Sounds very cool! Ya, you definitely need a good name. I've always been a fan of Greek/Latin words for products.
omni, omniCMS (all) velo, veloCMS (fast) uniFlex (one) alpha, alphaCMS, alphaFlex (first, beginning) Just some thoughts. On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Any application where you have data (or content, as the CMS folks call it) > that you want to create, edit, delete, have version control over, control > access to, and search against is a candidate for the platform, because it > allows you to handle all of those typical tasks with minimal programming. > Say you want to build an application that manages personal health records, > since we've been on that topic. This would be a typical worflow: > > 1. Add users and groups. > 2. Add any custom system roles (optional). > 3. Assign system roles by user and group as needed. > 4. Add content types as needed, e.g. prescriptions, medical procedures, and > checkups (a PHR might contain these other things) > 5. Assign create, edit, delete, own permissions (plus any custom > permissions > you want) to the content types. e.g. allow only doctors and nurses to add, > edit, and delete prescription information on a personal health record. > > At that point, you have lots of options. > > 6. Build any custom workflows you need, e.g. patients might be able to > allow/deny access by others to their doctors appointments but not their > prescription information. > 7. Add data manamagent screens, e.g. a set of screens to manage > prescriptions for a patient. > > At that point, you are possibly done and ready to deploy a live > application. > You could also: > > 8. Customize the search by extending the basic SearchManager CFC, changing > the Solr XML schema, and implementing any custom search and result display > code. > > 9. Create any custom resources (CFC methods, UI components, or other > arbitrary resource types that you want to secure, and assign permissions to > them. > > Steps 1-5 and 9 are done without any programming, and there is a robust API > used to access all of the information in steps 1-5 that you use to complete > steps 6-8. We are abstracting away more and more steps into tasks anyone > can > be trained to manage, freeing developers to focus on higher level, higher > value-added tasks. > > Flex integration is coming - working with Java objects between CF and Flex > turns out to be a little tricky, we're working on that. Mark Mandel has a > BlazeDS adapter for CF called Conduit that might be the answer. There are > only a couple of other things left to finish for the feature complete > baseline, and there are many directions the platform can go from here. > > I have more details, email me offlist if you want to know more. > > > Rob > > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Do you have some examples of when and why it would come in handy or be > > faster than what cf8 does already? > > It sounds interesting. > > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > > I am getting ready to release an open source application platform built > > on > > > CF 8 using Model-Glue and Coldspring that handles: > > > > > > - arbitrary complex data types, including nested data types > > > - role-based security and identity management > > > - enterprise search > > > - integration with Flex and AJAX > > > - security on data types and data objects > > > - data object versioning > > > - easy implementation of extensions to the core without modification to > > the > > > core > > > > > > > > > I don't have a name for it yet. I started with RoseCMS (actually Rose > > > Canyon, which is the canyon behind my house), but this is not a CMS, > it's > > > an > > > application platform. RoseCMS is a small open-source CMS that is an > > > implementation of the platform, but I see the platform as something > > > separate. > > > > > > Thoughts? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:289845 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
