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Project Update - 4/28/2009

Good Day Mach-II-ers! By popular demand, here is the project update for the past few weeks. We send project updates out on an as-needed basis. Without further ado, here is this week's update:

This Week's Special Thanks

Just wanted to thank Derrick Jackson for contributing a great start to the code to our auto-update feature for the Mach-II Dashboard. The phone home feature will check with mach-ii.com for new versions of the framework and dashboard let you auto-update them. It's still very alpha and not feature complete yet, but a picture is worth a thousand words so here is a screen shot for your coding pleasure:

http://tinyurl.com/cx7k7d

I'd like to also thank Jonah and Brian for their insightful comments about how Mach-II can support auto-negotiating between HTTP/HTTPS (secured support) in a future version of Mach-II. It was great "conversation" on a Trac ticket so if you want to throw your two cents into this, we would love to hear from you. Community involvement is essential to creating great future versions of Mach-II so become involved by reading and commenting on the Trac ticket:

http://tinyurl.com/dfmv28

Wiki Updates

There has been some significant updates to the wiki. Here are the highlights:

New section on how to customize and leverage exception handling functionality
http://tinyurl.com/ce5d3c

New entry on using event-mappings and why you should use them if you are not
http://tinyurl.com/czk6jg

Completed documentation on the form tag library which is in the Mach-II 1.8 release
http://tinyurl.com/co7otr

How to setup application environments using the EnvironmentProperty in the Mach-II 1.8 release
http://tinyurl.com/cjjoe3

Team Mach-II project meeting minutes from 4/15/2009
http://tinyurl.com/dzva5e

As part of our champaign, Don't Fear the Wiki -- the wiki can be edited by anybody. Helping with documentation is a great way to get noticed by Team Mach-II and is how our newest team member, Brian FitzGerald, became involved with the project. If you need help with using the wiki or about adding articles, feel free to contact Brian for help -- brian [@at@] mach-ii.com.

Mach-II Project Blog Highlights

Mach-II: History, Philosophy, and Community
Since there's been a bit of a stir about the state of CFML frameworks recently, and having been in the middle of this sort of thing four years ago (was it that long?) with Mach-II, it seemed an appropriate time to share some thoughts that have been fermenting in my head (Matt) as well as in discussions on the Mach-II team for quite a while. Specifically I'd like to share with everyone some of the philosophy underlying the Mach-II project, our development process, why we do things the way we do, and ultimately why we do what we do.
http://tinyurl.com/dcy28n

Mach-II 1.6.1 Stable Available
http://tinyurl.com/ddnf7k

Let's Get Logging
With Mach-II 1.6 already published as a stable release, a fair amount of focus has shifted to the development of 1.8 (Simplicity) and upcoming features such as the handy Environment and HTMLHelper properties, redirect enhancements, and more.
http://tinyurl.com/czv2q2

Mach-II Dashboard 1.0 Reaches RC1 and Released
http://tinyurl.com/d7arek

Skeleton for Mach-II 1.6 Stable Release and Future Plans
http://tinyurl.com/czgya2

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