A ColdFusion Nerd's love for Lorem Ipsum

As a distraction from the insanity of client development, I thought it would be fun to mark off one of the ColdFusion to-do items on my list.

Like any good ColdFusion nerd, I have a list of things I want to accomplish with my favorite programming language.  There are user defined functions on my list, Mango Blog plugins on my list, ColdFusion websites on the list, you name it.  

The list also contains several CF-related blog post topics I would love to write about.  I'm definitely no Ben Nadel or Raymond Camden, but I do have my fair share of blogability in me.

Well, not long ago I decided to try tackling two items about once: a Mango Blog plugin and a new UDF for CFlib.org.  I had an idea for a simple UDF that I could easily convert into a Mango Blog plugin.

After a few hours of work, I am proud to say that effort paid off in the form of cfLipsum.

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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:

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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.

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The Launching of Nile Kinnick

Nile Kinnick played football at the University of Iowa in the late 1930s.  He went on to break many Iowa Hawkeye football records on his way to winning the 1939 Heisman Trophy. But there was more to Nile Kinnick than just football.  And Tom Lidd did an excellent job of telling the full story in his book NILE.

Having discovered this novel one weekend while doing research, I was quick to purchase it. I also wrote a blog post about it on the Iowa Hawkeyes Blog. In that post, I made an open offer to help the author promote and sell the book. As luck should have it, Tom was a reader of the blog and sent me an email stating an interest in my offer.

Over the next several months, Tom and I exchanged several emails and ideas back and forth on how to promote his book. Th overall goal is to have the book turned into a screenplay, so having a web presence could only help acheive that goal. And believe me, this novel will make a fantastic movie.

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The Launching of Mooney, Wright & Moore, PLLC

The nerds have been working hard for our clients lately, and finally some results are starting to show. Over the weekend, we launched the new website for the law office of Mooney, Wright & Moore, PLLC.

Mooney, Wright & Moore, PLLC is a law firm in Phoenix, Arizona focused on state and local tax controversies. It is a small firm with some very big clients and a very impressive list of representative cases. The attorneys were previously partners in a large corporate law firm, but decided to start their own a few years ago.

Since branching out on their own, they have had just a very basic website in place compliments of GoDaddy's Website Tonight. Realizing that this was not doing the best job of representing their firm, they contacted us about constructing them a quality website. And we gladly accepted the task.

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