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100 ColdFusion Open-Source Projects

Posted on May 15, 2006

So the ColdFusion Open-Source List hit a milestone of sorts the other day when I added the 100th project to the list. While the milestone is somewhat arbitrary since I don't list every project by excercising a very limited set of editorial control (and not all the projects are fully open-source), I do think it is reflective of a tangible sense of momentum in support of open-source within the ColdFusion community. So let me start by saying thanks to all the open-source contributors out there.

I also wanted to solicit opinions on how I can improve the list. Based on my statistics I can see that it gets steady traffic, but I also think it can be improved. For instance, as it grows I am getting the sense that it is becoming a bit unweildy and finding the specific link you are looking for can be slightly cumbersome. So, how could this be improved? Are there any features outside of just listing projects that you would like to see (for example, someone once mentioned a forum)? I would love to hear from regular users as well as open-source contributors...please share.

Comments

Tag the entries with keywords, a tag cloud would not only help us get to the links easier and see some new links, but also what certain keywords are covered and what still needs work...

Posted By Ryan Guill / Posted on 05/15/2006 at 10:02 PM

I think my suggestion is basically the same as Ryan's, I was going to suggest associating multiple keywords with each project, so that for example my SFTP utility could be under, files, transfer, utility, security. for example.

Posted By michael traher / Posted on 05/16/2006 at 3:13 AM

It would be good to know the status of these projects, such as when these were last updated. For instance, CFMyAdmin's last release was in 2004 when MySQL was at 3.x. It seems not to have been actively worked on since then. I know this would mean a lot of work to ascertain the current status of each project, but this would help in evaluating whether to use these project or not in our own work.

Posted By Lola Lee Beno / Posted on 05/16/2006 at 5:27 AM

Please add IgniteFusion to your list of cool stuff.
IgniteFusion is a free CFML engine that can run coldfusion pages
on your machine by installing a single executable (No java needed).

Posted By Peter Hazos / Posted on 05/17/2006 at 11:36 PM