Mura CMS

We've switched the default javascript library for the Mura CMS admin to jQuery (from Prototype), including the availability of the jQueryUI library for plugin developers. This will be a huge productivity gain for plugin programming, and also provides a great foundation for future improvements to the Mura CMS admin functionality. 

We're back from CF.Objective() and will provide a full hour of live, no strings attached support. In fact, in the future, this will be the default topic for all Mura Shows if we don't have anything scheduled for presentation. When we do have a specific topic to cover, we will be announcing it via this blog. Look forward to seeing you on the show.

We've just completed the first draft of a new round of documentation for programmers looking to get the most out of Mura CMS. In it, we cover topics like using the Mura Tag, the Mura event model, the new Mura Scope, extending base Mura types, creating Mura plugins, and much more.

This week will mark a milestone for the Mura Show. We'll have a guest presenter, designer Ronnie Duke from Mod Media. Like myself, Ronnie is not a CFML programmer and will be walking through the process of taking a design in Adobe Illustrator to creating a new theme for use in Mura.

This week we'll pick up where we left off on integrating Charlie's UGTV application into Mura CMS, except this week, we'll turn it into plugin!

This week we take a look at integrating an existing UGTV application in Charlie's site. There are a few ways to do this in Mura CMS, we'll decide which will be the best fit and see what we can do to bring into Charlie's new Mura site.

This week, we pick up with our conversion of CArehart.org by taking on Charlie's CF411 section of his site (www.cf411.com). Because of the comprehensiveness of this collection of ColdFusion and CFML resources, this should prove to be an interesting topic.

This week we'll be discussing Mura v5.2, digging into some of the new features and showing examples of what you can do. We'll pick up where we left off on converting carehart.org to Mura CMS next week.

Today we begin Part 4 of converting Charlie Arehart's CArehart.org to Mura CMS. We'll begin breaking the Articles, Presentations and CF411 sections into a more structured architecture, allowing increased usability and functionality.