ColdFusion Open-Source Update - August 14
Posted on Aug 14, 2006
Another active week with few of the usual suspects. In fact, once again there are several new projects to announce including FlexMon, CodeCop, ColdSparx and some Red Ballon Labs projects. It is great to see the ColdFusion open source community growing rapidly, but man you guys are gonna eat up my Mondays so keep it at a measured pace ;) I need to add a few items to the list, but I will be listing over 120 projects, which is awesome considering that the original blog post back in december had less than 80 I believe...and also taking into account a considerable growth in new projects lately.FlexMon
ColdFusion Monitoring Application Released
Tariq Ahmed made an initial release of an open-source ColdFusion monitoring application that uses Flex and offers some basic metrics on your ColdFusion server(s) and can work with SeeFusion. The application has since been updated to version 0.2. For more details on the application, you can go to the project page at http://www.cflex.net/FlexMon/
CodeCop
Beta Released
Steve Bryant released a beta of his CodeCop application that was built as an entry to Ray Camden's advanced ColdFusion coding contest. CodeCop verifies code against a user configurable set of rules with varying severity levels and gives reports based upon those rules. This is a nice way to ensure that yours or a coworkers work adhere to certain coding guidelines or styleguides. For the purposes of the coding contest, Ray wrote an extensive review of the application (some issues Steve has already addressed in the beta linked above).
ColdSparx
Version 0.1 Initial Release
ColdSparx is a Sparkline solution for ColdFusion. Sparklines (as far as I understand it) are tiny graphics no larger than the words that they are intermixed with that are intended to convey some additional meaning or intensity to information within a page. While this may not be the clearest description, the football record example on this page made the concept a little clearer. I am hoping the author can provide a little more information on how this would be used as I am still a little lost by the concept to be quite honest.
Misc.: RedBalloon Labs Projects
DataGrid Released
Red Balloons labs continued releasing the projects they discussed a couple weeks ago. This past week they released a datagrid that simplifies paging, filtering and sorting of large data sets.
Message Handler Released
Red Balloons also released a message handler designed to simplify and standardize communication between your application and your end-user via message blocks.
Fusebox
Lexicons for ColdSpring and Reactor
Nathan Strutz has written some custom lexicons (which are a new to Fusebox 5) to simplify working with ColdSpring and Reactor.
PicViewer
Update Released
Some minor updates to allow for changing the application name via the config and allowing you to turn off password protection.
CanvasWiki
CanvasWiki Updated
Version 1.4 was released earlier in the week and contained some changes to how titles were displayed as well as an Oracle script. The 1.4.1 update included a change to include fully rendered pages within the email notifications.
LylaCaptcha
Web Site Updated
Ben Ellefson of the Twin Cities CFUG donated an improved web site for LylaCaptcha (as opposed to its former minimalistic design - i.e. text only).
Comments
- http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/7/27/cf_pdfform
Fred
Posted By fgwenger / Posted on 08/14/2006 at 4:13 PM