ColdFusion Open-Source Update - June 25

Posted on Jun 25, 2007

Five new releases and a handful of updates this week. For those of you lucky enough to be in D.C. for CFUnited...enjoy!

New Releases and Updates

New Project: cfPayflowPro
cfPayflowPro Alpha Release
Dan Vega releases an implementation of PayPal integration without the need for CFX tags using Mark Mandel's JavaLoader.

New Project: User Group Management Application
User Group Management Application
Matt Woodward decided to release his user group application in an unfinished state in response to a number of requests, even though it does currently run the Capitol Hill User Group site.

New Project: CFMX Facebook Application Starter
Initial Release
Cory Johnson releases a starter kit for creating Facebook applications. Is it time I finally look into Facebook, because I have no idea what a Facebook application is?

New Project: Amazon SQS CFC
Initial Release
This is a set of components by Jeffrey Pratt that abstract out the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) API for handling queues of data.

New Project: Iterating Business Object
IBO 2.0 - Return of the Iterating Business Object. Now on RIAForge!
Peter Bell releases his iterating business object as an open source project (previously he covered the code on a number of blog posts).

CFC Stub Generator
CFC Generator 1.6 With A Few UML Generation Enhancements
Brian Kotek updates his UML-based code generator with some minor bug fixes and several new features.

ColdBox
ColdBox 2.0.2 now out!! Come and get it!! Tons of new stuff.
Luis Majano's MVC framework now supports BlueDragon 7 and Railo in addition to a long list of new features.

Skeweegee
Skeweegee Updates Committed To Subversion
Russ Johnson updates his Trac-ish project including support for Uni-Form, which looks interesting.

Skweegee License Change : Introducing the Creative Commons

DtaMgr Utility Set
NoticeMgr 1.0 Beta
Steve Bryant adds to a long and growing list of utilities built with DataMgr. This project handles notifications based upon an event within your application.

ColdFire
ColdFire Updates
Nathan Mische contributed a number of improvements to the ColdFire debugger which have just been released.

SpoolMail
Happy Release Day
Ray Camden has updated his mail log viewer with some UI enhancements donated by Andrew Penhorwood as well as the ability to view attachments.

CFUPS
Happy Release Day
A minor update.

Announcements

scriptaGulous
Duhhhh... Was I a moron about scriptaGulous?
Sam Larbi laments his choice of design for his cfscript project.

ColdBox
ColdBox: Unit Test your framework application guide!!
Another documentation guide for unit testing your ColdBox application using the built-in unit testing support.

ColdBox Dashboard supports railo as an archive.
The ColdBox Dashboard, which is not open-source, now supports Railo and is distributed as a Railo archive.

CFCUnit
CFCUnit Documentation hosted in my site for your needs.
Luis Majano is now hosting a copy of the CFCUnit documentation.

Boomsocket
A Peek at the boomsocket Skin
Digital Positions show a slideshow of the UI for the BoomSocket CMS admin interface.

SchemaTool
Open Source Winner of Wii!
Barney Boisvert won the Wii and a ticket to CFUnited. Congratulations to him and the other winners.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

Transfer
Objects and Composition Part 3 - Using Transfer
I give an in-depth tutorial on how to use Transfer in conjunction with the code generator to make building sites fast and easy.

Brian Rinaldi on Object Composition and Transfer
Mark Mandel reviews my tutorial.

Illudium PU-36 Code Generator
Reschedule: Workshop Brian Rinaldi on Framework Code Generation
Due to inclement weather in the UK which caused horrible transportation delays, my presentation was postponed until July 5th.

Comments

hua thanks for another great update. does scriptaGulous have a link? it currently links back to this post.

Posted By hua / Posted on 06/26/2007 at 1:00 AM


Brian Rinaldi Sorry for that, fixed.

Posted By Brian Rinaldi / Posted on 06/26/2007 at 1:11 AM


nick tong FYI: Peter Bell covers his IBO in his LightWire workshop on http://cfFrameworks.com here: http://www.cfframeworks.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/5/16/cfFrameworks-workshop-Lightwire-recording

Posted By nick tong / Posted on 06/26/2007 at 6:40 AM


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