Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF blogs
That's Tom that's just the kind of input I was looking for. I downloaded Mango last night. Seems easy to install. I like what I see so far. One of the guys at the office wrote me this morning to tell me he opened an account at blogger.com and ask me if we should run multiple blogs. One integrated into our site and another one at blogger.com. I didn't know what to tell him. I'm not a blog expert or anything but at the moment I don't know how it would help to have two which would basically have the same info on it. Does anyone know if would help or hurt to post the same content to multiple blogs? Good thing? Bad thing? Dusty On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Tom McNeer tmcn...@gmail.com wrote: Dusty, I'm not sure you'll be able to determine a most preferred: blog. But I think you'll find strong supporters both for Ray Camden's BlogCFC (which has been around forever, but is frequently updated) and Mango Blog, from the folks at ASFusion. You can find both at RIAForge, I think. For some reason, Mango Blog isn't showing up in the search there, although a number of plugins for it do. But you can find it at mangoblog.org. Mango, in particular, is built for skinning. -- Thanks, Tom Tom McNeer MediumCool http://www.mediumcool.com 1735 Johnson Road NE Atlanta, GA 30306 404.589.0560 -- Dusty Hale Email: du...@dustyhale.com Phone (Atlanta): 404.474.3754 Phone (Toll Free USA): 877.841.3370 Website: www.DustyHale.com
Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF blogs
Those are very good reasons. Ease of skin is very important in the project I've been assigned. Thanks again to all for the input. Dusty On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Andrew phi1...@gmail.com wrote: I switched from BlogCFC to Mango for multiple reasons. 1. It's EXTREMELY easy to skin and modify the designs for it 2. It's got a solid plugin architecture that lets you add any functionality that you may think is missing without compromising the engine as a whole 3. It's got an extremely well designed admin console that automatically notifies you of updates, not just to the engine, but to skins as well I feel that BlogCFC is a good starter blog for anyone wanting to use a CF blog engine. Mango, to me, just seems like a much more elegant and professional piece of software. I've told Ray as much and he agrees. BlogCFC is a hobby for him, not something he can dedicate a lot of time to maintain. Mango is something that Nauhel and Laura have time to dedicate to and it shows. My two cents. Andy Powell On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:53 AM, shawn gorrell chees...@yahoo.comwrote: I've been using Ray's BlogCFC since he first released it. Modified it slightly and haven't done a single upgrade. Has worked well for me, so I had no reason to stay up to date. -- *From:* Dusty Hale du...@climbonline.com *To:* discussion@acfug.org *Sent:* Thu, January 28, 2010 11:49:48 AM *Subject:* Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF blogs That's Tom that's just the kind of input I was looking for. I downloaded Mango last night. Seems easy to install. I like what I see so far. One of the guys at the office wrote me this morning to tell me he opened an account at blogger.com and ask me if we should run multiple blogs. One integrated into our site and another one at blogger.com. I didn't know what to tell him. I'm not a blog expert or anything but at the moment I don't know how it would help to have two which would basically have the same info on it. Does anyone know if would help or hurt to post the same content to multiple blogs? Good thing? Bad thing? Dusty On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Tom McNeer tmcn...@gmail.com wrote: Dusty, I'm not sure you'll be able to determine a most preferred: blog. But I think you'll find strong supporters both for Ray Camden's BlogCFC (which has been around forever, but is frequently updated) and Mango Blog, from the folks at ASFusion. You can find both at RIAForge, I think. For some reason, Mango Blog isn't showing up in the search there, although a number of plugins for it do. But you can find it at mangoblog.org. Mango, in particular, is built for skinning. -- Thanks, Tom Tom McNeer MediumCool http://www.mediumcool.com 1735 Johnson Road NE Atlanta, GA 30306 404.589.0560 -- Dusty Hale Email: du...@dustyhale.com Phone (Atlanta): 404.474.3754 Phone (Toll Free USA): 877.841.3370 Website: www.DustyHale.com - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink http://www.fusionlink.com - -- Dusty Hale Email: du...@dustyhale.com Phone (Atlanta): 404.474.3754 Phone (Toll Free USA): 877.841.3370 Website: www.DustyHale.com
Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF blogs
And in my experience with both blog engines, the authors are very responsive to emails/forum posts. Not a point to one side or the other but good points to both! -- Howard Fore, howard.f...@hofo.com The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to. ... No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it. - Richard P. Feynman On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Dusty Hale du...@climbonline.com wrote: Those are very good reasons. Ease of skin is very important in the project I've been assigned. Thanks again to all for the input. Dusty On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Andrew phi1...@gmail.com wrote: I switched from BlogCFC to Mango for multiple reasons. 1. It's EXTREMELY easy to skin and modify the designs for it 2. It's got a solid plugin architecture that lets you add any functionality that you may think is missing without compromising the engine as a whole 3. It's got an extremely well designed admin console that automatically notifies you of updates, not just to the engine, but to skins as well I feel that BlogCFC is a good starter blog for anyone wanting to use a CF blog engine. Mango, to me, just seems like a much more elegant and professional piece of software. I've told Ray as much and he agrees. BlogCFC is a hobby for him, not something he can dedicate a lot of time to maintain. Mango is something that Nauhel and Laura have time to dedicate to and it shows. My two cents. Andy Powell On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:53 AM, shawn gorrell chees...@yahoo.comwrote: I've been using Ray's BlogCFC since he first released it. Modified it slightly and haven't done a single upgrade. Has worked well for me, so I had no reason to stay up to date. -- *From:* Dusty Hale du...@climbonline.com *To:* discussion@acfug.org *Sent:* Thu, January 28, 2010 11:49:48 AM *Subject:* Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF blogs That's Tom that's just the kind of input I was looking for. I downloaded Mango last night. Seems easy to install. I like what I see so far. One of the guys at the office wrote me this morning to tell me he opened an account at blogger.com and ask me if we should run multiple blogs. One integrated into our site and another one at blogger.com. I didn't know what to tell him. I'm not a blog expert or anything but at the moment I don't know how it would help to have two which would basically have the same info on it. Does anyone know if would help or hurt to post the same content to multiple blogs? Good thing? Bad thing? Dusty On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Tom McNeer tmcn...@gmail.com wrote: Dusty, I'm not sure you'll be able to determine a most preferred: blog. But I think you'll find strong supporters both for Ray Camden's BlogCFC (which has been around forever, but is frequently updated) and Mango Blog, from the folks at ASFusion. You can find both at RIAForge, I think. For some reason, Mango Blog isn't showing up in the search there, although a number of plugins for it do. But you can find it at mangoblog.org. Mango, in particular, is built for skinning. -- Thanks, Tom Tom McNeer MediumCool http://www.mediumcool.com 1735 Johnson Road NE Atlanta, GA 30306 404.589.0560 -- Dusty Hale Email: du...@dustyhale.com Phone (Atlanta): 404.474.3754 Phone (Toll Free USA): 877.841.3370 Website: www.DustyHale.com - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink http://www.fusionlink.com - -- Dusty Hale Email: du...@dustyhale.com Phone (Atlanta): 404.474.3754 Phone (Toll Free USA): 877.841.3370 Website: www.DustyHale.com
[ACFUG Discuss] CF blogs
I'm very curious to know which ColdFusion blog is the most preferred in the CF community. I've read some really good things about Mango Blog. I've been given the task of redesigning and reorganizing a blog for the company I'm currently working for. We currently have an older version WP blog. Several problems that I've been asked by my boss to solve: 1. We want a tighter integration with our existing website which is a custom site built with CF and MS SQL 2005. It has very custom and specialized features including it's own login system (Permission based using bitAnd that Hal Helms taught me years ago). The folks at our office never liked the WP blog because it has its own user system and we were never able to tie it to our user system (shared login type of thing). Maybe the new blog doesn't even need a login. We'd also like to output posts on our other websites which are all CF sites. Mango seems like a good fit because we can keep the blog data in the same SQL Server database so I'm assuming I could use CF to output posts directly in the skin of our other sites? 2. I need a blog that I can customize the look with our existing website skin. I also have to say that I suck at doing pure CSS layouts so I still use tables. I do use CSS just not in a pure layout. If that is a problem, I may even outsource that to a person with solid CSS layout skills. 3. Our older WP blog honestly is just too much for any of our staff to use. Everytime they try to post stuff they always manage to screw up the formatting of have some kind of issue and I end up redoing every post they make. I hate web based WSIWYG editors so I just code a post with hand coded clean HTML and inline CSS styles in every tag. I do it in DW and copy paste it over into WP. Anyway I am not a pro blogger nor do I claim to have great blogging knowledge. Any thoughts or opinions are greatly appreciated and please if I can somehow return the favor or contribute in some way, please let me know. Also just to let everyone know. I lived and worked as a CF developer in Atlanta for some years and used to occasionally attend ACFUG meetings. It's been some time since Atlanta and I'm living and traveling in places where there are little to no technical user groups like this. So technically I'm not in Atlanta anymore but I'm looking to be more involved with one or more groups like this remotely. So if there are any little things I can do to help, I'm down with that. Thanks, Dusty
Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF blogs
Dusty, I'm not sure you'll be able to determine a most preferred: blog. But I think you'll find strong supporters both for Ray Camden's BlogCFC (which has been around forever, but is frequently updated) and Mango Blog, from the folks at ASFusion. You can find both at RIAForge, I think. For some reason, Mango Blog isn't showing up in the search there, although a number of plugins for it do. But you can find it at mangoblog.org. Mango, in particular, is built for skinning. -- Thanks, Tom Tom McNeer MediumCool http://www.mediumcool.com 1735 Johnson Road NE Atlanta, GA 30306 404.589.0560
Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF blogs
I've been using Ray's BlogCFC since he first released it. Modified it slightly and haven't done a single upgrade. Has worked well for me, so I had no reason to stay up to date. From: Dusty Hale du...@climbonline.com To: discussion@acfug.org Sent: Thu, January 28, 2010 11:49:48 AM Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF blogs That's Tom that's just the kind of input I was looking for. I downloaded Mango last night. Seems easy to install. I like what I see so far. One of the guys at the office wrote me this morning to tell me he opened an account at blogger.com and ask me if we should run multiple blogs. One integrated into our site and another one at blogger.com. I didn't know what to tell him. I'm not a blog expert or anything but at the moment I don't know how it would help to have two which would basically have the same info on it. Does anyone know if would help or hurt to post the same content to multiple blogs? Good thing? Bad thing? Dusty On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Tom McNeer tmcn...@gmail.com wrote: Dusty, I'm not sure you'll be able to determine a most preferred: blog. But I think you'll find strong supporters both for Ray Camden's BlogCFC (which has been around forever, but is frequently updated) and Mango Blog, from the folks at ASFusion. You can find both at RIAForge, I think. For some reason, Mango Blog isn't showing up in the search there, although a number of plugins for it do. But you can find it at mangoblog.org. Mango, in particular, is built for skinning. -- Thanks, Tom Tom McNeer MediumCool http://www.mediumcool.com 1735 Johnson Road NE Atlanta, GA 30306 404.589.0560 -- Dusty Hale Email: du...@dustyhale.com Phone (Atlanta): 404.474.3754 Phone (Toll Free USA): 877.841.3370 Website: www.DustyHale.com - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -
