Mach-II is a powerful, object-oriented, MVC framework for developing ColdFusion applications. some of the postings on the Team Mach-II blog :
This Week in Mach-II: Loggers and Modules
Yet another week of great blog post posts from our wonderfully smart and talented community. I believe I owe Mike a round of bourbon after he gets done with the custom logger series and Brian gets something - I don't know what he drinks.
Building a ...
This Week in Mach-II: A list of great blog posts by Mach-II users
It's been a busy week of blog posts about Mach-II so we thought we'd share you some great information on using Mach-II. (Psst, Brian, Mike, Eric -- we'd love to get some of your amazing work onto the wiki).
A Brief Series on Mach-II Modules
Bria...
Mach-II screencast, The Event Object
Hey Mach-II fans! Continuing our MachStart series, we've put a new screencast together on the Event Object in Mach-II. Check it out to find out how the event object can make your life easier as you begin developing your CFML applications ...
Mach-II Simplicity (1.8) is now GPLv3 with Classpath Exception. Woot!
After extended deliberations and proposal by Team Mach-II and a period for public comment, Team Mach-II is proud to announce that Mach-II Simplicity (1.8) will be released under the GPLv3 with Classpath Exception. We made the decision to ...
Open Source: Is Build It Bigger Faster a Sound Long Term Design Plan?
Recently, I was discussing the state of economics with my brother. He is really into history and economics (having a degree in it) and offered an interesting opinion on regarding the run down state of several metropolitan cities in the US. Rece...
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Mach-II Glimpses: What We're Up To Lately!
I thought it would be cool to let you know what the Team has been up to lately. We're glad to welcome Adrian Scott to Team Mach-II. His bio, photo and complete list of life ambitions are forth coming. Welcome Adrian -- we are happy to hav...
Mach-II Screencast - Introduction to Mach-II events Part Two
Happy Friday! I'm writing this post to point out that we have a new screencast available for you. This brief video continues to discuss events in Mach-II, illustrates the syntax for announcing events programmatically, and touches briefly ...
Proposed License Change for Mach-II 1.8
With the upcoming release of Mach-II 1.8 we are strongly considering a license change for Mach-II from the Apache 2.0 License to the GNU General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3) with a Classpath Exception. After much discussion we feel this is the be...
Team Mach-II Meeting Notes - 9/29/2009
If you're interested in learning more about what's going on inside the Mach-II project, make sure and read our latest team meeting notes. As always we like to be completely open about what we're doing in order to get early feedback from our users. Th...
Looking for Help With Mach-II on Railo
One of our goals for Mach-II 1.9 is to officially support Railo, which we currently don't. If someone on the list is working with Mach-II on Railo and would like to help the project, we'd love your assistance. This would involve running any Mach-II a...
Mach-II Events Screencast
Another great screencast from Brian FitzGerald is available, this one entitled "Mach-II Events Part I." As you might guess it covers events in Mach-II, and Brian does a great job of getting at the heart of what events are and how they work ...
Thank You Community!
We're getting ready in the next couple of weeks to release Mach-II Simplicity (1.8) - Release Candidate 1 (RC1) into the world. I spend a while tonight updating the README file that will ship with the release and I compiled all the names from t...
Great "Mach-II and ColdSpring for N00bs" Article by Ollie Jones
Ollie Jones has written up a great post on his blog entitled "Mach-II and ColdSpring for N00bs." It's excellent information, very thorough, and very well presented. He even includes a zip file of his basic setup that you can download.
Th...
Great Example of How Our Users Help Mach-II
My former co-worker Brandon Culpepper (who is still one of the quickest studies I've ever had the pleasure working with) ran into a bit of a bizarre issue with Mach-II yesterday, and after hearing him describe it I was determined to get to the bott...
Mach-II screencasts, so easy a caveman could do it!
One of the great things about the Mach-II framework is just how easy it is to use.
I'm not just blowing smoke here - when I got started using Mach-II, I had never used an MVC framework before. Even still, it was just a matter of digging thro...
Mach-II 1.8 Beta Available
Team Mach-II is proud to announce that Mach-II 1.8 beta, code named "Simplicity," is now available for download.
New features in Mach-II 1.8 include:
Form Tag Library with Data Binding
Create and populate HTML forms with the ...
Removing Event-Handlers Programmatically
In a recent application of mine, I have a large collection of test event-handlers that we use to test certain application functionality (such as javascript). While very useful for us when developing the application, we do not want to deploy the...
Feedback Wanted on Mach-II RadioGroup Form Tag
We're ramping up to the Mach-II 1.8 beta, and a big new feature of Mach-II 1.8 is the custom tag libraries we're introducing to make your life on the view side of your apps much easier.
Most of the tags were pretty straight-forward, but the RadioGro...
copyToScope - Yet another Wicked Mach-II Feature!
Fine, I'm biased - I'll admit it! But when you have features like copyToScope(), it's hard not to be. If you've come to Mach-II from a non-MVC background, it's likely you've found that the views in your Mach-II applications have considerably less log...
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Philosophy: Our decisions on what CFML engines we support
At cf.Objective() 2009 just a few weeks ago, I was asked why does Mach-II 1.6 support ColdFusion MX 7 since CF9 is so close. I was kind of perplexed by the question to be honest, but without knowing some history it does seem like a strange deci...
