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Presenting Mango at the University of California, Irvine

I will present Mango and its accompanying paper at the UROP Symposium at the University of California, Irvine this Saturday May 13. By looking at the frappr map, I don't think there are many CF developers around here in Orange County, but you don't have to be a developer to attend since everybody is invited.

Presentation: 2:20 PM (Room 242)
Poster Session: 1:00pm - 1:50pm
Humanities Building
University of California, Irvine

Hope to see you there!

Abstract 

Blogs have become a popular vehicle for communicating ideas, information sharing and journal publishing. Several blog "engines" are available that allow individual bloggers to get started with relative ease. Most engines are constrained to a specific implementation, for example using PHP and MySQL, or are otherwise unable to support the customization and extensibility expected by today's bloggers. This paper describes the Mango project, addressing the above shortcomings by providing an open-source, extensible and customizable blog engine that uses and benefits from Adobe ColdFusion.
Mango's architecture is easily extended by the use of plugins, custom tags and interchangeable skins. In addition, most blog engines today do not provide full-text indexing of the content. Mango blog uses the built-in Verity indexing engine to allow full-text searches. Mango exposes administrative tasks in several popular formats, and syndication data in the form of RSS and ATOM feeds. Thus, the content of blog postings can be modified from a number of different clients and can be accessed by any RSS reader. Currently, Mango is used at UCI in a classroom environment for team communication and document publication. We plan to make it available for public download as soon as the initial tests have been passed. A demo and documentation can be found at http://www.mangoblog.org
Laura

Laura

12 Comments

  1. Sami Hoda

    Sami Hoda

    Awww man, I used to work at UCI! Wish I could attend. Will you post a preso afterwords?
  2. Laura

    Laura

    I don't think I will post it, as the powerpoint by itself doesn't really say much.
  3. Adam

    Adam

    I wish I knew about this sooner, there is never anything in Orange County... You studio and work are awesome.
  5. Josh

    Josh

    Good afternoon,

    Any idea when Mango will be available to test/use? It looks fantastic. I currently use Ray Camdens BLOGCFC, but I am ready for a change and more functionality. (Ray has done a great job)

    Let me know,

    Thanks,

    Josh
  6. Laura

    Laura

    Josh,
    My idea was to have it available for testing around this time, but I got caught doing other things and have not had the chance to touch the code in weeks. If you sign up in Mango's page, we'll notify you when it is available. Would you be interested in being a beta tester or you prefer to get it when it is ready for production?
  7. Mike Mason

    Mike Mason

    I signed up for Mango as well. I hooked onto you guys about a year ago when I noticed you were CF developers with an eye for design!! REALLY rare. Great work and cannot wait to get my hands on this blog, everything you guys do is top notch.
  9. Al

    Al

    Laura, I want to applaud you!
    Really great job, really nice design!
    I have great pleasure to be on your site!
  10. Lachie

    Lachie

    Hi,

    Love your work, it has helped me in so many ways. Thanks.

    I would be interested in beta testing your application if you need.

    Kind Regards

    Lachie
  11. Neil

    Neil

    Guys, any news on Mangoblog? I really like the look of this and check back regularly to see if anything has changed. Appreciate you're all probably very busy but I wondered if this project has died?
  12. Josh Rodgers

    Josh Rodgers

    ?

    The project hasn't died, they just released Beta 2. Check out the projects section on this blog. Mango is alive and well.