ColdFusion Open-Source Update - June 23, 2008

Five new releases and four updates this week. It was great to see everyone at CFUnited, and there were a number of presentations covering open-source projects. I would actually love to see more, in particular covering some of the lesser known projects. Perhaps this should be a goal for next year at both CFUnited and cf.Objective(). I'd be happy to present some of them myself.

New Releases and Updates

New Project: ClassViewer (CFC)
Initial Release
Shayne Sweeney released this component to try to get better access to the underlying classes beneath ColdFusion tags.

New Project: Complete CRUD Code Generator
Initial Release
This code generator by Jason Presley generates the standard CRUD as well as scaffolds form and list pages. Works only with MySQL now.

New Project: Edmund
Initial Release
This is an event-driven model framework written by Sean Corfield and which he discussed during his CFUnited presentation.

New Project: Java RegEx Utilities
Initial Release
Peter Boughton released this component to allow access to deeper regular expression functionaltiy.

New Project: Twitter Client
Initial Release
Elliott Sprehn wrote this wrapper for the Twitter REST API - I assume it takes into account the frequent outages.

AppBooster
AppBooster Beta 4
AppBooster is Kurt Wiersma's skeleton application using Mach-II, ColdSpring and now Transfer.

ColdExt
ColdExt Beta 2 (Preview)
Justin Carter discusses the many changes in the Ext custom tags wrapper.

ColdFire
ColdFire Status Update: FF3 and FB1.2
Nathan Mische updates the status of development of the ColdFire update to work with Firebug 1.2 (1.1 doesnt work with Firefox 3).

Seeker
Seeker updated to support Word docs and Excel files
Raymond Camden updates his Lucene search wrapper.

Announcements

Mach-II
Mach-II Google Group Now 500 Strong! | Mach-II - We're Community Driven
The Mach-II commmunity continues to grow.

Transfer
ColdFusion 9 + Hibernate == Transfer Killer?
Will Hibernate in Coldfusion 9 (announced at CFUnited) be the death of Transfer? Mark Mandel, Transfer's creator, says the answer is a definitive "No." He gives a detailed explanation why.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

ColdBox
CFUnited: ColdBox Framework 101
Phil Duba discusses Luis Majano's CFUnited presentation.

ColdSpring
CFUnited: Mark Drew — ColdSpring: Better Living Through Configuration
Adam Tuttle's notes on Mark Drew's CFUnited presentation.

Farcry
Farcry Custom Config
Jake Churchill shows how to create a custom config for a custom type.

FarCry
FarCry - Finding a page by ‘typename’ somewhere above the current page
Michael Sharman posts this tutorial.

Fusebox
Reload Fusebox in IE, Safari and Firefox
John Whish revisits the bookmarklet for reloading Fusebox apps.

HomePortals
Using HomePortals and ColdBox Together
Oscar Arevalo tries mixing the layout rendering engine of HomePortals with Coldbox.

Model-Glue
CFUnited: (LiveBlog) Joe Rinehart — What’s New in Model-Glue 3
Adam Tuttle's notes from Joe Rinehart's CFUnited presentation.

Building reusable form views with Model-Glue
Brian Ghidinelli posts this tutorial covering some easy "trip-ups" when learning Model-Glue.

Transfer
TQL and params lexicon update
Nick Tong updated his Fusebox lexicon for Transfer.

How I Use Transfer - Part I - Introduction
Bob Silverberg starts a tutorial series.

Using Transfer Metadata to Create a Memento
Bob Silverberg offers this Transfer tutorial in response to a mailing list question.

Quick Fix - Transfer and Reserverd Words
Tom DeManincor offers a fix for objects that have a name containing a reserved word in SQL.

VarScroper
Var Scoper Tool
Mark Kruger reviews the VarScoper tool and talks about one issue with cfhttp.