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Apr
24

Mango has grown up

2 comments Posted by: Laura

After over two years of working on Mango, I have released version 1.0. This version has the features that I considered to be the most important, so having been tested by many people, I decided that is was robust enough to remove the "beta" adjective from it.

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Apr
20

Flex Frameworks Roundtable Podcast

3 comments Posted by: Laura

The ColdFusion Weekly Podcast, hosted by Matt Woodward, has a new episode. The topic this time is Flex Frameworks, and I am on it! I talk about the soon-to-be-released Mate framework and my presentation at cf.Objective(), which is rapidly approaching.

read more Category: Flex |
Apr
04

Developing open source: satisfaction or debt generator?

10 comments Posted by: Laura

While I am looking at the mere 7 billable hours for the whole week, I can't help wondering why I enjoy developing open source software so much. A quick recap of the week reveals: making the distribution packages and testing the upgrade scripts for the new release of Mango Blog; fixing last minutes bugs encountered while testing the packages; answering questions in Mango's forums; making a new example and writing a tutorial for the soon-to-be-released Mate framework; writing missing documentation for Mate; working on the cf.Objective() presentation about Mate; preparing the audio files for the ColdFusion Weekly roundtable about Flex frameworks... Mmmh... Can you spot the pattern here? Most of my time was spent working on personal, open source projects.

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