NearCry Release Candidate

[modius]

Folks,

Pretty close to wrapping up an initial release of NearCry blogging
engine. May or may not be delayed pending the release of FarCry 5.1.
We'll see. Seems to run just fine on 5.0.2.

For those wanting to give it a whirl, any and all feedback welcome.
The distro is a complete standalone package -- running the bleeding
edge build of everything.

Latest build can always be found here:
http://www.farcrycore.org/builds/

Temporary home of project:
http://docs.farcrycms.org/display/FCPLUG/FarCry+Blog

For installation:
You will need a blank database and a ColdFusion datasource configured
and ready to go.
Drop the ./farcry directory into your webroot and browse to
http://yourdomain/farcry

You can see it in action here:
http://blog.daemon.com.au/

Currently the Daemonite blog is a vanilla install of NearCry with the
Skittlish skin. No doubt i'll get to modding it later ;)

Enjoy!

Geoff Bowers
Daemonite

[Marco van den Oever]

Awesome! Thanks a lot for all you and all others do for us :)

[Nick]

How much effort do you think would be involved if one wanted to add
this to an existing farcry install as a plugin only?

On Aug 14, 10:38 am, modius <mod...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Pretty close to wrapping up an initial release of NearCry blogging
> engine.  May or may not be delayed pending the release of FarCry 5.1.
> We'll see. Seems to run just fine on 5.0.2.
>
> For those wanting to give it a whirl, any and all feedback welcome.
> The distro is a complete standalone package -- running the bleeding
> edge build of everything.
>
> Latest build can always be found here:http://www.farcrycore.org/builds/
>
> Temporary home of project:http://docs.farcrycms.org/display/FCPLUG/FarCry+Blog
>
> For installation:
> You will need a blank database and a ColdFusion datasource configured
> and ready to go.

> Drop the ./farcry directory into your webroot and browse tohttp://yourdomain/farcry

[Derek West]

I did without much difficulty but I haven't done the install the way the Wiki says (new install option) so I don't know if I'm missing anything. In development, it's working quite nice for me.

Derek.

[Blair McKenzie]

The main difference between the NearCry distribution and just installing the blog and skin plugins is that NearCry has a webtop targeted towards blog writers. If you just use the plugin you will have a normal webtop structure.

Blair

[modius]

On Aug 21, 10:12 am, "Blair McKenzie" <shi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The main difference between the NearCry distribution and just installing the
> blog and skin plugins is that NearCry has a webtop targeted towards blog
> writers. If you just use the plugin you will have a normal webtop structure.

Also, NearCry sample project and skins leverage a new approach to
building out webskins that makes the process of re-skinning or theming
sites really easy. It's possible that the skin changer will not work
all that well for you if you are deploying into an existing
application that has not used this approach.

In short, the webskin templates are held in the skin plugin, and the
project itself has few if any webskins. That way we can change the
entire look and feel by changing the pluin list and not have to worry
about the project. If you have skins in your project they will
*always* override plugin skins of the same name and so changing the
skin plugin may have little or no effect.

geoff
http://www.daemon.com.au/