ColdFusion Open-Source Update - March 17, 2008

Three new projects and six updates this week. Enjoy the St. Patrick's day edition of the weekly update (thus the slight green theme in case it isn't obvious...which it isn't). It also happens to be Evacuation Day in Boston, but honestly I had no idea what that was. Thanks to Wikipedia for educating me. Basically it means if I worked for the city I would actually have today off to, purely coincidentally, go drink green beer.

New Releases and Updates

New Project: 1ssBlog
Announcing 1ssBlog
Ed Tabara has released his blog software that is designed to be easy to skin and add custom pods.

New Project: Kayak ColdFusion API
Announcing The Kayak ColdFusion API
Andrew Powell has released a beta that simplifies connecting to Kayak to get hotel and flight prices.

New Project: Site-Peaks
Initial Release
Reinhard Jung has released this user tracking project that uses MaxMind.

BeanInjector/ColdMock
BeanInjector Update (now at RIAForge!) and ColdMock update
Brian Kotek has posted these projects at RIAForge and has posted some bug fixes and updates to each.

ColdExt
ColdExt Beta 1 with CFEclipse tag insight!
Justin Carter adds support for seven new tags plus many other updates and a CFEclipse library XML file for tag support.

ColdFire
ColdFire 1.1, Now With Firefox 3 Support
Nathan Mische has built on the groundwork of the prior version and officially supports the Firefox 3 beta (as well as some minor updates).

ColdFire 1.004
Nathan Mische posts about an update that lays the groundwork for a version that will work with Firefox 3.

ColdFire Update
Ray is still involved but stepping away and letting Nathan Mische take the lead.

Lighthouse Pro
Lighthouse Pro 2.4.3
Ray Camden has updated his bug tracking software including a new logo and support for hashed passwords.

MXUnit
A few small plugin updates
Marc Esher discusses some bug fixes in the Eclipse plugin.

POIUtilityCFC
Initial Thoughts On POI Utility ColdFusion Custom Tag Output : Kinky Solution...
Ben Nadel discusses his plans and ideas regarding his component to read/write Excel files.

Announcements

1ssBlog
Knowing 1ssBlog better: Caching Mechanisms
Ed Tabara shows how you can customize the caching mechanism within his blog software.

ColdBox
New ColdBox Plugin: rssGenerator, get it from the code depot.
Luis Majano has released a new plugin that will take a ColdFusion structure and convert it to an RSS 2.0 feed.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

ColdSpring
ColdSpring: Is Inversion of Control synonymous to Dependency Injection?
Jax discusses the theory behind ColdSpring and IoC in general.

ColdSpring Remote Proxies as WebServices… Whew!
Steve Brownlee discusses some caveats to working with the generated remote proxies as webservices.

Farcry
Savvy vs Farcry
Chris (no last name provided) asks readers to help him compare Farcry with Savvy CMS.

Illudium PU-36 Code Generator
Creating A CFC Generator Object With Illudium
Chris Phillips continues his series on how to use Illudium outside its Flex UI.

Brian, Once again you have a great weekly review! I miss probably 20% of this stuff every week.

One suggestion: Maybe under Announcements the new CFEclipse site? Jim Priest put it all together as a better eclipse resource for people.
http://www.cfeclipse.org/

I like the green -- nice contrast.