ColdFusion Open-Source Update - April 23
Posted on Apr 23, 2007
Three new projects and eight updates this week, so I would call that a busy week, especially considering how antiquated the ColdFusion community is ;)
New Releases and Updates
New Project: Bender
Bender Alpha Release
This highly anticipated project by Toby Tremayne serves as a bridge between your Flex application and Mark Mandel's Transfer ORM. It is finally available for download in an early alpha version.
Mind-Bender
Earlier in the week, Toby talked about his progress with Bender and the ways in which he was looking at handling instantiation.
New Project: cfTimeline
cfTimeline Released
Todd Sharp has released his implementation of the SIMILE Timeline project's Ajax timeline as an open source project on RIAForge after toying with charging for it. His demo looks really interesting, plotting MXNA posts across a draggable timeline.
New Project: SecurityCode
Initial Release
This project by Rick Smith creates a Flash-based CAPTCHA for preventing form spam.
CodeCop
CodeCop 1.0 Released
Steve Bryant has updated his code checking application originally written for Ray Camden's advanced coding contest. The great thing about this application is its ability to accept custom rules to check compatibility for.
AVBlog
AVBlog updates
Andrea Veggiani has updated the FCKEditor and TinyMCE versions included in his blogging application, as well as including Rick Root's CFFM file manager application.
BlogCFC
Happy Release Day
Ray Camden has updated the RSS and search code in his blogging application.
Canvas
Happy Release Day
Same post, different application by Ray includes a lot of changes, many by Mark Mazelin.
Harlan
Happy Release Day
Dude, same post again?!?! It's enough to make someone switch to PHP ;) Anyway, Ray has updated his ad server application.
LightHouse
Happy Release Day
Bug fixes to the bug tracker.
cfcBlaster
cfcBlaster update
Mike Rankin has updated his code generator which now has a new branch to add MySQL support. In addition, it includes some basic HTML list and form page scaffolds and cfUnit support.
Transfer
Transfer 0.6.3 Goes Final!
Mark Mandel's ORM application goes from 0.6.3 RC2 to 0.6.3 Final but both are equivalent in terms of features.
Announcements
FarCry
Farcry 4.0 filename standards
Michael Sharman of Daemon discusses the new file naming convention being used in FarCry to help eliminate case-sensitivity issues.
ColdBox
More ColdBox Guides!! and 2.0.0 News!
Two new guides have been added to Luis Majano's MVC Framework's already extensive documentation, including a guide on integrating ColdSpring.
Mach-II
Mach-II 1.5: Coding Session
Peter Farrell and Kurt Wiersma have been coding away at version 1.5.
Mach-II On BlueDragon 7: No Problems
Matt Woodward reports that Mach II works fine in his tests on BlueDragon 7.
DataMgr
Self-Referential Many-To-Many Relationships
Steve Bryant explains the complication of self-referential joins as they pertain to DataMgr and asks for suggestions on how to implement them.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
BlogCFC
FCKeditor with BlogCFC and protecting tags
Joshua Cyr discusses adding FCKEditor to BlogCFC and its effect on things like the <more/> tag.
cfcUnit
cfcUnit Facade for CFUnit Plugin
Sean Corfield posted a component that lets you use cfcUnit with the CFUnit plugin for CFEclipse.
cfcUnit and Eclipse integration
Sean Corfield discusses his efforts looking into the CFUnit plugin for Eclipse and modifying it for cfcUnit.
cfcUnit 1.2 ANT Task Buildfile Sample
Andrew Powell posts a sample ANT task for automating cfcUnit tests within Eclipse.
Reactor
Modifying Reactor to work with BlueDragon 7 JX
Dave Shuck talks about the changes he had to make to Reactor to get it working on BlueDragon 7.
Comments
The post is at http://musetracks.instantspot.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/4/19/BlogCFC-Enhancement.
Posted By Rob Wilkerson / Posted on 04/24/2007 at 11:37 AM