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ColdFusion Open-Source Update - February 26

Posted on Feb 26, 2007

Another *very* busy week in ColdFusion open-source with four new projects, three updates and dozens of announcements and tutorials. On a side note, if this level of activity keeps up, I am debating splitting the updates out along the lines of the sections below with the thinking that they may be more manageable for me and that these are often getting so long I think many of the stuff towards the bottom gets lost. If I did that I would probably release one Monday, one Wednesday and one Friday (or something like that). Any thoughts from the readers on that? Would this be helpful, unhelpful or make no difference to you? Anyway, enjoy!

New Releases and Updates

New Project: Katapult
Initial Release
John Mason's project is a simple content management system that saves content as html, xml or cfml (i.e. no database is involved).

New Project: metaModel
Initial Release
Another code generator, this one by Cristian Costantini, that generates CRUD, beans and gateway components based upon database metadata.

New Project: CFAdmin Feed Supervisor
Initial Release
This project by Chris Dawes is a ColdFusion Administrator "plugin" that manages both internal and external RSS feeds.

New Project: Kitchen Sync
Initial Release
This project by Rob Gonda is the SVN abstraction layer that manages RIAForge.og. This is still in early alpha and Rob has informed me that he is still working on a number of improvements and fixes that should be out soon, but since it has been publicly available for several weeks, I wanted to make sure I don't overlook it (hope that is ok Rob).

ColdBox
Luis Majano released a new beta build of his MVC framework which was also updated a couple of time during the week (the latest one being the top item on my list below).
ColdBox 1.2.0 Beta Build 446 is now available
ColdBox 1.2.0 Download Updated
ColdBox 1.2.0 Beta is out. Come and get it.

DataMgr
DataMgr 2.0 Release Candidate
The world famous Steve Bryant updated his CRUD/Active Schema application. His post says it is now feature complete, but apparently that has been revised. Nonetheless, 2.0 includes a number of important new features, so check it out.

Canvas
Canvas 2 Beta Refresh
Ray Camden released some updated code for the Cavas 2 beta that fixes a known bug and adds a new feature. Ray also plans on adding multiple wiki support with one install before going final with version 2.

Announcements

Transfer
Mark Mandel talks about his Transfer ORM Framework
Mark Mandel was inteviewed by Nick Tong and Kola Oyedeji of CFFrameworks.com speaking on the topic of his Transfer ORM project. Read the ful details about the interview if you want to know more or you are curious what Mark actually looks like.

ColdBox
ColdBox 1.2.0 API Now available.
The cfcdoc documentation for all the new methods is now available.

ColdBox Trac site now supports PDF Generation
You can now download Trac documentation as PDF files.

ColdBox 1.2.0 Beta Last Known issues Information
The issues list has been updated and you can subscribe via rss.

ColdBox: How long should the Debug Cookie last?
ColdBox knows you are in debug mode by setting a cookie, but Luis asks his users how long that should last before expiring.

Model-Glue
MG 1.x and 2 DTDs, 2.0 Schema
Jared Rypka-Hauer has put together a zip file with the different Model-Glue DTDs and schemas.

Model-Glue Docs In PDF
Todd Sharp PDf'ed the Model-Glue documentation for people to download.

LightBase
URIs in LightBase
Peter Bell discusses his yet-to-be-released framework.

DataMgr
Steve Bryant on DataMgr
An overview of Steve Bryant's presentation to the Nashville CFUG by Steve Blades.

Recorded Presentation: Steve Bryant on DataMgr
Aaron West posts the Connect-o recording of Steve Bryant's CFUG presentation.

DataMgr Tour of Two Cities
Steve Bryant discusses his multi-city DataMgr Tour of NAshville and Boston. Apparently, NAshville had some thoughtful ideas that might make it into 2.0 final.

NewBee
First look at newBee - part 4 (config.xml)
Trond Ulseth continues his introduction to his yet-to-be-released frameowk by detailing more features of the configuration xml.

CFUnit
CFUnit Testimonial
Robert Blackburn received an interesting testimonial from someone at the Johnson Space Center regarding hsi unit testing framework.

Fusebox
Fusebox.org Design Contest Update
Sean Corfield links to the five entries so far in the website design contest.

Fusebox 5.1 - The Major Enhancements
Sean Corfield has updated the 5.1 release notes with detailed information on the three major enhancements it included.

Mach II
Selecting a Version Number - A Slippery Slope?
Peter Farrell discusses approaches regarding version numbering of commercial and open-source projects including a brief discussion of the thoughtfully conservative path that he and Matt have taken.

CFRails
Releasing a Framework
Sammy Larbi addresses some recent, heated debate in the ColdFusion community regarding when one should or should not release a framework when an existing one that is similar exists.

AVBlog
AVBlog 2.0 features request
Andrea Veggiani is asking for user feature requests for the upcoming 2.0 release of his blog application.

Tutorials

Model-Glue
So you want to create a ModelGlue:Unity application? ( Part 9 )
Dan Wilson continues his getting started with Model-Glue series.

Next Steps In Framework Learning
Todd Sharp discusses how his adventure into the world of frameworks led him from originally choosing Mach II to winding up using Model-Glue.

Persistent Application Settings In Model-Glue
Todd also discusses using datasource beans in Model-Glue.

Model-Glue Tip - Marking an event private
Ray Camden offers a simple tip whereby if you mark an event as private, it cannot be accessed via a URL.

FarCry
Matt Williams goies over how he built his first FarCry plugin for FarCry 4:
FarCry plugin breakdown - Part I
Part II
Part III

Galleon
Ray Camden has taken some learning and code from Rob Gonda's Frameworks Conference presentation and is applying it to Galleon, but he and Rob cover some issues with factories related to circular dependencies:
Baby steps in Factory Land (right over the edge of a cliff...)
Object Factories and Circular Dependencies
Followup on last factory/galleon post

Comments

Brian,

This volume certainly does make for a very long post.

Even so, this post is one of the things I look forward to every week. I think that would still be true if you split it up - but less so.

I generally go to the post to find new projects and updates to existing ones and then like seeing the announcements and tutorials on the same page. I am afraid that if they were split up, I might be less likely to read on one of the other days and miss something good (then again, I would probably read it all however you split it up - I don't know).

Anyway, I really love it all in one handy place every week.

Posted By Steve Bryant / Posted on 02/26/2007 at 9:53 AM

Brian,

I love the Open Source Update. I like it all in one spot as well, but I think your idea to split it into 3 parts has merit.

However, my vote goes to whatever is most likely to keep you at it. =)

Posted By Sammy Larbi / Posted on 02/26/2007 at 10:30 AM

I like the idea of 3 parts. The volume is getting big so I think it's a good idea to split off the different sections - gives us more to look forward to reading throughout the week.

Posted By todd sharp / Posted on 02/26/2007 at 11:32 AM

Hi Brian, I love getting the Open Source Updates and although initially I jumped for the idea of a Monday, Wednesday and Friday update, the more I thought about it, keeping it a regular once a week update makes it more valuable. In my opinion (as has happened to other daily updates I receive) the more frequent the updates, the less special they become and I tend to switch off. On the MXNA, I always go straight for your post and enjoy receiving them. Keep up the great work,

Dan.

Posted By Daniel / Posted on 02/26/2007 at 12:18 PM

I think the all-in-one, once-a-week update is a great format. I think it will lose some of its impact and coherence if you break it up.

Posted By Sean Corfield / Posted on 02/26/2007 at 4:16 PM

Ever consider an open-source podcast?

Posted By todd sharp / Posted on 02/26/2007 at 4:29 PM

Now thatÂ?s sublte! Great to hear from you.

Posted By Bayle / Posted on 06/03/2011 at 7:24 AM