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ColdFusion Open-Source Update - July 2

Posted on Jul 02, 2007

Are you a framework author and you didn't launch a new site this week? Well, apparently you didn't get the memo! Two new projects and some very significant updates this week, including new releases for both Mach II and Model-Glue as well as new sites for both. In addition, Fusebox launched a new site. Looking at all three sites, I am left with the clear indication that MVC web frameworks for ColdFusion have gone "Web 2.0" - in fact, from here on out, you are not a Fuseboxer but a Fuseboxr! ;) Anyway, enough fluff...

New Releases and Updates

New Project: Dispatcher
Initial Release
Paul Marcotte has released an MVC front-controller similar to the controller in other frameworks, but with some significant differences in implimentation.

New Project: Authorize.net Simple CFC
Initial Release
This project by John C. Bland II assists in connecting a ColdFusion application to Authorize.net.

Model-Glue
Model-Glue: ColdFusion and Model-Glue: Flex released!
Joe Rhinehart has not only brought Model-Glue 2 to a final, non-beta release (v2.0.304 to be exact), but has also released a conceptual Model-Glue Flex framework, which sounds very exciting (though generally outside the scope of this update).

Mach II
Mach-II 1.5 Beta1 is out and check out our new website!
Peter Farrell announces the new site and new beta.

Mach-II 1.5 Modules
Matt Woodward discusses modules in relation to plugging MachBlog into the new Mach-II site as a module.

New Mach-II Web Site, Mach-II 1.5 Beta Available
Matt Woodward announces the new site and new beta.

Mach-II 1.5 Beta 1 is released and new website!
Dave Shuck goes into some detail about the new features in 1.5 and the new site, with its promise to improve communication with the broader ColdFusion community.

More Details On 1.5 Beta 1
An overview of the some of the new features included in 1.5 Beta 1 including XML includes, modules, subroutines and more.

Lightwire
Lightwire Updated
Peter Bell finally got around to posting some framework improvements made by Paul Marcotte.

LightWire XML Configuration Update: Now Supporting Init-method and Mixin
Paul Marcotte discusses the changes he made to the Lightwire depenency injection framework including support for a tag.

CFFormProtect
CFFormProtect security fix
Jake Munson has updated the project to protect the contents of the ini file.

CFFormProtect 1.3 Released
Jake Munson released a new version that includes a bunch of code improvements and a new feature all written by Dave Shuck, who uses CFFormProtect for InstantSpot.

WSCandis
Version 0.4 of WSCandis Released!
Oscar Orevalo has updated his caching solution and added a logging mechanism, an administration tool and more.

Transfer
Performance Improvements for Transfer
Ever thought Transfer was slow? Well, Mark Mandel has fixed that anyway thanks to some advice from Robin Hilliard.

CFImageHistogram
CFImageHistogram ColdFusion 8 Version
Seth Duffey has updated his histogram component with new improvements that become available in CF8, including some significant performance increases.

Announcements

Illudium PU-36 Code Generator
New Illudium Code Generator Logo
I show off my new generator logo designed by Nick Sweeney of Big Fat Designs in all its splendor.

Have I told you how much I love Illudium PU-36 Code Generator?
Dave Shuck's reviews my code generator with good detail on the various features.

Illudium PU-36 Gets Updated, Adds CFML Templating
Apparently people are excited by my addition of CFML templating in addition to the standard XSL templating, as Kyle Hayes reports on this not yet "officially" announced feature.

Illudium and CFML templating
Peter Bell talks about the CFML templating too, which should be officially announced in the next day or two.

Transfer
Transfer Docs hosted on my site for your needs.
Luis Majano is hosting a copy of the Transfer documentation.

Fusebox
fusebox.org relaunched!
Sean Corfield announces the new Fusebox site with a dramatically different new look and all new content.

fusebox.org - gosh you look nice!
Nick Tong discusses some of the changes on the new Fusebox site.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

Mach II
Odd lingering perception - Mach-II is the 'hard' framework. Really?
Dave Shuck addresses what he feels is a common misperception that Mach-II is significantly more difficult than either Fusebox or Model-Glue.

BlogCFC
Inline comments in blogCFC
Dan Vega offers this tutorial for elinating the popup comment box in BlogCFC.

Publish BlogCFC Entries Using Google Docs
Dan Vega offers a tutorial about publishing directly to BlogCFC from Google Docs using XML-RPC.

Windows Live Writer Beta & BlogCFC Part I
Dan Vega, who at this point may be a paid BlogCFC evangelist ;), offers another tutorial on using Windows Live Writer to publish BlogCFC posts.

Windows Live Writer & BlogCFC Part II
Part II of the Windows Live Writer tutorial.

Work around for Windows Live Writer issue - BlogCFC
Scott Inkston helped Dan figure out how to get Windows Live Writer to work with BlogCFC.

Model-Glue / Mach II / Fusebox
CFUNITED 2007 - Frameworks BOF
Sean Corfield gives an overview of the Birds of a Feather session on frameworks at CFUnited. It definitely sounds like there was a lot of valuable discussion.

Comments

Let me get this straight. You're mentioning on your list that Kyle mentioned on his blog that your software has a new feature - that you haven't announced yet?! Gotta love the Internet . . .

Posted By Peter Bell / Posted on 07/03/2007 at 2:24 PM