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Mach-II Integrity (1.9) - Milestone 1 Released

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Team Mach-II is proud to release Milestone 1 for Mach-II "Integrity" (1.9). We have moved to a milestone release cycle instead of a massive beta at the end of our development period. Each milestone will include several small features or improvements. We release milestones when they have a reached "beta" quality and are ready for the less adventurous Mach-IIers to test.

• Boostrapper "loading page" option - #195
• Add 'prepend' attribute to the view-page command - #420
• Improvements to the logging package
  • Use <cfhtmlbody> for M2 logger output when on Open BD - #439
  • Allow for MachIILogger use IP list to show debugging output - #329
• Improvements to the HtmlHelperProperty
  • Add support for nested "inline" JS in asset packages - #469
  • Add option to add JS before HTML body in HtmlHelperProperty - #230
• Miscellaneous improvements
  • Add ability to use a module event as default event - #382
  • Add helper methods to ViewContext and BaseComponent for environment related functionality - #467

For more information see our What's New in Mach-II 1.9 document.

Download Mach-II Integrity Milestone 1 now.

Mach-II 1.9

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Hot on the heels of the Mach-II 1.8 "Simplicity" final release, Team Mach-II is proud to announce the availability of Milestone 1 (M1) of the 1.9 "Integrity" release.

As we've mentioned a few times before, starting with Mach-II 1.9 we are moving to milestone releases in order to get fully completed features in your hands as soon as possible. This helps us better organize and complete the development tasks involved with the release, and our users can help us by testing the new features as they're completed instead of waiting for the full final release, or potentially having numerous partially completed features in nightly builds.

Mach-II 1.9 is code-named "Integrity" because one of the main focal points of this release is adding validation capabilities to the framework. An integral part of validation is internationalization, so i18n is another big piece of Mach-II 1.9. We've made great progress on these features and they'll be available in future milestone releases. You can read about some of our plans for i18n features on the Mach-II wiki.

In keeping with our smaller, faster release cycle, we started with some low-hanging fruit for Mach-II 1.9 M1, including:

• Boostrapper "loading page" option - #195
• Add 'prepend' attribute to the view-page command - #420
• Improvements to the logging package
  • Use for M2 logger output when on Open BD - #439
  • Allow for MachIILogger use IP list to show debugging output - #329
• Improvements to the HtmlHelperProperty
  • Add support for nested "inline" JS in asset packages - #469
  • Add option to add JS before HTML body in HtmlHelperProperty - #230
• Miscellaneous improvements
  • Add ability to use a module event as default event - #382
  • Add helper methods to ViewContext and BaseComponent for environment related functionality - #467

Grab the Mach-II 1.9 M1 zip now and help us by starting to incorporate new Mach-II features into your development cycle right when they're available.

As for our plans for future 1.9 milestone releases, we're a completely open book. You can read about all the milestone plans on our roadmap, and please let us know if you have feedback on any of the great features we have planned for 1.9. And we can't wait to start sharing our plans for 2.0.

As always, thanks for your support of Mach-II! Our users and community are what make Mach-II great, so we truly appreciate everything you do for Mach-II.

Mach-II Glimpses: What We're Up To Lately!

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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 have you!

Kurt

• "Pretty much completely rewrote the event-bean command" because of all the new stuff!"
• "I started a nice unit test [with MxUnit] that throughly tests all the new code in event-bean."

Rock on Kurt! Keep cookin' on that code.  Kurt is an un-sung programming powerhouse on Team Mach-II. He deserves more credit than he publicly gets.

Adrian

• "Planning out a series of beginner M2 tutorials. They'll be a pretty sweet resource."

Way to hit the ground running Adrian!

Peter

• "Writing documentation for the view tag library and the loop criterion attribute of cache-clear."
• "Building out some tools for the tools tab of the dashboard. RegEx tester and scribble page tools are forthcoming."
• "Coordinating on the last 10 tickets of over 180 tickets filed for 1.8 Simplicity."

Feels kinda strange commenting on myself, but consider myself colored busy this Fall.

Matt

• Attending SpringOne2GX: "Brain already going a mile a minute and that's only from the opening keynote."

I'm sure Matt will be back with even more Mach-II vision ideas.  We're really research new stuff for 1.9 and 2.0!

Brian

• "Working on some more Mach-II QuickStart screencasts."

Brian has done three great screencasts be sure to check the latest (as of the date of this blog post): Introduction to Mach-II events Part Two http://bit.ly/mCdVJ

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Well, that's the quick update for this week.  More to come soon.

 

Team Mach-II Meeting Notes - 9/29/2009

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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. There are a couple of references to "new features" in the notes that we'll be announcing once they're more fully baked. We promise you'll like what you see!

Looking for Help With Mach-II on Railo

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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 apps you have on Railo, and the more features of Mach-II they exercise (caching, logging, plugins, filters, etc.) the better.

We don't anticipate any issues if you're running the latest version of Railo (there were some issues with older versions but they've been fixed in the later versions of Railo), but having someone who can be a "Railo ambassador" of sorts would be of great help to the project.

Since Railo is still a bit of a moving target (there have been some issues on and off for the past few months), having someone who can alert us early and often of any issues would be fantastic. If people aren't aware we also have a test harness, but nothing substitutes for real world apps being tested on the various engines.

If you're interested just respond to this message, or if you prefer you can contact us off-list at team at mach-ii dot com.