That title is a mouthful. And many might not be familiar with what it means. Check out this video to learn more about Mura's Form Builder, or you can go to this link which goes directly to the section of the video that I had an issue with.

In the video, Sean demonstrates the basics of creating a dropdown where you can manually enter the options for the dropdown. He does gloss over the fact that you can also get the data for the dropdown from other sources. Unfortunately, this is the extent of the currently existing documentation for this feature. So when I wanted to use this feature of the form builder to feed in data from another part of the site, I had to figure it out on my own. Here is what I came up with. Hopefully it is right(ish). Oh, you can also use this stuff to populate checkbox and radio button sets.

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Internet Relay Chat (IRC) has been around for a LOOONG time. I have fond memories of logging into IRC (for embarrassing amounts of time) when I first logged onto the internet in 1995. I have been using IRC ever since.

The are many server choices on IRC, but the one I keep finding myself coming back to is Freenode.

"freenode provides discussion facilities for the Free and Open Source Software communities, for not-for-profit organizations and for related communities and organizations."

Seems like a perfect place for a Mura channel.

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So I have been working with Mura CMS a lot lately and I have also migrated all of my projects to Git. But I find myself in a situation that I don't really like. I have an idea of how I might fix it, but I am not expert enough in Mura or Git to know if this is a good idea or if I will find myself in a tough position with it in the future.

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What I've been thinking about

I've been thinking a lot lately about Blue River Interactive's Mura Content Managent System (hence forth referred to as Mura CMS or just Mura), probably because I have been working a lot with it lately. I am in the process of converting a large, mostly static, web site to Mura, and I have been amazed by its power, versatility and ease-of-use. I have been especially pleased with how easy it is for me to make plugins for it.

While thinking about Mura, I have realized something important. Mura CMS is an incredible products with the potential to change the way that ColdFusion and CFML are viewed. And this needs to be recognized. It also has the potential to become a very popular, open source product used outside of the ColdFusion/CFML community.

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