ColdFusion on Wheels Articles and Discussion

ValidateThis 0.91 - Now with Groovy and ColdFusion on Wheels Support

cfwheels — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:50:10 +0000

Bob Silverberg was recently able to get his ValidateThis project to work with ColdFusion on Wheels objects. ValidateThis is a validation framework that provides easy client- and server-side data validation.

Trying out the CFWheels framework

cfwheels — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:23:54 +0000

Ryan Stille shares some gotchas and first impressions after starting to work on the Wheels LitePost contest. He shares some positive thoughts and then a couple initial frustrations with form helpers and validations.

Getting Started with ColdFusion? - Stack Overflow

cfwheels — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:15:46 +0000

In these "getting started" scenarios, it's interesting to see that Wheels is starting to get mentioned as a framework to check out. Feel free to vote up those entries and chime in more about our community.

CFWheels preinstalled into hosting accounts

cfwheels — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:41:35 +0000

Peter Amiri announces that ColdFusion on Wheels will now be preinstalled on all of Alurium Hosting's new Railo accounts.

Installing CFWheels on Hostek

cfwheels — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:52:00 +0000

davidd shares instructions for installing Wheels on Hostek's ColdFusion 8 and ColdFusion 9 servers.

Coldfusion on Wheels – our first journey together

cfwheels — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:44:29 +0000

Joel Stobart shares his first impressions of working with ColdFusion on Wheels. It's a fairly balanced review with positives, negatives, and some notes on what to expect when you're first starting out.

CFEclipse Dictionary for CF on Wheels

cfwheels — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:41:13 +0000

Quinn Madson provides a ColdFusion on Wheels dictionary file for CFEclipse and instructions for installing it.

New Stuff for MXUnit, Model-Glue and ValidateThis on the Horizon

cfwheels — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:07:43 +0000

Bob Silverberg updates us on progress with ValidateThis Wheels integration, a plugin that he's been working on with Mike Henke.

Coldfusion with Wheels gains traction

cfwheels — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:41:37 +0000

Joel Stobart comments about how framework adoption works in traditional development environments and how the recent Wheels 1.0 release can improve its ability to gain traction.

Why use CFWheels (ColdFusion) when you got Rails (Ruby)?

cfwheels — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:58:00 +0000

Jonathan examines why a CFML developer like himself would want to use Wheels instead of just switching over to Ruby on Rails.

CFHour() - This and That

cfwheels — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:36:39 +0000

More discussion about Hal Helms's departure from CFML to Ruby on Rails. We're the Rails-like framework for CFML after all, so we should be a part of the conversation.

FreeAgent Blog: New Sample - CF on Wheels

cfwheels — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:02:05 +0000

Isaac announces his release of a new sample of FreeAgent for Wheels. FreeAgent allows CFML developers to write applications that are portable from CFML framework to CFML framework.

ColdFusion on Wheels Framework Version 1.0 Released

cfwheels — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:45:40 +0000

Brian Ward summarizes his experience with Wheels so far. He also does a good job of explaining some differentiators of our framework: simplicity, intuitiveness, and something that you can grow into.

CFWheels added to CFML Framework Skeletons – Eclipse Plugin

cfwheels — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:24:53 +0000

Robert Burns very promptly added Wheels to his CFML Framework Skeletons Eclipse plugin. Now you can tell your Eclipse-based IDE of choice that you want for your new CFML project to be a Wheels project.

On Hal Helms, Ruby on Rails and the Death of ColdFusion and Fusebox

cfwheels — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:33:27 +0000

Sean Corfield uses Hal Helms's departure to Rails as a means for comparing the CFML landscape to other development environments. A good discussion on CFML frameworks and our role in open source.

Setting Up a Riaforge Project with Git and GitHub (Part 3)

cfwheels — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:21:02 +0000

Mike Henke uses the Wheels repository as an example for forking code over to Git.

Some Coldfusion to manage database schema changes similar to Rails Migrations

cfwheels — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:28:56 +0000

Tom describes some CFML that he wrote to provide somewhat Rails-like migrations in ColdFusion.

So you want to create a CFWheels application?

cfwheels — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:59:53 +0000

A multi-part series whose content borrows heavily from Dan Wilson's "So You Want to" series about Model Glue:Unity.

Head First Rails Applied to CFWheels

cfwheels — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:57:27 +0000

Clarke Bishop follows along with the book Head First Rails, but using ColdFusion on Wheels instead of Ruby on Rails.

ColdFusion vs. PHP: Frameworks Part 1

cfwheels — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:55:21 +0000

Brandon Hansen compares CFML vs. PHP frameworks with Wheels and DIY Framework, respectively.

CF on Wheels: What I Like

cfwheels — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:51:04 +0000

Jon Hartmann reviews ColdFusion on Wheels's ORM, MVC design, easy setup, and full action handling.

CFConversations Roundtable 7 - Part 2 on controller frameworks!

cfwheels — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:48:52 +0000

Chris Peters joins a roundtable discussion of front controller frameworks, moderated by Brian Meloche. Participants included Adam Haskell, Ray Camden, Mark Mandel, and Nick Kwiatkowski.

Coldfusion On Wheels, the forgotten framework

cfwheels — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:38:10 +0000

Adam Fortuna reminds his readers of Wheels and gives a quickstart set of examples on how it works.

ColdCourse: Search Engine Safe URLs for Fusebox, Mach-II, Model-Glue and ColdBox

cfwheels — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:31:50 +0000

A shout-out to Wheels as the basis for the ColdCourse open source search-engine-safe URL project.

ColdFusion for JSP Developers

cfwheels — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:29:12 +0000

A look at why ColdFusion is a relevant view and middleware technology for Java developers. Wheels gets mentioned as a selling point for using CF.

Putting Wheels On ColdFusion

cfwheels — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:26:33 +0000

WebProNews coverage of Rob Cameron's release of ColdFusion on Wheels.

The CFWheels are a turning!

cfwheels — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:24:05 +0000

A very early look at ColdFusion on Wheels after its initial beta release in 2005.

ColdFusion on Wheels on Wikipedia

cfwheels — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:19:16 +0000

Wikipedia article about Wheels. Feel free to edit the article to give it more notability.