Matt Woodward's Blog

Yes, I know MachBlog has been languishing, so my apologies yet again. Several issues contributed to the lack of progress:

1. I've been really busy with my day job


2. I was waiting for BlueDragon 7 Beta 2 to come out because it resolved some Mach-II and ColdSpring issues


3. I ran into some hair-tearing i18n issues with dates

So, I'm happy to announce that everything is finally running well on BlueDragon 7 Beta 2 and that I think I've nailed down all the i18n issues I was seeing. The reason I was waiting on BlueDragon is because that's what I'm running here on my VPS at Vivio, and also because we want to officially support ColdFusion 6.1, ColdFusion 7, and BlueDragon 7. We will not be supporting BlueDragon 6.2.1 because there are some fundamental issues with ColdSpring on BD 6.2.1 that would require massive rework to ColdSpring, but we are pleased to support BD starting with the new version 7.



So now that I have some rather show-stopping stuff out of the way I can focus on the remaining minor annoyances and get this thing out the door! Look for a public beta very soon. The wait was actually great because we also got PostgreSQL support rolled in, courtesy of some fine work by Joseph Lamoree.



A reminder of some of the features:

• Full-featured blog application built on Mach-II and ColdSpring


• Runs on CF 6.1, CF 7, and BD 7


• Support for MySQL 4, MySQL 5, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, and PostgreSQL (I'll have to check with Joseph on a version)


• Fully i18n ready


• Easily skinnable

That's all for now--you can also learn a lot more about MachBlog at my "Mach-II In Action: Anatomy of a Blog" presentation at the Frameworks Conference in February.