ColdFusion Open-Source Update - August 27
Posted on Aug 27, 2007
Four new projects and one update this week. I wanted to take this opportunity to send a thank you to Justin Treher for sending me Super Princess Peach for the Nintendo DS from my wish list. Technically speaking, this game was for my son who is a big time Mario fan though I am totally digging it myself. No, this game isn't too "girlie" - Peach rocks, 'nuff said, though I still prefer Daisy 'cause she's got attitude! ;)
New Releases and Updates
New Project: cfCairngormContacts
Flex, Cairngorm based contact manager on Google Code
Indiver Nagpal has released a sample Flex contact manager with a ColdFusion back-end on Google Code.
New Project: emailParse CFC
Parsing emails in ColdFusion if you can't use CFPOP
Tom Mollerus' new project is a component that will parse emails, allowing you to handle emails that come into the server without needing to establish a connection via CFPOP.
New Project: YouTubeCFC
YouTube API CFC
Ray Camden has created a component to interface with YouTube's REST API that lets you get video and profile information.
YouTube CFC Update and a Demo Site
Ray posted a demo as well as moved the code to RIAForge.
New Project: CF Foto Post
Initial Release
Mike Munhall has posted a photoblog application on RIAForge. Though at this point it is apparently in the very early stages of development, a download is available.
CFMBB
CFMBB 1.23 Released
Rick Root has released an update to his forum application with some new features and bug fixes.
Announcements
Mach II
Hibernate Session Management Plugin For Mach-II
Andrew Powell has released a plugin for Mach II that handles opening and closing a single Hibernate session per request.
Relative Paths for Include and Module Config Files
Peter Farrell posts about the new relative path support in Mach II 1.5 RC1.
SquidHead
Squidhead Future
Terrence Ryan discusses his plans for his scaffolding and code generating application.
Galleon
Calling want-to-be artists - Galleon Logo
Ray Camden is looking for someone to contribute a Galleon logo for the upcoming 2.0 release.
POI Utility CFC
Advice On Balancing Cohesion, Packaging, And God Objects?
Ben Nadel solicits discussion regarding at what point a CFC should be subdivided in relation to his utility for Excel documents in CF.
Creating Excel Files With ColdFusion, XML, And POI
Ben discusses some "proof of concept" type ideas regarding the future development of this project.
FarCry
FarCry - Two New Plugins for CF8 Image Manipulation
Jeff Coughlin released two FarCry plugins, one for CFImage and one for CFImage Effects, the latter including methods for a reflection and a gradient mask.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
Model-Glue
So you want to use Transfer ORM in your ModelGlue:Unity application (Part 1)
Dan Wilson offers this tutorial.
Transfer
Scaffolding a Generic Admin: Now with Transfer!
Mark Mandel offers a brief review of Paul Marcotte's series on scaffolding.
ManyToMany Relationships with Transfer ORM
Brian Ghidinelli posted this tutorial.
Transfer and a Java Loader problem
Andy Jarrett has posted about a known issue with earlier version of Transfer and CF8 which has been resolved in the SVN copy.
Various
Scaffolding a Generic Admin - Part 6 - Bean, Form and List Views - The Finale
Paul Marcotte concludes his series on building a scaffolding system with Illudium, Dispatcher and Transfer.
DataMgr
Checking for Related Records on Deletion
Steve Bryant shows how you can use DataMgr to prevent the deletion of a record where related records exist.
ColdBox
ColdBox and ColdCourse Gotchas
Russ Johnson posted about some difficulties and workarounds he encountered while using ColdCourse for friendly URLs with ColdBox.
Comments
You were supposed to be too busy for games or I would have got you something cooler for your x-box.
:)
Posted By Justin Treher / Posted on 09/30/2007 at 10:53 PM