A couple weeks ago, we launched a UserVoice forum for feedback about the Wheels website itself. To submit feedback about our website, simply go to the website and click on the red Feedback tab along the left side of the screen. You can also vote for other features and improvements that others have suggested.

And hey, we've actually implemented our first idea generated from your feedback! Our first UserVoice request was implemented last week: the site-wide search engine for cfwheels.org. Now you can search through the entire website for any content or documentation that you may be looking for. We'll be reviewing data that the search engine collects to improve your experience even more.

It's been pretty clear all along that feedback about the Wheels framework itself should go in our issue tracker, but requests for the website were starting to get mixed in with that. Now the two trackers are separate but equal.

Have an idea for our website? Go ahead and submit your idea now.

Here are two 5 minute screencasts to help you get started for the Wheels Litepost Learning Contest.

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The core team has been impressed with the work that Andy Bellenie has been contributing to the core and community for quite some time. So we extended an invitation for him to be the a part of the team, and he said yes.

Andy is very talented and definitely has opinions about the "right way" of doing things. In fact, we couldn't see why he shouldn't be a part of the team.

Please join us in congratulating Andy. We're glad to have you on board officially!

ColdFusion On Wheels is announcing a contest to create an example of LitePost using Wheels

The LitePost project is hosted here. It is a simple blogging application to compare different ColdFusion frameworks. A sql script for the tables and other framework examples are available.

Goal

Fun exercise to learn Wheels for newbies and chance to win an Amazon Gift card.

Prize

Grand Prize (one): $50 $100 Amazon Gift card

Runner Up Prizes (two): $25 $50 Amazon Gift card

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What: "Intro into Wheels Object Relational Mapping (ORM)", with Mike Henke

WHEN: Thurs. Jan 21, 6:00pm US ET (UTC/GMT-5)

MEETING URL: http://experts.acrobat.com/cfmeetup/ DURATION: Approx. 1 hour Meeting will be recorded. URL will be posted after meeting at http://recordings.coldfusionmeetup.com

ABOUT THIS SESSION:

Our 6pm (US ET) talk on Thursday Jan 21 will be "Intro into Wheels Object Relational Mapping (ORM)", with Mike Henke. (For an introduction to CFWheels, see the recording of the talk earlier this month by Chris Peters. More at http://www.meetup.com/coldfusionmeetup/calendar/12231118/.)

TOPIC DESCRIPTION: (provided by the speaker)

An overview of Object Relational Mapping (ORM) and how is it used in Wheels. Learn how ORM simplifies your database interaction code. Mapping objects in your application to records in your database tables is a key concept in Wheels. We will take a look at exactly how this mapping is performed.

Thanks to the ColdFusion Community for supporting Wheels. Hat-tips to upcoming ColdFusion Conferences cf.Objective() and CFUnited for accepting and expressing interest in Wheels sessions. Individual thanks to Sean Corfield for asking people to submit Wheels topics to CFUnited and Charlie Arehart for hosting Wheels topics on the Online ColdFusion Meetup. Finally, thanks to CFHour() for scheduling Chris Peters to talk on an upcoming show about Wheels.

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Come hear me present on the basics of ColdFusion on Wheels on ColdFusion Meetup this Thursday. The presentation is Thursday, January 7, 2010, at 6:00 pm Eastern Time.

I just sent this description over to Charlie Arehart:

Chris Peters demonstrates how to build a simple CRUD (create, read, update, delete) application using the ColdFusion on Wheels framework. By the end of the hour, you'll have a solid understanding of what it's like to build applications rapidly with Wheels. Surely, you'll be ready to give the framework a look on your own time!

This is recommended for novice users, those of you who haven't had the chance to try out Wheels, disenfranchised framework users, or anyone else who wants to come heckle me in the Acrobat Connect chatroom. :)

• Enter the Meeting
• Recordings of Previous Meetings

Robert Burns was pretty quick at adding Wheels to his CFML Framework Skeletons plugin for Eclipse after we released version 1.0.

After installing the plugin in CFEclipse or ColdFusion Builder, you can start a new Wheels project in a wizard that appears after going to File > New > Project.... It will load up all the framework files that you need automatically.

To install, add http://www.robertburns.me/update/ to your update sites in Eclipse.

The framework generator also supports code for ColdBox, FuseBox, FW/1, LightFront, Mach-II, and Model-Glue.

Thanks

I would like a couple hat-tips to Sean Corfield for mentioning Wheels in his blog entry about Hal Helms leaving CFML.

And to ColdFusion Open-Source Update by Brian Rinaldi who regularly mentions Wheels along with all sorts of other CF Open Source news.

Finally, Thanks to Ben Forta, yes Mr. ColdFusion himself. He mentions Wheels 1.0 Release.

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Well, my first blog post for Wheels. I am Mike Henke. I fell in love with Wheels after I asked my friend Ryan Stille what ColdFusion framework he thought looked interesting and would like to learn. I always wanted to implement a CF framework at work, but business constraints (time, complexity, learning curve, priority) never worked until I found Wheels.

In this entry, I will be providing some surprising and interesting stats showing how Wheels has grown over the past couple years. Here are a couple to start with: CFWheels.org had a spike of over 500 unique visitors and 42 downloads in one day last month.

Traffic from past couple years (Google Analytics)

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