ColdFusion Open-Source Update - January 28, 2008

Two updates this week and a number of announcements and tutorials. I actually have 95% of an AIR application built to write these updates practically for me. The last five percent is 2% finishing up the fact that the Google Notebook API only serves up 10 records at a time. The last 3% is trying to build an algorithm to create witty introductions. Unfortunately, the current version fails in this respect.

New Releases and Updates

MXUnit
More MXUnit updates; code generation and eclipse plugin
Marc Esher says that a modified CFCBlaster will be part of an upcoming release. Some bug fixes in the current release.

cfExt
cfext Layouts
Dan Vega talks about some major updates to his Ext custom tag library.

Announcements

Model-Glue
The Model-Glue Cookbook Lives!
Todd Sharp's cookbook site finally has some good content.

Fusebox
Cameron Childress to lead Fusebox documentation project
Title basically says it all.

cfExt
Ext & ColdFusion Server-Side Community Projects
Rey Bango mentions several ColdFusion projects for the Ext JavaScript library which may begin to consolidate.

ColdBox
SSL Interceptor does specific events now, great stuff Ernst
The interceptor has been updated.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

Transfer
Unit Testing Transfer Decorators with CFCUnit, BeanInjector, and ColdMock
Brian Kotek shows how to unit test a Transfer decorator.

Working with Transfer ORM: TQL, MSSQL and Reserved Words
Paul Marcotte informs us that you can't use reserved words for aliases in Transfer.

Model-Glue
Introduction to Model-Glue
Boyan Kostadinov shares the presentation slides from the Central New York ColdFusion User Group.

Validating modelglue.xml against DTD in Eclipse
Brian Ghidinelli shows how to validate with XMLBuddy in Eclipse.

Model-Glue Gleanings, Days 10-20
Brian Ghidinelli continues his series.

Illudium PU-36 Code Generator
I Had Fun Yesterday!
Chris Phillips discusses some modifications he made to my generator and his recent experiences with it.

ColdSpring
Building ColdFusion services with ColdSpring and Reactor, an interlude
Tom includes links to a number of useful posts on ColdSpring.

Soundings
Filtering a Soundings Survey Part 2
Jeffry Houser continues his series.

BlogCFC
BlogCFC, Custom tags and applications
Ray Camden uses BlogCFC to illustrate something about application variables and custom tags.

ColdBox
ColdBox Viewlets: Nifty Little Feature
What are viewlets? Russ Johnson tells us.

"Unfortunately, the current version fails in this respect."

You *did* mean the current, web based version, right??? ;)

Dang it. I thought you were talking about the current AIR version cuz I was gonna say....nevermind.... :D