ColdFusion Open-Source Update - January 21, 2008
Posted on Jan 21, 2008
Five new projects and one update this week. Once again I spend a rare vacation day writing this post...at least no one can fault my dedication :). On a side note, I am sure you all heard the big news in the NFL this week. What?? No, not that! Its the hiring of Tony Sparano (that's Sparano) as the head coach of the Dolphins. On the plus side, he is entering a job where its nearly impossible to do worse than your predecessors. On the minus side, it will be difficult to do much better given the nearly complete absence of talent on that team. Well, back to the topic at hand...
New Releases and Updates
New Project: cfExt
Introducing cfExt
Dan Vega has expanded upon his cfWindow project to wrap more functionality of Ext in an easy-to-use, custom tag API.
ColdFusion and ExtJS
Dan Vega asks for opinions on expanding his cfWindow project to include more Ext features.
New Project: DerbyCFC
DerbyCFC: New Project with createIfNotExists function for Derby Databases
This project by Sam Farmer is designed to make it easier to work with Derby embedded databases in Coldfusion.
New Project: Environment Config
Environment Config - A single application config file for your CF Apps
The goal of Roland Lopez project is to make it easy to deploy the same codebase to multiple environments.
New Project: OAuth
Initial Release
Harry Klein implements the OAuth protocol for ColdFusion.
New Project: Feedburner Management CFC
Feedburner Management CFC Update
Gary Gilbert has created a component to work with the Feedburner API.
DataMgr
DataMgr 2.2 Alpha (with Derby support!)
In addition to Derby support, 2.2 adds filters, the ability to insert custom SQL, caching and more.
Announcements
Transfer
Transfer Going POSS, Powered by Compound Theory
Mark Mandel has take a very large step in turning Transfer ORM into a professional open-source project with training, support and certifications available. To my knowledge Transfer will become only the second POSS project in the ColdFusion world beside FarCry (though BoomSocket appears headed in that direction as well). He also outlines the roadmap for a 1.0 release he plans for cf.Objective().
FarCry
FarCry: Shared Hosting Made Easy
FarCry 5 will include the (long requested) ability to easily deploy on shared hosting.
cfWatcher
cfWatcher without restrictions
Ed Tabara has removed the requirement to put an email address or any other personal information when downloading the project.
ColdBox
SSL Interceptor by Ernst van der Linden
Luis Majano highlights an add-on for ColdBox.
Want to Autowire your interceptors? Now you can!!
Luis Majano shows a new feature in the nightly build.
ColdBox 2.5.2 update coming : autowire delight!!
Luis Majano shows the new autowiring feature which is now available in the nightly build.
BoomSocket
Growing Library of boomsocket Training Videos
Eric Jones highlights some new tutorials available.
cfCommerce
cfCommerce activity and contributions
Though there has been no activity lately, Andy Jarrett insists that the cfCommerce project is still alive.
ColinSN
ColdFusion Open Source Social Networking Platform
Joshua Rountree laments the lack of a social networking platform built in Coldfusion and decides to build one himself as an open-source project.
Model-Glue
Model-Glue 3 "Beans" Injection
Joe Rinehart gives a sneak of the update to the autowiring feature.
cfExt
Ext Message Box in ColdFusion
Dan Vega shows how to implement the message box with his custom tag API.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
Model-Glue
Model-Glue Event Lifecycle in Intermediate Terms
Brian Ghidinelli continues his Model-Gue tutorials by expanding on a helpful post by Doug Boude.
Model-Glue 3 at CFManiacs!
Joe Rinehart will be at WebManiacs to present the upcoming release of Model-Glue.
ColdSpring
Creating A Metadata-Aware ColdSpring Advice
Brian Kotek shows how to create advice that is configured via XML to return value objects to Flex.
Yet More ColdSpring Joy: Example Files for AbstractMetadataAwareAdvice
Brian Kotek offers an example of the metadata-aware ColdSpring advice.
More ColdSpring Goodness: Updated TDOBeanInjectorObserver and Release of BeanInjector
Brian Kotek expands on his project from last week to work with any objects, not just Transfer decorators.
Mach-II
Mach-II Primer : 6.2 : Processing Data with Beans and DAOs using Event Filters
Adrian Moreno shows how to build form and "action" pages.
Comments
Posted By Boyan Kostadinov / Posted on 01/22/2008 at 3:08 AM
Posted By Brian Rinaldi / Posted on 01/22/2008 at 7:33 AM