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Here's a sample itinerary involving a few of our partners. If you are planning a weekend out in Manchester over the next few weeks you really should check out the parkinnwin.co.uk website. Saving galore!

Lots more offers are still being added! O, and I forgot, the biggest, a chance to win a whole years stay at the ParkInn Manchester!

I have just been informed on the Google Group for Slatwall Ecommerce that the hardworking Mura team have push out a minor update recently. The change in version 5.4.4456 + allows you better integration for ORM within your Mura plugins. True to the style of BR, it's super easy to configure too.

Within your plugin config XML file just add the following attribute...

You can also configure custom tags paths with the new tag attribute, which is cool! Greg and the ten24 team that created the Slatwall Ecommerce Plugin have been making real good use of this new feature. See for yourself by download at GitHub.

Gencia Media Limited has received FOUR Public Sector Awards Nominations for its innovative campaign on sexual violence in the UK.

The campaign - commissioned by Wrexham Community Safety Partnership - has been shortlisted by How Do in the 'Most Innovative use of New Media', 'Best Community Relations Campaign', 'Best Integrated Communications Campaign' and 'Most Effective Use of Social Marketing' categories.

The campaign written in ColdFusion using the Framework ColdBox and JQTouch embraces mobile media and the web to engage young people on their thoughts and attitudes towards a range of scenarios surrounding sex and alcohol.

Coverage ran further than the local area, with radio stations and the BBC picking up on the innovative nature of delivery while the Home Office commented favourably on the manner in which such a sensitive and traditionally difficult subject managed to engage so many young people.

Speaking about the nomination, Tony Braide Gencia Company Director said:

"Educating young people on Sexual Violence is an extremely sensitive yet vital issue and mobile media has enabled us to reach more people in a private, engaging and measurable way.

It was a challenge delivering such a serious campaign in the 3 week timescale we had and we're absolutely thrilled to be recognised for our part in the campaign."

Gencia is now working extensively with schools around the UK to combat attitudes and perceptions around a range of risky behaviours including alcohol, drugs and unprotected sex.

You know when you see code and you think, WTF LOL! Well, that was me today when I saw this...

I mean, when do they say, that's it, maybe I should be doing this another way!

Out with the old and in with the new, as they say (whoever they are). My blog was looking a little dated, so a fresh skin from styleshout + a free hour and magic! There are still a few bits here and there to tidy but on the whole a nice theme from styleshout I think.

I wish BlogCFC had a consistent theming scheme or a theming engine! It was easy but little separation from the core files makes updating a pain in the butt.

A few new Coldbox powered sites pushed live of this month.

EntryMaster. A sports registration gateway for the UK market using ColdBox to power a custom CMS and payment system.

Zurich, but you need to login to access via SimplyBiz.

Whats Next

Coming next month MonsterHunt.co.uk. A AR game powered by ColdBox. Lots of press for this one leading up to Halloween so watch this space, its going to be cool! The Zombies are coming!

It's been hard for me to get my head around CF9 ORM and ColdBox. The first mistake was using ORM within ColdBox for the first time. My life would have been easy if I had just started at the beginning with ORM. Why did I do it! Why!

Anyhow, I am committed! Truly, exciting and frustrated at the same time. The ColdBox support group is really helpful and if I may say incredibly patient at helping me with my stupid questions!

Over the next few weeks I am going to write up my own experiences with ORM and set up a demo using the M6 version of ColdBox. It won't be from an authority point of view, but from a beginners venture into ORM. In the mean time I want to just remind people of a post Luis made about community and support.

Post Here

Luis gives back so much with this Framework it's made my life a lot easier, if it's helped you, then why not do your bit to.

I have had requests for an example of the CFC I used in the "Creating a simple Layar with ColdFusion" Tutorial. I decided to comment on the CFC and upload it to RIAForge. So if anyone wants it you can find the project there

It's only a example of what's needed to create POI's and Actions. POI, and objects. However you should be pulling these from a database!

I would love to know what others are doing with Layar at the moment.

The feedback and press have started to come in for the She Says, She Says campaign created by Gencia Media which used ColdFuson and the framework ColdBox to power a mobile application to help awareness of teen sexual violence and rape. Read the full article on the BBC here

I tried, I really did! I didn't want to get pulled into the world of Twitter but I was just missing too much within the CF community. I mean who is really interested in reading my random crap, but I am now finding other peoples random crap strangely addictive!

Anyway, if you DO want to read 'my random crap' then you now can. My user name is glynjackson see you there!