ColdFusion Open-Source Review

Posted on Oct 30, 2005

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, but at work I am stuck in the land of copy-paste globalization and any improvement to that situation seems mired in corporate politics and bureaucracy. Besides that, I have been a proponent of a regular column in CFDJ covering open-source projects. The growth of open-source available to ColdFusion developers in the past three years has been fantastic, and I think belies the common perception that the CF community does not share. For one reason or another (and despite pretty solid community support I think), this doesn't appear as if it will be happening in CFDJ. Therefore, I plan to still proceed with my idea, and post them here.

My first "article" will cover Barney Boisvert's TreeManager CFC. I am about 90% complete with a flash form based tree administration tool that relies upon a (modified) version of TreeManager CFC. The nice thing is it utlizes a number of techniques in order to manage the tree without any page loads (other than the initial of course). I expect to be complete with this within the next day or so, and will write up the results (and make the code available).

My hope is that by doing something like this I am able to promote a CF open-source project and offer some help to people who may wish to use it. This doesn't exclude CFDJ deciding to run this column of course (I still think it is probably the proper location to reach the broadest audience), but until they change their mind, at least the idea has a home.

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skorpiun I am the PM of CFUnit...
http://cfunit.sourceforge.net

I would love to see an article on this project if you are still looking for more open-source projects to review.

Posted By skorpiun / Posted on 10/31/2005 at 8:30 AM

Michael van Leest Well there was a project started to port over the PHPBB to a coldfusion version, but due to the lack on good teamleaders the project ended before it even started.

But if people would like to lead this project, it is 100% doable, because there were about 60+ developers willing to contribute to the project! Maybe something for an article in the CFDJ ;)

Posted By Michael van Leest / Posted on 10/31/2005 at 8:31 AM

Brian Rinaldi Thanks for the links. I was aware of both projects, and I am definitely open to ideas regarding items to cover. I have what I think is an extensive list of projects that I am aware of, but maybe part of this concept can include a place to maintain a list of projects that are out there as I know of nowhere where such a list already exists (and also, so people can inform me of projects that I am not already aware of yet). Would this be a worthwhile addition?

Posted By Brian Rinaldi / Posted on 10/31/2005 at 9:36 AM

Michael van Leest www.freecoldfusionapplications.com
But this is not a real Open Source list of Coldfusion apps.
I would definitly find it usefull if publish your list of known Open Source CF apps!

btw, I'm trying to setup a new communtiy for FLex and Coldfusion developers (with the idea of Flex 2 coming out). www.cfflex.com. This site will also include some open source apps in the future.

If you need any help with anything, just let me know ;)

Michael

Posted By Michael van Leest / Posted on 10/31/2005 at 9:40 AM

Brian Rinaldi Just wanted to let you know that I posted the list at http://www.remotesynthesis.com/blog/index.cfm/2005/11/1/ColdFusion-OpenSource-Project-List

Posted By Brian Rinaldi / Posted on 11/01/2005 at 2:55 PM

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My name is Brian Rinaldi and I am the Web Community Manager for Flash Platform at Adobe. I am a regular blogger, speaker and author. I also founded RIA Unleashed conference in Boston. The views expressed on this site are my own & not those of my employer.