The first public beta of Model-Glue:Unity is available for download. It has many of the same capabilities as Ruby on Rails and ColdFusion on Wheels, as well as:
- Automatic record validation.
- Allows implicit invocation, where one event can fire multiple controller methods, instead of a single page mapping directly to one controller mapping.
- No need to learn pluralization rules.
- Separation of labels and messages into XML files for internationalization.
- Customizable "scaffolds" via XSL.
- Pluggable framework via ColdSpring.
- And more.
Joe Rinehart has
blogged details, and also posted a YouTube
video of using it to create a blog.
And talking about Joe and Model-Glue, he'll be presenting ColdFusion and Model-Glue at an Adobe Developer Week session tomorrow, and there are still a few attendee slots left. If you want to learn more about Model-Glue, don't miss this opportunity.
The New York Times is running a story about a ring tone that can be heard by kids, but not by adults. As per the story, most adults suffer from presbycusis, aging of the ear. And as a result, the older you get the less likely you are to hear sounds at higher frequencies. Which means that kids can now use a ring tone that their folks won't hear (I don't know if that's a really good thing, or really scary). There is a link on the page to an MP3 of the ring tone, but I don't know if it's for real as I can't hear anything when I play it! :-(
Version 0.5 of ColdFusion On Wheels (ColdFusion's answer for those with Ruby On Rails envy) has been released.
Brian Kotek has written an article for Builder.com entitled Take advantage of an opportunity while the ColdFusion landscape is hot in which he summarizes why "it's never been a better time to be a ColdFusion developer".
