As the project has been transitioning to "one guy doing all the work" to a true community effort, we've had a slight amount of growing pains. Of course, this is a great problem to have. But obviously, we need a little bit of structure.
In light of this, I've posted the first version of our process and guidelines for contributing to Wheels:
Update: I wrote this blog post because I was fired up. Of course, I realize that you're looking at the blog about Rails for ColdFusion. I was merely trying to get you to see the significance of what we're doing here. Apologies if anyone thought that I was slamming the project. It really is a great thing!
I've been addicted to TED Talks for the past couple years. Recently, I caught up with a talk by author Howard Rheingold, called Way-new collaboration. (For those of you in RSS Land, click through to see the video.)
We're at an interesting time for the ColdFusion community. Unless we start opening up and collaborating more, we're going to get swallowed up by the competition. I know that we're all used to hearing that the sky is falling in CF land. But this is something that we need to do.
Where's our WordPress? Where's our Rails? It's all up to you to get this moving. Volunteering is about more than writing code. How can you contribute?
Right now is a pretty good time to be learning ColdFusion on Wheels. You can review the documentation that's been written and learn as we write new chapters. So far, I'm guessing that it would be pretty easy to keep up with us!
If you haven't been keeping up with the conversation in the discussion group, we've been producing some great new material. Up in the Docs are 2 new videos and 2 new written chapters.
Here is the first Wheels video tutorial. To be honest it's the first screen cast I've created also, but I think the quality turned out pretty good. This tutorial covers how to download and install the latest Wheels build, create a couple of pages, add dynamic content to the pages, link the pages together, and finally modify the default framework settings so one of the new pages is displayed as the default page.
ColdFusion on Wheels is back with its triumphant 0.7 release. We're glad to have Wheels's ORM features back, along with a complete rewrite of the code base for improved performance. We're hoping to write about great uses of the ORM features in particular in the coming weeks.
Some very capable hands went into this release. Per Djurner completely rewrote the code base, Peter Armini has been helping with bug fixes and documentation, and yours truly has been coordinating efforts, documentation, and redesigning the site.
There is a ton to do. Peter, Per, and I will primarily be working together on documentation. We understand that it's all quite sparse at the moment, and we also understand that it is our biggest opportunity for standing out from the other frameworks.
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