You Can Shape Slatwall: Full Ecommerce Plug-in for Mura

FusionSell has had a good response and I have had lots of positive emails. One of the emails I received was from Greg Moser. Greg  has already spent a lot of time creating a ecommerce Plug-in for nytro.com, and is now currently developing a full ecommerce plug-in for Mura called Slatwall. Both Greg and I listened  to the same cfhour podcast and the words of Sean Corfield resonated around both our heads.

Greg seems very passionate about open source and ColdFusion, we both came to the conclusion not to double work load. Why end up with two OK products when Slatwall could be a single great product.

Greg has also teamed up with Sumit ,from ten24web.com. They have already helped push the development of the plug-in, and it looks like it could ready for a public release around April. This is really good news, I personally cannot wait to see what Slatwall has to offer us Mura fans.

I won't be working on FusionSell from now on, but instead put my effort when time permits into submitting code for consideration into Slatwall. Can you too!

Slatwall is already ahead of FusionSell and sounds like it has a ardent team on board. My goal with FusionSell was to have a end product that was extendable, easy to use, free and complements Mura. Although Slatwall differs on several aspects of my own methodology, it's end goals are the same. The middle I can live with.  

Slatwall is based on FW/1 so it's easy to pick up. Details and links can be found below. Get involved, even if it's just ideas. Look at the development map. You have a chance to make this product your own. I would suggest join in the Google groups and get involved.

Get Involved

Discussion Group: http://groups.google.com/group/slatwallecommerce/
Documentation: https://github.com/gregmoser/Slatwall/wiki
Source Code: https://github.com/gregmoser/Slatwall

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  1. Matt Woodward's Gravatar # Posted By Matt Woodward
    18/12/10 16:32

    Awesome guys! Great to see this kind of cooperation starting to happen. Can't wait to see the end result!

    This would make a great unconference topic for OpenCF Summit if anyone involved can attend:
    http://www.opencfsummit.org

  1. Mark Fuqua's Gravatar # Posted By Mark Fuqua
    18/12/10 19:30

    It sounds like you came to a well thought out, selfless solution. Kudos. As an aside, you seem to be good, or at least familar with FW/1 and Coldbox, would you recommend one over the other as a first framework for a framework/oop newbie?

  1. Glyn Jackson's Gravatar # Posted By Glyn Jackson
    20/12/10 11:24

    @ mark

    Thanks for the comment. Re frameworks.
    This is a hard one to answer becuase which framework you pick would depend on the project for me.

    If you are asking just which is easy to pick up I would say FW/1. It seems to be a fast basic MVC. Coldbox is more full on. It has lots of tools - end of the day different frameworks have different goals. CB has lots of docs.

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