ColdFusion Open-Source Update - December 10, 2007

Posted on Dec 10, 2007

One new project and five updates this week. I am beginning my campaign for this blog as a "best blog" nominee for Todd Sharp's CFEmmy's after getting shafted last year. Look for t-shirts and stickers to come soon! ;)

New Releases and Updates

New Project: ShortURL
Turn Long URLs in to Short Ones with ShortURL
Sam Farmer has started a new project that creates a short URL handler for links on your site.

ColdSpring

Sean Corfield announces the latest release candidate which includes a lot of new features that have not yet made it into the release candidate.

Lighthouse Pro
Lighthouse Pro Update
Ray Camden says this is generally a minor update but includes a feature to remember the filter that was applied.

BugLogHQ
BugLogHQ 1.3 - Beta Available
Oscar Arevalo has released a new beta of his bug tracker which focuses on back-end improvements.

CFC Zipper
CFC Zipper 1.5
Christopher Wigginton updates his zip component designed for CFMX7 with some new methods.

VarScoper
Minor update to varscoper
This update from Mike Schierberl adds some new tag support and some other features.

Announcements

ColdBox
Submit your ColdBox sites, applications, and companies
Luis Majano is looking to update his wiki with companies and sites using ColdBox.

Last BlueDragon 7 (cfthread) bug with ColdBox resolved.
Luis Majano fixed the last remaining known bug in RC2 which means a release may be coming soon.

Joining Team ColdBox
Russ Johnson joins Luis Majano, Rob Gonda and Brian LeGros.

Skweegee
Skweegee Update - Getting Close Now!
Russ Johnson is nearly done with his port of Skweegee to ColdBox.

Model-Glue
Model-Glue 3 ("Gesture"): Under development now!
Joe Rinehart has started work on version 3 of his MVC framework.

MG3 Goodies: "Request Phase" architecture
This coming update adds more plug-in points within the frameworks request process.

Firemoss and Model-Glue on New Server
Joe Rinehart moved his sites to a new server which was cause for some outages.

Coming Soon: ModelGlueCookBook.com (And Other Cool Things)
Todd Sharp is working on a cookbook site for Model-Glue.

CFBloggy
First confirmed site using CFBloggy
John Ramon announces a public site running on his blog software.

Fusebox
Fusebox 5.5 available for download!
The new version of the core files, extensions and skeleton applications are ready to download.

Fusebox Scaffolding beta released
Fusebox scaffolding was written by Kevin Roche and automatically generates Add/Edit/Delete pages based upon database metadata.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

Sebtags Custom Tag Set
Validation in cf_sebForm
Steve Bryant offers this tutorial.

Model-Glue
Passing Application scoped variables to ColdSpring within Model Glue
Andy Jarrett offers this tutorial on how to pass the defaultProperties.

CFJSON
ColdFusion 7, Spry 1.6, and JSON - A Beginner's Tutorial
Bruce Phillips offers this detailed tutorial.

ColdBox
ColdBox : A Tour at the Orlando CFUG Presentation, Watch it!
Luis Majano posts the Connect recording URL.

COOP
Workshop: Writing Apps with COOP by John Farrar
John Farrar will be presenting thanks to the CFFrameworks folks.

Comments

There are currently no comments for this entry...be the first!

Write your comment



(it will not be displayed)





About

My name is Brian Rinaldi and I am the Web Community Manager for Flash Platform at Adobe. I am a regular blogger, speaker and author. I also founded RIA Unleashed conference in Boston. The views expressed on this site are my own & not those of my employer.