Viewing by month: September 2006
Subversion 1.4 Released
Posted on Sep 12, 2006
Caught this on Digg. Subversion version 1.4 was released some time yesterday. The changes listed in the release notes are:
* svnsync, a new repository mirroring tool
* Huge working-copy performance improvements
* Support for BerkeleyDB 4.4 and its "auto recovery" feature
* Size improvements to the binary delta algorithm
* A handful of new command switches
* Many improved APIs
* More than 40 new bugfixes
I was going to upgrade my installation at work, but I am running on running svn on Windows and didn't see a 1.4 installer for Windows yet (Windows versions can be found here). They do have a binaries zip, but I need to "-setup" installer for idiots :)
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ColdFusion Open-Source Update - September 11
Posted on Sep 11, 2006
The past week was a busy one in ColdFusion open-source. Three new projects were released, including two from Joe Danziger and one from Jeff Houser, as well as a number of important updates to exisitng projects and presentations.
Using Lyla CAPTCHA Without CFContent
Posted on Sep 11, 2006
Robert Froehling wrote to Peter Farrell and me the other day offering a solution he had developed to incorporating Peter's open-source Lyla CAPTCHA on a host that prevents the use of cfcontent. Robert was using my original post about incorporating Lyla into BlogCFC. However, I have updated the more general example that I used for my CFDJ article using the code he provided and attached it to this post (it should be noted that he credits posts from Christian Cantrell and Mark Kruger for helping him solve this problem).
More Code Generator Updates - Oracle Support
Posted on Sep 10, 2006
I have just committed new changes to the Illudium PU-36 Code Generator that add Oracle support. As I know nothing about Oracle, this code was generously donated by Beth Bowden, so I want to send her a special thank you.
She also made some suggestions for the generated code, one of which I have already implemented as it will improve Oracle and MySQL support. I do need people who are interested in utlizing the Oracle support to let me know the outcome of their testing.
Lastly, if you are using the code generator and have made your own custom methods or modified the prebuilt generated code, feel free to contribute those for possible inclusion in future updates. I would love to see the project contain alternate component code for users to choose as the point of this was in large part to make it extremely easy to customize.
The project can be found (and downloaded via Subversion) at http://code.google.com/p/cfcgenerator/.
Code Generator Updates
Posted on Sep 08, 2006
I have updated the Illudium PU-36 Code Generator ("Where's the Kaboom? There should have been an earth shattering kaboom."). There are a number of bug fixes that have been added in the since I launched it. The major change in the recent update is that the mssql queries have been totally rewritten to *hopefully* fix incompatibility issues with changes in MS SQL Server 2005. I do not actually have 2005, so I am hoping for testers in the community to assist. You can download the latest version via Subversion by browsing the product page at http://code.google.com/p/cfcgenerator/. If everything is ok, maybe we can call this version 0.5. I am hoping to overhaul the UI as a next step. Also, if anyone would like to add database support outside of the included MySQL and MS SQL, please contact me. It really isn't very difficult, but I don't have experience outside of the included dbs.