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March 10, 2008

ColdFusion Open-Source Update - March 10, 2008

One new project and five updates this week. So, this was gonna be the week of MXUnit but BlueDragon went and stole their thunder. Yes, I know about the announcement, obviously, but just a reminder that this list is projects built with CFML. I hope to have more to say about the BD announcement tomorrow.

New Releases and Updates

New Project: CFC Spry Rating
CFC Spry Rating on RIAForge
Gary Gilbert created this project which generates a star rating widget.

ColdExt
ColdExt Alpha 3 with GridPanel support
Justin Carter updated his Ext wrapper including support for GridPanels.

Fusebox
An Architect's View - Fusebox 5.5.1 is available
A minor bug fix release especially important for the "no-XML" style usage.

Kinky Calendar
Kinky Calendar Leap Year Update
Ben Nadel fixes a leap year issue.

Lightwire
Critical Error in LightWire - Patch Available
Peter Bell fixes some missing var scoping on his inversion of control component.

MXUnit
MXUnit Eclipse plugin updates
Some enhancements to the Eclipse plugin.

Announcements

FarCry
Google Summer of Code for ColdFusion?
Daemon is joining this year's Google Summer of Code with their FarCry framework.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

Fusebox
Fusebox 5.5.1 available and some things to know
Some things to consider regarding the recent update.

Illudium PU-36 Code Generator
Illudium - Outside Its Flex Front-End
Chris Phillips shows the changes he made to Illudium to allow it to run outside of the Flex front-end.

MXUnit
MXUnit
Sean Corfield discusses why he has moved from CFCUnit to MXUnit and the pros and cons of the unit testing framework.

Taming the MXUnit Ecplise Plugin with Apache Alias
Paul Marcotte shows how to fix your setup if your component path doesn't resolve from the web root.

Transfer
Transfer: Talking and Training at WebDU
Mark Mandel will be presenting Transfer at this year's WebDU.

Cloning Transfer Decorators
Brian Ghidinelli shows how to create a clone() method in your decorator.

Mach-II
Hands-on Mach-II: Let GreatBizTools Show You the Way
Judith Dinowitz previews the cf.Objective() pre-conference training.

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