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ColdFusion Open-Source Update - January 15

Posted on Jan 15, 2007

A lot of new versions, updates and news this week and one significant release. In addition, there are a large number of useful tutorials this week as well. Enjoy.

New Releases and Updates

New Project: MachBlog
1.0 Beta 1 Released
All ye doubters repent, because MachBlog is finally here. Scripts for BlogCFC and BlogFusion are on there way. For those who wonder why I list this as a new project...well, I only list projects with a public download and now MachBlog finally has one.

MachBlog on BlueDragon Server
MachBlog will work on 7 but 6.2.1 is not supported.

AjaxCFC
AjaxCFC for jQuery Alpha 2 Released
Rob Gonda released a new version of his ajax integration component for jQuery 1.1 at RIAForge in Subversion and it includes some significant changes and improvements.

DataMgr
DataMgr 2.0 Beta 2 and Demo Site
Steve Bryant has released the latest beta of his active schema project including one new feature. He has also created a demonstration site.

Announcements

Model-Glue
Model-Glue License Change
Joe Rinehart announces a significant change in the license to Model-Glue from Lesser GPL to Apache Software License 2.0.

Model-Glue: Unity and Transfer
Sean Corfield discusses the recent addition of Transfer support available in Model-Glue: Unity.

CFSSP
CFSSP on RIA Forge
Ryan Guill has put his manager for slideshowpro on RIAForge.

Reactor
Reactor Mailing List Update
Doug Hughes notes a change in the email address used for the Reactor mailing list.

AVBlog
What Happened to 1.5.1?
Andrea Veggiani discusses that the delay in the release of the new version is due to Railo testing.

Trac_Fu
Demo Site
Russ Johnson has created a demo site where you can proview the features of his ColdFusion Trac project.

Tutorials

cfRails
cfrails 0.2.0 in the RIAForge Repository
Sammy Larbi gives an overview of features and using cfRails 0.2 including some pointers.

Model-Glue
CF Debug Output, Model Glue Style
Jeff Houser discusses how to handle debug output rendering in Model-Glue for things like JavaScript and Ajax.

Extending Model-Glue via ColdSpring
Doug Hughes goes into great detail about how to you can quickly and easily modify the behavior of a Model-Glue Unity application simply by modifying the ColdSpring configuration file. Doug covers how you can change the way MG:U handles generic database commits.

Transfer
TransferFactoryProxy
Sean Corfield shows how to share a single instance of Transfer across multiple Model-Glue applications.

Transfer Documentation Updates
Sean also notes that the documentation for Transfer has been getting upgrades of its own.

CFUnit
Running CFUnit in CFEclipse quick guide
Andy Jarrett offers a detailed tutorial on utilizing CFUnit integration in CFEclipse beta.

CFUnit in CFEclipse
Mike Rankin discusses the recent integration with CFEclipse.

Illudium PU-36 Code Generator
Build a Code Generator in 5 Easy Steps
I go over in detail the ColdFusion, XML, XSL and database metadata code used to build my generator and how you could use these techniques to build your own.

Old Skool Code Generation
Peter Bell takes issue with my use of XSLT and calls my generator "old skool," nonetheless, he offers nice compliments to the article :)

Comments

Hey Brian,

It wasn't meant to diss Illudium at all - I think it is cool. I do a couple of things differently, but I think that it is a great project. And unlike mine, it is finished and available :->

Posted By Peter Bell / Posted on 01/16/2007 at 5:34 AM