ColdFusion Open-Source Update - June 11
Posted on Jun 11, 2007
Another extremely busy week with 9 new releases and 4 updates. On an unrelated note, I am in sunny San Jose at the Adobe Community Summit learning about the recently released AIR (aka. codename Apollo). Sun and AIR...hmm...there must be a smart @$$ comment in there somewhere...anyway, enjoy!
New Releases and Updates
New Project: Paragator
Aggregator CFC updated, hosted, and named
Ray Camden has created a ColdFusion 8 aggregator component with some help from Todd Sharp takes multiple RSS feeds and turns them into a single query.
New Project: VarScopeCheckerFB
Initial Release
This isn't exactly a new project, but an update to Seth Petry-Johnson's VarScopeChecker (which doesn't seem to be available any longer) with a built-in file browser.
New Project: Fusebox 5 Explorer
Fusebox 5 Explorer
Nick Tong has released this project to assist in introspecting your Fusebox application.
New Project: CFMovieLibrary
Initial Release
A movie library created by Boyan Kostadinov with detailed movie metadata and auto-linking to IMDB.
New Project: Project Tracker
1.0 Beta Released
Joe Danziger has released what he calls a clone of BaseCamp for tracking projects with team members, to-do lists, milestones, bugs and more. The demo looks pretty impressive.
New Project: CFShopKart
Released as Open Source
This project by Jon Wallen is not necessarily new, but appears to be somewhat recently open-sourced in order to keep the project going (as the author's time is dedicated to a different project). However, there are currently no other alternatives that I know of for an open-source shopping cart in ColdFusion.
New Project: DataMgr Utility Set
Initial Release
Steve Bryant has been releasing a variety of utilities using DataMgr behind-the-scenes:
Capitalizer.cfc 1.0
This component will fix case related issues in a database column.
Scheduler.cfc 1.0 Beta
This utility allows you to schedule a task from a component
PhoneFormatter.cfc 1.0
This component handles formatting phone number fields in the database upon entry or on an existing column.
New Project: RocketUnit
Initial Release
This project by Robin Hilliard is another unit testing framework with the difference being it is a single CFC with only one assert method which the author believes will make it more approachable and easier to use.
New Project: BoomSocket
BoomSocket Alpha Open to Developers
Digital Positions has released an alpha version of their content management system which currently supports MSSQL. The download requires entry of some minimal personal information since this is an early alpha release.
ByteSpring CMS
Bytespring CMS Upgrade
Jason Sheedy has updated his content management system with a long list of new features that he details on this post.
Skweegee
Skweegee Version 0.1.2 Released To RIAForge
Russ Johnson updates some features and bug fixes on his project management and issue tracking application.
ColdCourse
ColdCourse Updated for Nicer URLs Regardless of Hosting
Adam Fortuna has removed the requirement for .htaccess or ISAPI filter from his URL rewriting application.
cfTimeline
cfTimeline Updated
Todd Sharp has updated his Ajax timeline project with a number of new features and bug fixes.
Announcements
SnipEx
Project X unveiled: Say a big hello to SnipEx
Mark Drew released his top secret project at Scotch on the Rocks. It is a snippet server that a group of people can subscribe/publish to using CFEclipse. The code should be released shortly.
FarCry
Another FarCry 4 Website Launched
Jeff Coughlin discusses his recent release of a new site using FarCry 4.
CFBloggy
CFBloggy - growing pains
John Ramon discusses his development of his blog software.
BlogCFC
BlogCFC JS Twitter Pod (Updated)
Chris Philips updates his Twitter pod for BlogCFC.
Fusebox
Fusebox 5.5 - it's official!
After polling the mailing list, Sean Corfield announces that the next version of Fusebox will be called 5.5 and is a build is available for mailing list members.
Powered by Fusebox 5.5.0.463
Corfield.org runs on the latest build of Fusebox.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
ColdBox
Automatically include your views with ColdBox
Adam Fortuna gives a tutorial on handling views in your ColdBox application.
Model-Glue
Global Configuration Settings in Model-Glue:Unity
Doug Boude shows how to use a configuration bean and ColdSpring to handle your typical application configuration settings.
Illudium PU-36 Code Generator
Fusebox 5 Templates for Illudium PU-36 Code Generator
Russ Johnson releases a set of templates for my code generator that generate Fusebox specifc code as well as form and list page scaffolds.
UPDATE: Fusebox 5 Templates for Illudium-PU36
Russ releases some updates to the templates.
Screencast: Generating Fusebox5 CRUD Files With Illudium-PU36 (FIX URL)
Russ releases a screencast showing how to use the generator and his templates to create a functioning Fusebox application within minutes.
BlogCFC
Coldfusion, BlogCFC and YUI
Adrian Moreno shows how to use YUI grids within the BlogCFC layout file.
ColdSpring
Objects and Composition in CFCs - Part 2: ColdSpring
I cover how to handle the dependencies within the previous sample application using ColdSpring.
Comments
Posted By Nick Tong / Posted on 06/11/2007 at 7:42 PM
Maybe it could made as a Mach II 1.5 module. :)
Posted By Aaron Lynch / Posted on 06/12/2007 at 7:23 PM