Mach-II is a powerful, object-oriented, MVC framework for developing ColdFusion applications. I am currently serving on Team Mach-II as the Community Manager for the project. Here are some of the postings on the Team Mach-II blog :
When is Mach-II 1.6 going to be released?
Ah, the age old question. While we could say "it will come when it comes," this is a bit of a cop-out phrase, and we also feel it promotes secrecy and uncertainty as opposed to the openness and transparency that is required for a great, com...
What's New in Mach-II 1.6 and 2.0?
Peter gave an extremely well-received presentation at cf.Objective() covering what's new in Mach-II 1.6 and even a bit about what we have in mind for version 2.0, and if you've been curious, be sure to download his presentation! We'll have an officia...
Mach-II Roadmap Redux
Today was I going through some old Google documents that contained some plans/discussions by Team Mach-II on features to be released in future releases of Mach-II. This specific document was last editted on January 7th, 2007 which is over 16 mo...
Ohloh codebae history and well documented code factoid
Ohloh is a project aggregator that provides more visibility to a project by watching rss (like Trac) and SVN/CVS. They have some factoids on the Mach-II framework profile.
They do not have CF as a language category. Since we close ...
Mach-II 1.6 Progress with Beta Coming Soon
It's been a while since Team Mach-II briefed users on the progress of Mach-II 1.6 -- probably too long. Before I get into the details, I want to personally mention that I'm extremely excited about this release for many reasons. I'd like t...
Mach II 1.6 Spec: Caching
Team Mach II has been busy working toward a beta release of Mach II 1.6. We have started implementing a new caching feature for Mach II based on a proof of concept which Peter wrote. We have produced a spec and would like to get the community's feedb...
Early Bird Deadline Extended to 1/20 for Mach-II Workshops at cf.Objective()
The early bird deadline has been extended to match the extended deadline for cf.Objective 2008!
If you register by January 20, you'll get the following "Early Bird Special" discounts:
2-Day Workshop (April 30 - May 1) -- ...
Early Bird Ends 1/15 for Mach-II Workshops at cf.Objective()
Don't forget about the following cf.Objective () 2008 Pre-Conference Workshops:
April 30 Workshop -- Object-Oriented Programming with Mach-II
May 1 Workshop -- Building Enterprise-Level Applications with Mach-II
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Mach-II 1.6: Sneak peek...
The photo says it all.
Team Mach-II needs your help!
We are looking for Mach-II developers that are willing to contribute writing of content to help build out the official wiki for the Mach-II project. We have two general needs:
FAQ - Do you have some tidbits of helpful info that would hel...
Mach-II 1.6 Spec: Application.cfc Bootstrapper Enhancements
Team Mach-II is proud to release a specification for a proposed new feature for Mach-II 1.6 and we need your comments / thoughts / reactions. Please read the entire specification and if you have questions or comments please comment on our new T...
Mach-II 1.6 Spec: Broadcast Style Listeners
Team Mach-II is proud to release a specification for a proposed new feature for Mach-II 1.6 and we need your comments / thoughts / reactions. Please read the entire specification and if you have questions or comments please comment on our new T...
We've Added a Bug Tracker and Have a New SVN URL
Exciting times around here as we have improved our infrastructure for the project. The newest addition to our infrastructure is that our Subversion repository has moved to a managed host - CVSDude. This has allowed us to integrate a Trac ...
Mach-II 1.6 Development Started & Small Updates
Just wanted to let everybody know that we've started a new directory in our Subversion repository for development of Mach-II 1.6. Point your favorite SVN client if you wish to use the BER here:
http://greatbiztoolsllc-svn.cvsdude.com/mach-ii/f...
New Documentation Available for BuildUrl(), SES URLs and <redirect> command
I just finished typing out a draft of the Mach-II URL Management Enhancements documentation. It's a very rough draft at this point, but I hope it covers some of the questions that have been coming up on the Google Group. If you're inteste...
cf.Objective() 2008 Pre-Conference Mach-II Workshops!
Team Mach-II™ is offering new pre-conference workshops that help developers learn how to apply object-oriented programming fundamentals by using the Mach-II framework. Participants may choose one of the following workshop options:
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Mach-II 1.5 Final Released
The Mach-II team and GreatBizTools, LLC are pleased to announce the final release of Mach-II Version 1.5. Mach-II 1.5 has been available as a beta for several months, and as a release candidate since August 14, 2007. Numerous large-scale applications...
Framework Download Permalinks
Kyle Hayes, our Corporate Evangelist / Designer, recently asked me if there was an easy way to always get the latest and greatest builds of Mach-II (i.e. a permalink). So, here they are:
Latest Stable Version
Latest Development Vers...
Nightly Builds and Duck Typing
I've been on an ANT kick lately and tonight I decided to whip up a build file for Mach-II. A couple things came of this...
The ability to do nightly builds of the framework for everybody that does not want to use a bleeding edge release ...
Relative Paths for Include and Module Config Files
For the sake of it being a Monday, I thought I would post a short entry about the new relative path support for include and module configuration files in Mach-II 1.5 (available in RC1). Yes, you heard it right - relative paths. We added t...
