ColdFusion Open-Source Update - July 16
Posted on Jul 16, 2007
A busy week with four new projects and five updates. I hereby dub this the week of the tutorial with ten tutorial(ish) posts this week. In case you are wondering, I do in fact have the authority to dub weeks - its a provision my lobbyist had written into the reauthorization of the Patriot Act. Ok...'nuff foolin'...
New Releases and Updates
New Project: Calendar CFC
A cfcalendar replacement to let you select months or weeks
Tom Mollerus has released a new project to function as a cfcalendar replacement with some advantages. First, this is an HTML/JavaScript-based calendar rather than Flash. Second, it allows you to select date ranges such as an entire week or an entire month.
New Project: Pronto
Initial Release
Pronto is a task manager written by Lu Sancea.
New Project: Formulate
Initial Release
Formulate, also by Lu Sancea, is a tool to help build CSS compliant forms with Spry.
New Project: BitmapTxt
Initial Release
This project by Ben (last name not provided) is really nifty. It uses CF8's new image manipulation features to generate an actual bitmap image off of ASCII text.
Schema Tool
Schema Tool Update
Barney Boisvert has released a new version of his database schema manager application with SQL based migration scripts.
FarCry
FarCry Core 4.0.4 Released
Jeff Coughlin goes over the highlights of the latest version of the FarCry core (as in, not the CMS plugin).
SnipEx
CFEclipse's SnipEx server components released
Mark Drew has released the SnipEx components allowing you to create shared snippet servers.
Snipex Code Released - CFLib Available in Eclipse
Ray Camden has made (most of) the cflib library available as a SnipEx archive.
Soundings
Soundings 2 Update / Request for Logo
Ray has added some new features to his survey application and is looking for someone to create a logo.
ImageCFC
ImageCFC 2.18 released
Rick Root has updated his image manipulation component.
Announcements
Mach ii
Core Changes Since 1.5 Beta 1 Release
Peter Farrell discusses some recent bug fixes in the SVN copy of Mach ii 1.5 beta.
Join Our Google Group and Ways to Participate
Peter goes over the various ways to keep up with the discussions on the Mach ii Google Group.
Example Mach-II 1.5/ColdSpring application
Dave Shuck offers a sample Mach ii 1.5/Coldspring application which you can download.
Our Development Roadmap
Peter talks about the plans for future incremental updates to the Mach ii framework.
User Group Management Application (CHUG)
Two New CFUG Sites on CHUG App
Matt Woodward announces that my new Boston CFUG site and Sean Corfield's Bay Area CFUG site both launched using his CFUG management application.
Skweegee
Skweegee Updates This Weekend
Russ Johnson discusses some planned bug fixes in his project management/Trac application.
AjaxCFC
jQuery and AjaxCFC News
Rob Gonda mentions that AjaxCFC will get an upgrade since the new release of jQuery is 800% faster.
Web Application Firewall for ColdFusion
Announcing Web Application Firewall for ColdFusion
Pete Freitag discusses a firewall product written entirely in CFML. He is also putting out the call for potential beta testers.
ColdBox
ColdBox Download Updated!
Somehow the wrong files were uploaded previously, but Luis Majano notes that this has been corrected.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
ColdSpring
Some Tips on Using ColdSpring Remoting
I discuss some issues I ran into while trying ColdSpring's auto-remoting feature for the first time.
ColdSpring Mad Science: Injecting Metadata for use in AOP and Proxy Generation
Brian Kotek shows how to inject extra metadata when creating ColdSpring remote proxies.
Model-Glue
Dynamically adding <views/>l to a Model-Glue Event
Joe Rhinehart shows how to determine the view to include at runtime within Model-Glue.
SnipEx
Clearing your SnipEx Cache - and CFLib SnipEx Update
Raymond Camden goes over the currently manual process for clearing the SnipEx cache.
MachBlog
5 Steps to Moving from BlogCFC to MachBlog
I discuss the steps and offer some code to help people who want to transition from BlogCFC to MachBlog like myself.
Fusebox
TQL Transfer lexicon for fusebox
Nick Tong shows how to create a custom TQL lexicon in Fusebox 5.
DataMgr
Schema Synchronization with DataMgr
Steve Bryant discusses how to use DataMgr to synchronize various databases, even across different rdbms.
BlogCFC
BlogCFC hides old entries, how to change that.
Dan Vega (aka. the Ben Forta of BlogCFC) has released another tip for changing how quickly BlogCFC hides old entries.
Illudium PU-36 Code Generator
Template Path Function Gotchas!
Russ Johnson discusses some interesting bugs in template paths that we found on CF7 on Macs running a multiserver install.
Various
Code and Process and Frameworks Oh My!
Steve "Cutter" Blades takes the time to thank a number of people for various projects he uses in his work including my code generator and Matt Woodward, Peter Farrell and Chris Scott's LitePost.
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