Creating Mango pods - Part 1: Simple Template Pods
Adam has written a guide on how to create Mango pods. In this first part, he covers simple template pods. Those are pods that must be added to the skin template. A must read if you create your own skins.
Last.fm plugin
Seb Duggan has created a plugin that will show your recently-listened tracks on Last.fm. You can read more and download from Seb's blog.
BasePlugin.cfc
In Mango 1.3, we added a BasePlugin component that you can extend and it will facilitate doing many of the functions common to all plugins. You can read about it at Seb's blog post: BasePlugin.cfc in Mango 1.3
Plugin development in Mango 1.3
Mango 1.3 includes some new features that will come in handy when developing a Mango plugin. The key new features are auto-installation, auto-copying of plugin assets files (scripts, images etc.) and a BasePlugin component (which you will have to include in your plugin folder to be able to extend from it).
You can read the details at Seb's post: Plugin development in Mango 1.3
jQuery plugin
Seb Duggan has created a plugin that will let you add the jQuery Javascript library whenever you need it. You can read more and download from Seb's blog at: jQuery plugin for Mango. This is of special interest to those developing plugins.
