ColdFusion Open-Source Update - August 7

Definitely not the usual suspects this week. We actually have a handful of new projects to discuss (including my own) and some general updates. Honestly, with all the releases happening lately, I am strongly in need of revamping the list - with 118 projects now and counting, it is getting a bit unwieldy as a just a huge list (granted you can filter, but by default you view all). However, this is a great problem to have; it seems like there is certainly no shortage of ColdFusion developers willing to share with the community.CFAskimet
Initial Alpha Release
Brandon Harper has written a ColdFusion implementation of Askimet, which is a free-for-personal-use service to try to prevent comment and trackback spam without the need for things like CAPTCHA. Since I think most people see CAPTCHA as a necessary evil at this point, it would be interesting to see how effective this service can be. Some people have already discussed testing integration with Ray Camden's blogCFC. You can download the alpha at the project site.

PicViewer
Version 1.0 Released
Todd Sharp's PicViewer is a flash-forms-based application to share pictures behind a password-protected page of a site. The application automatically displays libraries of photos that are in your pic directory. The demo looks simple but effective for its limited purpose.

Illudium PU-36 Code Generator
Initial Alpha Release
Well, this is my own project, but I suppose it deserves mention here no less. The code generator uses the admin API to read table metadata and build copy/paste templates for your beans, DAOs, gateways, services, transfer objects and ColdSpring XML snippet. The project was designed with customizability in mind, so you can easily modify existing functions or add your own functions to the generated code. You can even override the templates for a specific DSN, so that each DSN could, in theory, use their own customized set of templates. By the way, the name reference is to Marvin the Martian...there are fewer Looney Tunes fans amonng CF developers than I had imagined ;)

Misc.: RedBalloon Labs Projects
Coldfusion open source examples
Mark is posting code to handle general tasks like CSV reading and writing, message handling framework, navigation framework and a datagrid. Hispost shows some interesting examples using the code that he will be releasing soon (the CSV functions have already been released - see link above).

DataMgr
Version 1.2 Released
Steve Bryant has added a number of new features to his ORM project to improve/simplify use of the component and fix some outstanding bugs.

cfcUnit
All this talk of cfcUnit is making me nervous...
Paul Kenney discusses some of his work on the upcoming cfcUnit 1.1 release and, specifically, he discusses his challenges and progression on an ANT task.

Mach-II
1.1.1 Release Update
This information came directly from Peter Farrell, so no link, but he says that the development work on 1.1.1 has been completed. The release will be forgoing alpha and be released directly into beta via the Mach-II site sometime within the next couple of weeks. He also says discussions regarding the 2.0 release have already begun within the development team.

ColdBox
1.1 Release Update
This also came directly from Luis Majano, but work on the 1.1 update release is progressing. In addition to some bug fixes (some of which he has discussed recently), the update will include a number of improvements - notably CF 6.x support, plugin development support and integrated var scope checking.

I can throw together a flash forms based tool for "the list" if you'd like (with filters, etc)... Just ping me and let me know if you're interested.

Delighted to see our RedBalloon Labs on this list! Thanks for that. I've just posted the datagrid code for download with more to come this week. http://labs.redbd.net/blog/index.cfm/2006/8/8/Open-Source-Datagrid Cheers, Mark