Presenting Mango at the University of California, Irvine

I will present Mango and its accompanying paper at the UROP Symposium at the University of California, Irvine this Saturday May 13. By looking at the frappr map, I don't think there are many CF developers around here in Orange County, but you don't have to be a developer to attend since everybody is invited.

Presentation: 2:20 PM (Room 242)
Poster Session: 1:00pm - 1:50pm
Humanities Building
University of California, Irvine

Hope to see you there!

Abstract 

Blogs have become a popular vehicle for communicating ideas, information sharing and journal publishing. Several blog "engines" are available that allow individual bloggers to get started with relative ease. Most engines are constrained to a specific implementation, for example using PHP and MySQL, or are otherwise unable to support the customization and extensibility expected by today's bloggers. This paper describes the Mango project, addressing the above shortcomings by providing an open-source, extensible and customizable blog engine that uses and benefits from Adobe ColdFusion.
Mango's architecture is easily extended by the use of plugins, custom tags and interchangeable skins. In addition, most blog engines today do not provide full-text indexing of the content. Mango blog uses the built-in Verity indexing engine to allow full-text searches. Mango exposes administrative tasks in several popular formats, and syndication data in the form of RSS and ATOM feeds. Thus, the content of blog postings can be modified from a number of different clients and can be accessed by any RSS reader. Currently, Mango is used at UCI in a classroom environment for team communication and document publication. We plan to make it available for public download as soon as the initial tests have been passed. A demo and documentation can be found at http://www.mangoblog.org