BlogCFC v5: The circle is now complete...

I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of BlogCFC 5.0. This has been a long time coming. In fact, the last release was January 22nd. So what has changed? Here is a short list:

  • New default look and feel.
  • Administrator (no more design mode)
  • CAPTCHA support
  • Auto-include images
  • RSS improvements
  • Related Entries support
  • Comment display improvements
  • SES improvements
  • Cowbell improvements
  • Preview support
  • Draft mode support
  • Send to a Friend
  • Lots of bug fixes

First and foremost, I want to thank Scott Stroz, Jeff Coughlin, and Charlie Griefer. Scott added the "Pure CSS" changes to the front end, and helped all around in general. JC and CG built thew Related Entries support from the ground up. Their wishlists are mentioned in the readme doc. If you have supported me before and want to do so again, I ask that you please support them first. Of course, I won't mind if you visit my list. ;)

I will continue to work on BlogCFC of course. The plans for 5.1 are Postgres and AJAX changed to Related Entries. My next area of focus though will be on CFLib and Soundings. (Yes, Next-N is coming in.) Oh, and I start a new job on Monday as well, so things may be a bit crazy. :)

As always, you can expect a few.... issues to crop up. You may want to monitor the BlogCFC web site and the Subversion repository.

Enjoy.

Edited: Um, so yea, a download URL or two may help. To download the zip, use this URL:

http://ray.camdenfamily.com/downloads/blog.zip

You can also find the download link at the project page.

Comments (21) May 12, 2006 12:02 PM Views: 4601

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Rock on Ray...

Thanks!
# Posted By Evan | 5/12/06 12:20 PM
Thanks Ray!
# Posted By David A. | 5/12/06 12:23 PM
Nice range of improvements Ray.

This release also includes 'Recent Comments' right?
# Posted By Sam Farmer | 5/12/06 12:36 PM
I'm so glad you finally added more cowbell!

Sorry couldn't resist.
# Posted By Pete Freitag | 5/12/06 12:55 PM
It does, and sorry for a) not calling it out and b) not crediting you. (Although your name IS in the source code. :)
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 5/12/06 12:57 PM
Hi Ray
Thanks for the blogcfc, I will credit you :)
The sites looking slightly under construction at the moment because it is heh, Im just trying to poulate it at present with as much as I can think of.
Keep up the groovy work buddy

Jose :)
# Posted By Jose Diaz | 5/12/06 1:37 PM
Thanks so much for the efforts, Ray (and the fellow contributors). I hope to apply the update ASAP and will get to that Amazon Wish List soon thereafter. :-)

Hey, for those reading of them for the first time (and to save some who would need to go look into it), can you (or anyone) explain what "cowbells" are about? :-) Did I miss this feature in my use of the last version?
# Posted By Charlie Arehart | 5/12/06 2:09 PM
Ray,

So is this site now on BlogCFC 5?

Sami
# Posted By Sami Hoda | 5/12/06 2:27 PM
Cowbell reference: A Saturday Night Live (SNL) Skit about the blue oyster cult.

The following link has a video clip of the skit.
http://webfeedcentral.com/2005/01/21/more-cowbell-...

If Bruce Dickinson wants more cowbell, then we should probably give hime more cowbell!
# Posted By Kris Brixon | 5/12/06 2:29 PM
Sami, yes and no. The core CFC is here, but I'm not going to bother witch the CAPCHA support. I'll worry about it later.

Kris, thanks for sharing the cowbell faq.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 5/12/06 2:31 PM
The SNL video clip was too funny! Great for a Friday afternoon break. Thanks! :-)
# Posted By Charlie Arehart | 5/12/06 2:56 PM
Does it run on the old database? Will we be able to use that or what?
# Posted By John Farrar | 5/12/06 3:21 PM
John, please see the readme. It describes what you have to change.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 5/12/06 3:26 PM
OK... my sidebar is a footer level sidebar. Can anyone else verify this issue?

http://www.sosensible.com/blog/client/
# Posted By John Farrar | 5/12/06 6:40 PM
So, what's the new job? No more Mindseye?
# Posted By mikeD | 5/13/06 2:30 PM
Heh, mikeD, you are behind. See:

http://ray.camdenfamily.com/index.cfm/2006/5/1/Tim...
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 5/13/06 3:07 PM
Ray,

Where do we find the 5.1 wish list of features taht we'd like to see added?
# Posted By Gary Funk | 5/14/06 12:35 PM
Go to my forums, blogcfc, and there is a new features forum.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 5/14/06 9:15 PM
OK... has no one clicked to see if they are having a CSS issue when viewing my site. (I am using the default look that came with the blog, so this would be important.) I plan on updating but thought we ought to verify this issue first. Is anyone else having the same issue?
# Posted By John Farrar | 5/15/06 8:15 AM
John, I wasn't able to see it. Of course, I used FF.
# Posted By Raymond Camden | 5/15/06 8:24 AM
John, I did click through when I saw your posting and it looked fine to me (I use FF/Mac). Have you added ?reinit=1 to your url? My blog looked strange until I did that.

dickbob
# Posted By dickbob | 5/15/06 9:21 AM
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