ColdFusion Open-Source Update - August 20
Posted on Aug 20, 2007
Five new projects and two updates this week (and like 1,000 tutorial and presentation posts). Here I am in New Hampshire on vacation with the family and yet I am posting my weekly updates. Thus is my devotion to the ColdFusion community that not StoryLand nor Mt. Washington can stand in its way.
New Releases and Updates
New Project: CFlickr
Initial Release
Chris Blackwell has created a wrapper for the Flickr API.
CFlickr, run, run flickr run.
Gary Gilbert discusses the new project by Chris Blackwell.
New Project: CCTApp
Initial Release
Tom de Manincor created this as an application skeleton for integrating ColdBox, ColdSpring and Transfer.
New Project: Kinky Calendar
Kinky Calendar Is Now An Official Kinky Solutions Project
Ben Nadel has released his calendar system as a separate project following his recent series on creating it.
New Project: POI Utility
POI Utility CFC Released
So, this isn't really new, but I didn't realize that Ben Nadel had released his component for working with Excel documents after his series on how he built it.
New Project: CFExplorer
New ColdFusion 8 Project Released - cfcExplorer
Todd Sharp has released a ColdFusion 8 Ajax version of his CFCFlexplorer for examining component metadata.
Mach-II
Mach-II 1.5 RC1 Released
Kurt Wiersma announces that the first release candidate of the upcoming version of Mach-II is now available for download.
IBO
IBO Sample Code
Peter Bell has updated his generic business object with some sample code to show implementation.
Announcements
ColdBox
ColdBox 2.1.0 wishlist, what do you want?
Luis Majano is soliciting feedback for the upcoming version of his framework.
NewBee
What's happening with newBee? (Kind of a Roadmap)
Trond Ulseth discusses what he is working on for his MVC framework.
Illudium PU-36 Code Generator
PostgreSQL adapter for Illudium PU-36 Code Generator
Brian Ghidinelli has written a PostgreSQL adapter for my code generator (soon to be included in the project when I get the time).
FarCry
Farcry 4.0.3 for BlueDragon 7.0
New Atlanta is hosting a version of FarCry that works with BD7.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
Various
Paul Marcotte is continuing his series on creating a system to auto-generate scaffolds for a site administration system:
Scaffolding a Generic Admin - Part 3 - Illudium Code Generator Template
Scaffolding a Generic Admin - Part 4 - Introduction to Dispatcher
Scaffolding a Generic Admin - Part 5 - Dispatcher, Transfer and ColdSpring Setup and Config
ColdSpring
ColdSpring - Locating CFC's outside Web Root???
Dan Lancelot discusses an issue he had trying to use CFCs that were outside the web root.
Various
Rails' ActiveRecord, Reactor, Illudium: All backwords for OO.
Joe Rinehart talks about how, from an domain model design perspective, most tools available to simplify the process work "backwards" because they rely on database metadata.
Model-Glue
Mark Drew Continues his series of simple tips to help you develop Model-Glue applications:
Model Glue Tips Part 6: Create a services directory to keep your model tidy
Model Glue Tips Part 7: Set myself in your views
Adding Spry includes in a Model Glue template
Andy Jarrett offers this tutorial.
Transfer
Workshop: Mark Mandel - Developing Applications with Transfer ORM
Nick Tong announces Mark Mandel's upcoming presentation on August 30th.
CFFrameworks presentation - Developing Applications with Transfer ORM
Mark Mandel announces his presentation and that he may preview the composite key functionality he is working on.
ColdBox
Creating Printable Views From Your Existing ColdBox Methods
Russ Johnson has a tutorial on creating printable versions of your pages within the ColdBox framework.
CFCUnit
CFCUnit + FlexUnit How-To: No excuses now!
Joe Rinehart offers this extensive tutorial.
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