Yes, thank goodness, the online store is finally up and running and Meld Forums for Mura is now available for purchase. Soooo many little details to fret over and test when you are dealing with online transactions, it feels like you are launching a shuttle.
Okay, after many iterations and changes, I've finally packaged up the Meld URL Interceptor for the Mura CMS into a functional plugin. This is mainly a development tool, to be sure, but I'm sure the creative out there will find many uses for it. Perhaps best of all, it's free (GPL 2 licensed)!
Meld URL Interceptor offers a few very significant benefits. First, they make URLs "friendly" to both human eyes and search engines. Second, they hide your variable architecture from unfriendly eyes, making it harder to crack your site. Third, they incorporate validation at a very early stage (again, helping to foil the ne'er-do-wells). Finally, they are a very efficient method of packaging variables for your Mura-integrated applications.
Meld Forums for Mura, the discussion forums plugin for the Mura CMS, is following very shortly (yes, this is a good news + "gotcha" sort of announcement, but at least we let you know before you got there!) We are just finishing up the documentation, support structure and actual online store so the actual "plugin" will be available very soon.
I have a simple rule when it comes to writing to the database; it should be considered like spanking a child:
Sure, this is a little tongue-in-cheek, but there is a pretty serious side to it to. The other day on Slashdot I saw a discussion on managing open file/record locks in a database, and a 'marked informative' suggested solution was to update a date field in the database every 10 seconds via Ajax, with an overall 30 second window to allow for network failures/etc. In other words, what was proposed (and popularized) was that every active record should call home every 10 seconds merely to say somebody is looking at it. Gads!!!!! This would add a huge amount of wasted database processing to an application and performance drain on a grand scale (especially if it required transactions and/or write locks).
I started writing CFML in Homesite over a decade ago, and continued using it until CFEclipse finally lured me away last year. Recent changes (i.e. the unfortunate decision to update my Eclipse install into something that now tosses Exceptions out like candies in a parade, no matter how many times I wipe the slate clean and reinstall) has more or less pushed me into using ColdFusion Builder as my full-time IDE. I'm supposedly switching to my Mac soon (I've been saying that since April), so I may switch back once there, but for now I am pushing through with CF Builder.
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