ColdFusion Open-Source Update - January 7, 2008

Two new projects and one update this week. A quiet week as releases and announcements go, but very busy in the tutorial department. On a side note, I am no LSU fan but will be rooting for them tonight. I just don't like Ohio State and it would be nice to see them blown out two years in a row. Sorry, Ohio, it's not you really...it's just that you were a part of the eternal travesty that is the 2002 national championship game where my beloved Hurricanes were stripped of their championship on a *highly* questionable pass interference call. Argh! Just mentioning it still gets me upset. Not that I hold a grudge...not at all.

New Releases and Updates

New Project: JXLCFC
Modify Excel Spreadsheets with ColdFusion the easy way!
Jason Delmore (yes, the product manager for ColdFusion) has released a component that utilizes the JExcel API within ColdFusion to allow you to create Excel reports programmatically in ColdFusion.

New Project: cfWindow
Introducing CFWindow
Dan Vega has created a tag that wraps some Ext 2.0 functionality to make cfwindow available in ColdFusion 7.

NabaztagAPI
Nabaztag API for Actionscript 3 is released!
Shannon Hicks releases the 1.0 version of the NabaztagAPI and NabaztagExplorer.

Announcements

Model-Glue
2008 Talks (and the Model-Glue show!)
Joe Rinehart will be speaking on Model-Glue 3 (Gesture) at a number of trainings and conferences.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

ColdSpring
Learning Flex Part 5: Using ColdSpring AOP to Create Arrays of Value Objects
Brian Kotek uses ColdSpring's AOP functionality to take a query and convert it to an array of objects for Flex.

ColdSpring and Service Layers: Always Proxy?
Brian Kotek wonders whether always proxying ColdSpring service objects is a good idea to prevent someone from "accidentally" getting the original service object itself.

Bruce Phillips Continues his ongoing series:
The Grade Schooler's Guide To ColdSpring - Part 2 Flex To ColdSpring
The Grade Schooler's Guide To ColdSpring - Part 3 Providing Default Values To ColdSpring

Fusebox
Fusebox 101: myFusebox
Nick Tong shows a couple of values within the myFusebox component that can be useful.

Illudium PU-36 Code Generator
Easier than I thought, but not as easy as I thought: Illudium PU-36, Fusebox 5, and ColdSpring
Kay Smoljak tries to use my generator with Russ Johnson's templates to help her move from procedural Fusebox to OO but runs up against a deadline.

Model-Glue
Brian Ghidinelli begins a series of posts covering what he learns rewriting a legacy application in Model-Glue with Transfer and ColdSpring:
Model-Glue Gleanings, Day 1 of 35
Model-Glue Gleanings, Day 2

a model-glue gotcha
Charlie Griefer shares an issue he encountered.

Transfer
Working with Transfer ORM: An Event Model Example
Paul Marcotte gives a walk-through on using the event model in Transfer to encrypt and decrypt a password field.

BlogCFC
The Simplest BlogCFC Post Code
Ben Forta shares his code to allow you to post to BlogCFC via email.

Jerk...

It's funny how bitter Miami fans are about being #2 in 2002. No Buckeye candy for you then. It was a good call. Get over it. Be proud of how far they got. Whether my Bucks win tonight or not, I'm proud of them for getting there in the first place.

When will college football get a REAL playoff system? Until then, all those "national championships" don't mean squat to me.