ColdFusion Open-Source Update - February 11, 2008

New Releases and Updates

New Project: CFFormMail
Simple Form Processing and E-mailing with CFFormMail
Mark Mazelin has added a project to simply drop-in and have a form emailed.

New Project: ClickHeat for ColdFusion
Introducing ClickHeat for ColdFusion, a clicks heatmapping application
Tom Mollerus has created a project that will overlay a map that displays visually the popularity of various links on a page.

New Project: ColdExt
ColdExt
ColdExt is another Ext custom tag library written by Justin Carter.

New Project: CSSRule
CSSRule.cfc - Parsing CSS Rules In ColdFusion
Ben Nadel has created a component that can parse all the rules within a particular CSS file.

CSSRule.cfc Added To Projects
Ben Nadel has added his CSS file parsing component to his list of projects.

New Project: GEOmind
Initial Release
Reinhard Jung has created a way to read GEO-Data from MaxMind.

New Project: ImageUtils
GetTextDimensions() For Finding ColdFusion Image Text Dimensions
Ben Nadel discusses a function he has added to the imageUtils library.

Me And Ray Camden On ColdFusion 8 Image Goodness
Ben Nadel and Ray Camden launch a project together that expands on ColdFusion 8's included image support functionality.

Basecamp CFC
Basecamp API Update
Terrence Ryan talks about the attention his project has received and adds some fixes to the code.

CFCExplorer, CFImageCropper
A Few Project Updates
Todd Sharp has added the ability to generate proxy CFCs to his component explorer and has fixed a bug in his image cropping tag.

Chinook ADS
CHINOOK Advanced Deployment System
Peter Boughton has created a project to help manage deployments to different servers with minimal downtime.

ColdFire
ColdFire Security Update
Nathan Mische has fixed a security exploit in the code.

SquidHead
Automating Documentation
Terrence Ryan shows how he creates documentation off of his SquidHead configuration files.

Announcements

Basecamp CFC
Export a Basecamp project as a PDF file
37Signals caught wind of Terrence Ryan's Basecamp API component.

ColdFire
ColdFire SVN
Nathan Mische updates the new structure within the project SVN on RIAForge.

ImageUtils
EasyCaptcha() For Multi-Image CAPTCHA Creation
Ben Nadel discusses a potential addition to his new project.

JSON.cfc
JSON.CFC, MAYBE CF8 DIDN'T MAKE YOU OBSOLETE AFTER ALL!
Doug Boude shows some things his JSON.cfc can do that can't be done in CF8's support.

MXUnit
MXUnit Eclipse Snippets
Marc Esher writes that some snippets have been added to Todd Sharp's cfsnippets site.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

BlogCFC
Hacking BlogCFC: Part 2 - Replacing the INI file (write) with XML
Adam Tuttle writes about how to update the XML file he used to replace the default ini file in part 1.

Hacking BlogCFC: Part 1 - Replacing the INI file (read) with XML
Adam Tuttle shows how to replace the default ini file with XML.

FarCry
Delete Core Webtop Links
Jake Churchill shows how to reorder an entire section on the webtop.

Farcry Typeadmin pagination trick
Jake Churchill shows how to display more than 15 items on a page.

Mach-II
The Grade Schooler's Guide to Mach-II Version 1.5 - Part 1 Naked Mach-II
Bruce Phillips continues his Mach-II tutorial series.

Model-Glue
Tuning A ColdSpring, Model Glue, Reactor Application On ColdFusion 8
Mike Brunt gives a real-world example of how to tune the JVM and ColdFusion server to improve performance.

Quick Tip on Including JavaScript files in Your Model-Glue Views
Boyan Kostadinov offers this tip on the new ColdFusion Zone.

Sebtags Custom Tags Set
Send Email with cf_sebForm
In response to the project by Mark Mazelin, Steve Bryant shows how you would use his sebform to do the same.

SquidHead
Automating Documentation Part 2
Terrence Ryan continues his series.

Transfer
Of Views and Models and Working With Transfer ORM
Paul Marcotte debates whether to use queries or arrays of composed objects.