ColdFusion Open-Source Update - July 30 : Remote Synthesis

ColdFusion Open-Source Update - July 30

Posted on Jul 30, 2007

One new project and five updates this week. I am sure by now you all have heard today's big news. I am referring, of course, to the unofficial release Vista performance and reliability pack (if you do actually care about that, go here). More importantly, I am now featured on a video on the Adobe site. The fat dude who immediately follows Ben Forta on the new customers video - that's me: Brian Rinaldi...Web Developer!

New Releases and Updates

New Project: PDF Utils
Reading Test from PDF in ColdFusion 8
Ray Camden has wrapped ColdFusion and DDX functionality into this component which allows you to grab text from a PDF or pull a single page.

Getting a page from a PDF Document in ColdFusion 8
More features on Ray Camden's one billionth open source project.

ICEGen
ICEGEN hit RC1!
Tony Petruzzi has updated his code generator to release candidate status.

Schema Tool
Schema Tool Update
Joshua Frankamp has contibuted MSSQL support to Barney Boisvert's database schema manager.

ColdFire
ColdFire Updated - Supports Variable
Ray Camden and Nathan Mische have released an update to the ColdFire debugger that addes support for basic variables that allows you to specify which variables you want to see.

CFFormProtect
CFFormProtect 1.4 released
Jake Munson has released the an update to his form spam blocking project with a new spam test submitted by Mary Jo Sminkey.

CFC Stub Generator
CFC Stub Generator Now Defines ColdSpring Bean Dependencies
Brian Kotek updated his UML based ColdFusion code generator to properly manage dependencies in the generated ColdSpring XML.

Announcements

RBMan
RbMan2 Usage Stats
Jason Sheedy tries to make sure users are aware of the newer version of his resource bundle manager.

BlogCFC
Important Update for BlogCFC Users
Ray Camden posts a stylesheet fix for code blocks using BlogCFC.

ColdBox
Rob Gonda Joins Team ColdBox!
So...umm...in summary...Rob Gonda is joining team ColdBox.

I'm Joining Team ColdBox
Rob Gonda confirms that he is indeed joining Team ColdBox.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

ICEGen
ICEGEN: Part 1 - Installation
Tony Petruzzi shows how to install his code generator.

ICEGen: Part2 - Generation
Tony gives a tutorial on how to generate code with his code generator.

BlogCFC
I18N: BlogCFC & RSS & Unicode
Oğuz Demirkapı shows how to fix an RSS issue dealing with Unicode.

On another note, hell hath indeed frozen over as this week there is no Dan Vega BlogCFC tutorial.

Fusebox
Workshop: Sean Corfield on Fusebox
Sean Corfield will be giving a workshop for CFFrameworks.com and will preview FuseBox 5.5.

Fusebox and Application.cfc
Sean Corfield discusses how to resolve a common problem with session variables when using Application.cfc and Fusebox 5.1.

Model-Glue
Model Glue Views Demystified
Doug Boude gives a tutorial on how to handle views in Model-Glue.

Installing Transfer in Model-Glue:Unity
Dan Wilson shows how to modify the configuration so that your ORM adapter uses Transfer as the ORM solution.

Model-Glue Tip: ViewState's getAll()
A quick tip from Ray Camden about testing and debugging ViewState values in Model-Glue.

DataMgr
Introduction to Relation Fields
Steve Bryant offers a tutorial on database relation fields in his data access layer component set.

ColdBox
Porting Fusebox 5 Apps to Coldbox : Controllers
Russ Johnson shows how to convert your Fusebox 5 application controllers into ColdBox.

Content Management - Various
CMS Roundup: Introduction
Josh Curtiss is planning a series of posts on open-source solutions including a number of ColdFusion open-source solutions.

Mach II
FCKEditor and Mach-ii
Tony Petruzzi offers a simple tip when you run into issues using a WYWIWYG editor like FCKEditor with Mach ii.