about how to integrate the HomePortals layout rendering features into an a ColdBox application. Since then a lot has changed on both the HomePortals and ColdBox camps so I've been wanting to revisit that experiment and see ... [More]

ColdBricks 1.1 Update: Custom Resource Libraries & Extension Modules

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:57:00 -0600

A new update to ColdBricks CMS is now available for everyone to download and play. This is still part of the greater 1.1 release but it adds some new interesting features that I thought would be interesting to blog about. Besides the obligatory bug f... [More]

Got Bugs? There's An App For That!

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:20:00 -0600

Ever wanted to check up on your trusty BugLogHQ server to see whats going on with your apps on the go? Have an iPhone or iPod Touch? Well, today is your lucky day. I just pushed an update to BugLogHQ to include a custom web interface for the iPhone a... [More]

CFShell 0.2: Even More CLI Goodness for CFML Servers

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:13:00 -0600

Today I uploaded to RIAForge an update to CFShell. This update focused on making the client behave more like a standard command line tool, and also added a couple of useful commands and shorthand expressions to the shell. [More]

CFShell: A command line interface for CFML engines

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:21:00 -0600

Many times when we are working on our ColdFusion apps there are situations in which we want to quickly evaluate something or try some one or two-liner snippets to do something quick. The typical process then is that we have to create a .cfm page, put... [More]

Launched 2 New Homeportals/ColdBricks powered Websites

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:59:00 -0600

I wanted to quickly share that two new ColdFusion websites have been launched recently: MSDynamicsWire.com (a news portal) and Meancycles Owners Galleries (a social network). Both sites were developed using HomePortals and ColdBricksCMS. Both sit... [More]

Creating Your Own Alert Rules For BugLogHQ

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:41:00 -0600

One very useful feature of BugLogHQ is the 'Rules' feature. These are basically rules or conditions that get evaluated every time a bug report is processed and can be used to provide custom behaviour. Rules may be used for things like alerting you wh... [More]

BugLogHQ 1.4 is now available

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:47:00 -0600

The newest release for BugLogHQ is now available for download at RIAForge. This new version has lots of new additions and improvements that will make it even more powerful and easier to use. Here are some of the highlights of the new version: ... [More]

ColdBricksCMS - ModuleMaker Demo Screencast

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:04:00 -0600

One of the new features I really like on the new ColdBricks release is the Module Maker. This feature allows you to create your own customizable widgets or modules that you can add to your own ColdBricks sites. To better demonstrate the capabiliti...

Anyone wants to help test the new ColdBricks CMS?

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:26:00 -0600

I am finally ready to enter the testing/packaging phase for the new version of ColdBricks. ColdBricks, if you don't know is a CF-based Content Management System (CMS) that is used to build sites on a modular fashion. This new version includes som...