ColdFusion Open-Source Update - March 12
Posted on Mar 12, 2007
An excess of exclamation pointed titles this week must mean with had a busy week ;) Ok, so one new project and 7 updates this week. Enjoy!!!!
New Releases and Updates
New Project: Yxplorer
Yxplorer: Crawl Around In Your ColdFusion Memory
Geoff Bowers and the Daemon team that is also behind FarCry have released this tool, both within the FarCry Framework and as a seperate application, to allow you to drill down and view your ColdFusion servers session, application and server scopes.
Illudium PU-36 Code Generator
Release Candidate 1 ...um...Released
I have released a new version of my Flex-based ColdFusion code generator which includes a list of enhancements and bug requests as well as MySQL 4.1 support (finally!). This version also fixed every known bug at the time.
LightWire
LightWire 0.5 Released!
Peter Bell's dependency injection framework now includes the use of a config file, sample project and (as noted in a seperate post) support for custom factories.
Trac_Fu
TRAC_FU Updates Galore!!
Russ Johnson has added new features and fixed about 17 known issues in his Trac for ColdFusion project. The updated code is only available via Subversion at the moment.
ColdBox
ColdBox 2.0.0 Beta Build 493: This one is for BlueDragon fans!!
The latest build of Luis Majano's MVC framework includes full support for BlueDragon 6.2.x as well as some other important updates.
ColdBox 2.0.0 Beta Build 477 is ready for download + more!
The prior build added some important new features and some changes to the naming conventions.
CFMBB
CFMBB 1.20 Release Candidate Available
Some of the changes to Rick Root's message board application are user groups, restricted forums based on user groups, content management, file management and chat as well as a long list of other improvements and bug fixes.
ImageCFC
ImageCFC 2.14 Released
The resize now allows a "copToExact" argument in Rick Root's image manipulation component. The code was donated by Peter Coppinger aka Topper.
CFConcurrency
Bug Fix
Sean Corfield has fixed a bug in his concurrency package for ColdFusion.
Announcements
ColdFire
Announcing ColdFire
With 67 comments and counting, this is certainly the most talked about announcement of the week, and it comes from, you guessed it, Ray Camden. He and Adam Podolnick have been working on a way to integrate debugging features directly into the Firebug plugin for Firefox.
ColdBox
ColdBox 2.0 New Feature - Pre/Post Event Handlers
Pre and post even handlers were added in built 477.
ColdBox Firefox-IE Search Plugin. Come and Get it!!
Add documentation search right in your browser bar.
Squidhead
Poor, Slightly Misunderstood, Squidhead
Matt and Peter's mention of Squidhead on the ColdFusion Weekly podcast made Terrence Ryan realize that he needed to do a better job of explaining all the features in his code generation application.
onTap
Isaac Dealey talks about the onTap framework
Nick and Kola continue their podcast series with an interview of Isaac Dealey about onTap.
CFCUnit
Lots of Great Ideas
Paul Kenney thanks people for sharing their ideas to integrate into his unit testing framework.
DataMgr
DataMgr Performance
Steve Bryant shares the results of his performance tests on his active schema/crud application.
Tutorials
ColdSpring
Coldspring Automagic Lesson
Doug Boude discusses a recent challenge he faced when using ColdSpring.
BlogCFC
Adding COinS for BlogCFC
Wayne Graham shows how to integrate the embedded bibliographic data into BlogCFC.
AjaxCFC
AjaxCFC and 0 Return Values
Nathan Mische discusses an issue he encountered using AjaxCFC.
ColdBox
Great ColdBox Tutorial: Contact-O-Matic by Michael Oneil
Luis Majano links to a good ColdBox tutorial.
Comments
Just wanted to update the Trac_Fu status. There is now a zip file available for download on the project site over at riaforge.
Thanks for helping to spread the word.
Posted By Russ Johnson / Posted on 03/12/2007 at 1:32 PM