yet another coldfusion blog

As a brief sidebar in my Advanced Plugin Development series I'm going to explore the PluginConfig and PluginApplication objects, two very essential components in developing your Mura plugins. The "best practices" methodology of accessing PluginConfig has also recently changed, so if you are developing plugins there are a few important bits of information in here. Also, make sure you've read or have a copy of the programmer's guide to Mura CMS handy as I'll be referring to that document occasionally.

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After many requests (and a few promises) I am finally putting together a series of blog posts on building a complex plugin for the Mura CMS. Plugins are basically stand-alone applications that take advantage of Mura's extensibility hooks to integrate themselves into the CMS and web site. This feature set has matured greatly over the last year, and allows developers a great deal of latitude over how they can achieve this and in what tools they can use. This series of posts will be as much about building the plugin as introducing developers to the many facets of Mura extensibility.

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Announcing Meld Solutions Inc., a company dedicated to developing open source solutions for the Mura Content Management System.

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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.

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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.

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