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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 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

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

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. 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!

Mach-II Google Group Now 500 Strong!

Yesterday the Mach-II Google Group reached a big milestone: our 500th member joined! We're very excited that the interest in Mach-II continues to grow, and want to thank all the members of our growing community. Thanks also to everyone who attended my "Head First Mach-II" session at CFUnited yesterday. It was fantastic to have a packed room and so many great questions, and several people told me afterwards that they're starting to have "light bulb moments" with Mach-II, which is always good to hear.

With the great new features in Mach-II 1.6 like logging and caching, and the very cool stuff we have planned for Mach-II 2.0, now's a great time to be getting into Mach-II!

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 official beta for 1.6 available in mid-June, and development on 2.0 is already underway.

Some of the highlights for 1.6 include:

• Improved Application.cfc bootstrapper
• Publish/subscribe listener method invocation
• Caching package
• Logging package
• ColdSpringProperty.cfc (replaces the ColdSpring plugin)
• Miscellaneous fixes and improvements

The caching and logging packages in particular are extremely flexible, powerful new features in 1.6. Mach-II 1.6 ships with two caching strategies and three loggers, but we've made it very easy to extend and implement your own. For example, if you want to use MemCache, Mach-II 1.6 does not ship with that functionality, but it's very simple to add this--or any other caching strategy--yourself.

There's much more information and details in Peter's presentation, so grab it now and learn all about the fantastic new features in 1.6, as well as what we have planned for Mach-II 2.0!