twtpoll Plugin for Mango Blog

For awhile now, I have been wanting to create a Mango Plugin that people could use on their blogs. There are so many great plugins already for the Mango Blog framework, and the possibilities are endless for more.

I have several ideas for various plugins that I plan to develop out as time allows. Some are simple, some are not.

As luck should have it, some time made itself available, and one of my ideas came to fruition. Allow me to explain.

Posted by Bret on 01/31/2010 at 2:51 PM | 2 comments

Browser Wars: Chrome grabs market share from IE

browser wars

The latest update in the browser wars is out, and it appears someone is shaking things up a bit. The order of the top five browsers on the market now looks a little different:

1. Internet Explorer (62.7%), 2. Firefox (24.6%), 3. Chrome (4.6%), 4. Safari (4.5%), 5. Opera (2.4%)

In just one year, Google's Chrome web browser has tripled its market share and jumped into third place in the browser wars.

Posted by Bret on 01/09/2010 at 10:34 PM | 0 comments

Five WordPress Plugins that should be Mango Plugins

As many people already know, Mango Blog is an easily customizable ColdFusion blog engine that provides a way to administer and publish content to websites. It also provides the necessary architecture to extend its basic functionality by adding plugins. While there have already been many great and flexible plugins developed for Mango, the list has a long way to go before it reaches the WordPress plugin directory.

The nerds at Brice Cheddarn are hard at work on several projects, which limits time for plugin development. But, that didn't stop us from compiling a list of plugins we wouldn't mind seeing developed (either in-house or by one of the many CF developers in the world). As such, here are Five WordPress Plugins that should be developed Mango Blog Plugins:

Posted by Bret on 10/28/2009 at 11:08 PM | 2 comments

Top Six Mango Blog Plugins

Part of the ColdFusiontology effort being undertaken by the nerds of Brice Cheddarn Development includes spreading the word about our favorite blog engine, Mango Blog.

Mango Blog is an easily customizable blog engine built with ColdFusion that provides a way to administer and publish entries. It also provies the necessary architecture to extend its basic functionality by adding plugins. It comes with a set of plugins out-of-the-box, but others have begun to write their own plugins to help expand upon this powerful ColdFusion blogging tool. And some of those plugins need recognition.

As such, I wanted to put together a quick list of the Top Six Mango Blog plugins that are currently available. With the growing number of plugins for Mango Blog, this definitely wasn't an easy list to compile. This is a completely subjective list that is probably not as thought out as it should be, so please feel free to comment and offer your suggestions.

Top Six Mango Blog Plugins

Posted by Bret on 09/06/2009 at 11:34 AM | 4 comments

The Launching of Hawkeye Tweets

There is no mistaking the fact that I am a HUGE Iowa Hawkeye Nerd. If you hadn't noticed, two of the last three sites launched by Brice Cheddarn Development have been Hawkeye related. Hawkapalooza was a pro-bono website put together to help a student organization at the University of Iowa. NILE was put together for a client to help him promote his novel.

Hawkeye Tweets is personal project to support my favorite team. It was inspired by the work of colleagues, who put together Suns Tweets and Cards Tweets as a way to use Twitter in support of their teams. I took the same concept and applied it to the Iowa Hawkeyes.

With the help of justSignal, the same technology used on Suns Tweets and Cards Tweets, I was able to put this site together in one massive all night, Monster-fueled hacking session. Hawkeye Tweets uses the justSignal Twitter Widget to pull in the streaming tweets and ColdFusion to power the backend and other ancillary components. ColdFusion will be used more heavily as the site expands.

The Launching of Hawkeye Tweets

Posted by Bret on 09/06/2009 at 10:01 AM | 0 comments