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BlogCFC is now at GitHub!

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:54:00 -0400

Well, it has been done.

BlogCFC has been moved to GitHub.

What are you waiting for...go forth and fork and make pull requests...

Soon.....

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:37:00 -0400

Follow the BlogCFC Twitter Account

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:36:00 -0400

Ok, so I lied, the first task was not to get the current code moved to GitHub, it was to create a BlogCFc Twitter account.

You can now follow BlogCFC on Twitter for up to date information

More on the Future of BlogCFC

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:05:31 -0400

Hi everyone, it's me, your new benevolent dictator for BlogCFC. I just wanted to let everyone know that I am busy trying to figure out the 'road map' for BlogCFC. Keep an eye out here as there may be a lot of information forthcoming in the near future.

The first task on my 'To Do' list is get the existing 5.x codebase moved from SVN and into GitHub. This will be happening soon and I will post here when that is done.

I have received many offers of assistance and started to reach out to some people already. For right now, there will be a small, core group of people working to get the next version ready for public consumption. Once we get the next version to a somewhat workable state, the code will be posted to GutHub. If you have not heard from me yet, please be patient, I will be contacting everyone in the coming weeks.

Thanx!

The future of BlogCFC

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:20:00 -0400

(Cross post from my blog...) My recent interview with CFHOUR has just been posted. In this podcast I discuss Zeus (and let slip a few new things), but I also talked a bit about the future of BlogCFC. BlogCFC is my oldest, and most widely used, open source product. While it has some questionable architecture (ok, it barely has architecture), I'm proud of what it has accomplished and how it's helped others. The flip side to this pride is a growing guilt over the fact that I've been able to release 6.0. I took some admirable stabs at it, but, it just never gelled. A few weeks ago I came to realize that I was holding back BlogCFC as a product. I was a barrier to it growing. I thought about Joe Rinehart (a man I greatly admire) and his decision to hand over the reigns of Model-Glue to Dan Wilson, and it occurred to me that maybe it was time to do the same. So with that being said, today I'm announcing that I'm stepping down as the project lead for BlogCFC. Scott Stroz will be taking over. He has already reached out to others and has some plans, and I plan on staying heavily involved. (It's funny - now that I'm not "responsible", I actually feel more motivated than before.) I won't deny - I'm more than a bit sad about this. But I honestly feel like this is for the best. I've got faith in Scott (and the folks he has reached out too). To everyone who has helped build BlogCFC (and quite a few folks have contributed), I thank you!

Very important fix

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:29:00 -0400

If you have the BlogCFC 5.9.8.011, please update immediately. Category links are completely borked.

BlogCFC 5.9.8.010

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:03:00 -0400

This is almost all thanks to Stephen Moretti:

Minor formatting change to addsub.cfm.
updated jquery.selectbox.js
added pageadmin user role and retricted access to page related functions in the admin menu
made print use the entry alias for the file name instead of just "print"
added a random number to the end of the ajax call in the admin entry form to help prevent IE caching of data
added cfcontent to proxy.cfm to make sure that json is returned with the correct mime type to keep IE happier
added a couple of admin css hacks to make the login form and select boxes on the entry form display correctly in IE7.

5.9.8.009 Released

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:10:00 -0400

Just a minor update. Includes a xml-rpc fix and a robots.txt block for the mobile directory. Thanks go to Dan and James for these.

5.9.8.007 Released

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:07:00 -0400

This just corrects a small, but annoying issue with emails sent for moderated comments.

5.9.8.006 Released

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:43:00 -0400

This version includes mobile fixes, as well as support for not sending hyper cool 10 inch tablets to the mobile version.

5.9.8.005 Released

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:39:00 -0400

This updated contains fixes for slideshow, renderer, mobile, and pods. NOTE: The pod fix corrects a case sensitivity issue when creating / updating pods. This update forces all pods to have lowercase names. This is a go forward fix and doesn't auto update any existing pods. When updating a existing pod with an uppercase character in the name, a new pod will be created that is lowercase. The uppercase pod will can be manually deleted.

Using the BlogCFC Renderer

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:29:00 -0400

What is the BlogCFC renderer? The renderer is a way for BlogCFC to display dynamically generated content in a page or post. The renderer can process just about anything that you can write a handler for, for example, putting in an rss feed result into a page or displaying a twitter search result. This sounds complicated but in actuality, it is easy to accomplish. It is almost like creating a custom tag but in a CFC. To create a renderer all that is needed is to create the custom renderer CFC and put it in the render folder. After that, refresh the BlogCFC cache and it will be ready for use. As an example, let's say that this is the blog page content as entered in page edit form body:


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What would be rendered is this: In the example above, "br_twitter" is the name of the renderer. The use of attributes is optional and not required. When BlogCFC processes the page/post, all attributes are passed to the renderer even if they are not declared in the CFC (attribute overloading). Now let's go through what it takes to create that example renderer. [More]

5.9.8.004 Released

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 07:06:00 -0400

This is a minor update, but fixes a pretty critical bug with notifications. Enjoy.

5.9.8.003 Released

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:31:00 -0400

This update includes fixes to mobile as well as support for FAILTO in emails sent by BlogCFC. Note that this isn't 100% covered yet, but should be for comments. As always, you can get the bits from blogcfc.riaforge.org. For Mac users, I used 7-zip to zip the folder. Let me know if that extracts better for you.

BlogCFC 5.9.8.002 Released

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:10:00 -0400

Today I released a very minor update to BlogCFC. There were two lines that would break in CF8. In CF9 you can var scope anywhere. In earlier versions of ColdFusion the var scope declarations must be at the beginning of the method.