ColdFusion Open-Source Update - April 30

New Releases and Updates

New Project: iRead Pod for BlogCFC
Initial Release
An add-on for Raymond Camden's BlogCFC by Rob Wilkerson, iRead allows you to add a list of blogs you read, including a link to a selection of articles by tha author. It also includes an Ajax version that uses Google's Feed API.

New Project: OracleAED
Initial Release
This project by Mark Fennell creates a "quick and dirty" tool for adding/editing/deleting records.

New Project: CFOpenID
Inital Release
This may not be new, but it was new to me (learned about it through Tracy Logan's post), but this project by Arjun Kalura is another Coldfusion implementation of OpenID consumer specification

ColdBox
ColdBox 2.0.0 Final Release is here, Come and Get it!!
Luis Majano has released a major update to his MVC framework including a long list of new features including an object cache manager, new debugging panel and the ColdBox Dashboard Application 2.0. This framework has seemed to be gaining some traction lately with a growing number of developer blogs discussing it and certainly the new release sounds interesting.

toXML
toXML Component Updated
Ray Camden has updated his component for converting many ColdFusion data types to XML.

CheckoutCFC
CheckoutCFC - the one with logging
Scott Pinkston has released version 0.9 of his Google Checkout component that includes basic and advanced logging features.

Announcements

Bender
Bender goes Alpha - No More Vapourware!
Mark Mandel comments comments on the recent release of Toby Tremayne's Flex to Transfer bridge.

Fusebox
Fusebox 5 Book!
Sean Corfield announces that Jeff Peters has released his latest book, "Fusebox 5 & FLiP: Master-Class ColdFusion Applications."

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

Transfer
cf.Objective() Transfer Preview Recording
Mark Mandel gave a preview of his presentation to cf.Objective() to the Online ColdFusion Meetup Group and links ot the recording here.

MachBlog
Providing your OpenID in ColdFusion, part 1: MachBlog
Tracy Logan shows how to connect your OpenId registration with your blog, specifically MachBlog, to validate your identity on OpenId enabled sites.

LightWire
cfFrameworks.com workshop: Peter Bell on Lightwire
Peter Bell is doing the first in a series of workshops planned by Kola and Nick and it will be held on May 9th at 7pm GMT.

DataMgr
Presenting DataMgr to ColdFusion Meetup
Steve Bryant discusses his recent presentation to the Online ColdFusion Meetup Group.

Presenting DataMgr to ColdFusion Meetup
Joshua Cyr reviews Steve Bryant's DataMgr presentation to the Online ColdFusion Meetup group.

ColdFusion Meeting - DataMgr Review
Phil Duba reviews Steve's presentation as well.

Closures for ColdFusion
Another great use for closures
Sam Larbi follows up on his "Why Closures Are Useful" post with another example of why you woul duse closures.

ImageCFC
Image manipulation with imageCFC v2.14
Michael Sharman covers the most recent release of imageCFC and the "cropToExact" addition.

FarCry
FarCry Example: Hope Center
Jake Churchill shows a site he recently launched as an example of what can be built using FarCry.