ColdFusion Open-Source Update - March 19
Posted on Mar 19, 2007
Only two new projects released this week. However, if you didn't hear about ColdFire this week, then you might be interested to know that Apollo was released today or whatever other ubiquitous news has been out recently.
New Releases and Updates
New Project: ColdFire
Is it cold in here or is it just me? ColdFire RC1 Released
Ray Camden and Adam Podolnick created a ColdFusion deugging extension for FireBug, a Firefox plugin which was *the* topic of discussion this week (as noted below).
ColdFire is Hot
Ray discusses some updates to ColdFire and the huge response it has received so far.
Installing ColdFire under the JRun version of ColdFusion
Tracy Logan discusses how to install ColdFire on a JRun install of ColdFusion.
ColdFire and Scope
Christopher Wigginton discusses how he edited ColdFire to show scope values in the debugging information.
ColdFire 0.0.2
An updated version of ColdFire was released that attempts to start to fix the header size issue some people have encountered.
New Project: NewBee
Initial Release
Trond Ulseth has been discussing his framework for some time, but now he has made the code available via Subversion on RIAForge. NewBee is another MVC framework for ColdFusion that is designed with beginning developers in mind.
LightHouse Pro
Lighthouse Pro 2.3 Released
Ray Camden's updated bug tracking software can now check a particular email account for bug reports.
Announcements
ColdBox
Luis Majano on the ColdBox Framework
Nick and Kola interview Luis Majano abotu ColdBox as part of their ongoing podcast series.
ColdBox 2.0.0 Beta Build 524 : With Dashboard!!
Luis Majano's MVC framework for CF now includes an update dashboard, IoC object caching, caching debugging panel and other updates.
ColdBox Dashboard 2.0.0 Beta Screenshots
The dashboard includes a number of tools to assist in building and maintaining ColdBox applications. You can also take it for a spin.
Transfer
Mark Mandel on Transfer, ORMs, and cf.Objective() 2007
Mark Mandel is interviewed by Judith Dinowitz about his ORM framework and upcoming cf.Objective() presentations.
Tutorials
Fusebox
Nick Tong offers a couple of Fusebox related tutorials:
Multiple Namespaces in Fusebox for Lexicons
Setting up Coldspring within fusebox via the CS lexicons
Closures for ColdFusion
Sean Corfield offers some examples of how to use closures:
Closures Example
Another Closures Example
Closures In ColdFusion
Dan Wilson also offers an example of using closures in ColdFusion.
BlogCFC
BlogCFC on Restricted Shared Hosting
Scott Pinkston discusses how to use BlogCFC in hosting environments that restrict the use of CreateObject.
MailerCFC
Mailer.cfc Notices
Steve Bryant shows how to add notices to his Mailer component that can be saved and then personalized and sent later.
RssCFC
Add dynamic content to your site with RSS and ColdFusion
I wrote a beginner-level article for the Adobe Edge that uses Ray Camden's RSS component (and I did manage to contribute some changes in the process).
Comments
Posted By nick tong / Posted on 03/20/2007 at 4:13 PM