ColdFusion Open-Source Update - April 21, 2008

One new project and six updates this week. It is another Patriot's Day in Boston and another marathon and a beautiful day weather-wise, but I spent my morning continuing my frustrating journey into two-way encryption between Flex and CF. Yes, it's about as fun as it sounds. At least there are some interesting updates this week including major updates to Mango Blog and ColdBox.

New Releases and Updates

New Project: Reflect
Initial Release
Michael Steele's project allows the creation of component proxies.

ColdBox
ColdBox 2.6.0 Beta 1 is now available.
This release adds per application conventions, onMissingAction(), an execution profiler monitor and more.

imageUtils
imageUtils gets some Tiff love
Daniel Budde II adds TIFF related functions to imageUtils.

Mango Blog
Version 1.0 released
Mango is officially out of beta! Mango now has user roles and permissions, a new file explorer, custom post and page edit panels and more.

Sebtags Custom Tag Set
cf_sebForm Presentation and sebtags Beta 2
Steve Bryant releases the second beta of his custom tag set and presents sebForm to the CF Meetup Group.

WhosOnCFC
WhosOnCFC 2.0.1 Available on RIAForge
Shane Zehnder announces an update to his session tracking component.

YouTube CFC
YouTube CFC Updated
Ray Camden releases a significant update.

Announcements

ColdBox
CFUnited Interview: Luis Majano - ColdBox Framework 101
Nafisa Sabu interviews Luis Majano.

ColdBox 2.6.0 Beta sneek peek + Eclipse Update Site
Luis Majano sneaks some info out via the release notes update. Also, the Eclipse plugin is now available.

ColdSpring
Get Your ColdSpring (et al)!
Barney Boisvert talks about th growth in the ColdSpring community.

Enterprise Media Asset Management
Mailinglist for our open source Digital Asset Management
There is now a mailing list for the soon to be open-source digital asset management application.

FarCry
FarCry Picnik & Keyword Plugins
See a demo of two FarCry plugins.

FarCry 5.0 (Fortress) eSeminar Recording
Watch an eSeminar on the FarCry CMS.

Model-Glue
Sharing MG ColdSpring Beans With Other Applications
Joe Rinehart shows how to share beans outside Model-Glue and a Flex application, for example.

MG3 and CF Framework Performance Benchmarks
Joe Rinehart shares some performance comparisons with other frameworks.

Transfer
TransferORM gets closer to 1.0 release
Dan Wilson sneaks some scoop on the upcoming 1.0 release of Transfer.

YouTube CFC
First draft of new YouTube API
Ray Camden shares the new API for his YouTube integration component.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

CFJSON
JSON, jQuery and ColdFusion
John Whish offers some advice on working with JSON, though check the comments for some important clarifications.

ColdBox
Using Mapped Views in ColdBox
Matt Quackenbush shows how to use the Request Contect Decorator.

ColdSpring
Building ColdFusion services with ColdSpring and Reactor, part 5
Tom Chiverton continues his tutorial series.

Scatting with ColdSpring
Dominic Watson shares a proof of concept.

Fusebox
Solve the ColdFusion Component or Interface fusebox5.Application Error
John Whish offers this tutorial.

Fusebox 5.5 cheat sheet
Nathan Strutz updates his cheat sheat.

Transfer
Transfer and Flex: Part 1
Kyle Hayes does the first in a series on how to use Flex with Transfer, which isn't easy.

Transfer Cache Synchronization in a Cluster
Sean Corfield offers this tutorial.

varScoper
Check out varScoper
Raymond Camden advocates the varScoper tool to ensure you have properly var scoped your local component method variables.

Hi,
I've updated my post on JSON, jQuery and ColdFusion so that it includes the clarifications.
I've also posted an similar example using EXT JS 2
http://www.aliaspooryorik.com/blog/index.cfm/e/posts.details/post/json-ext-2-and-coldfusion-61