ColdFusion Open-Source Update - March 26
Posted on Mar 26, 2007
Another week that in terms of quanitity was light on the releases (one new utility project and three updates), though the Transfer changes are significant. However, the steady stream of open-source related tutorials continues.
New Releases and Updates
New Project: toJSON
Initial Release
This project by Doug Laakso converts ColdFusion datatypes to JSON and is based upon Ray Camden's toXML component.
Transfer
Transfer 0.6.3 RC1 is Released
Mark Mandel finished his next release just in time for WebDU, and it includes some significant features: the Transfer Query Language (TQL), which allows you to write cross platform queries in a simplified format; and the afterNew() event which simplifies injecting dependencies into Transfer objects.
ColdFire
Critical ColdFire Update
The header size issues have been fixed in the latest release of the debugging plugin from Ray Camden and Adam Podolnick.
CFRails
cfrails 0.2.4 - bug fixes
Sammy Larbi has committed some bug fixes to the repository on his rails-like framework application.
DataMgr
Almost Done!
Steve Bryant added some bug fixes in the RC3 release which could become the 2.0 stable release unless new bugs are found.
Announcements
ColdFire
ColdFire's SizeSplit function (and the dumb mistake I made)
Ray discusses a change he made to the ColdFire codebase and the relatively easy to overlook mistake it contained as a learning tool.
DataMgr
DataMgr Rethinks the Data Access Layer
Steve Bryant responds to a post by Peter Bell regarding some basic data access layer requirements, and shows how DataMgr stacks up.
Tutorials
Model-Glue
Using Ajax with Model-Glue - it's really quite simple
Doug Boude offers this tutorial related to using Ajax in general (i.e. not library specific) within a Model-Glue application.
Ray Camden talks about coldfusion frameworks
Raymond Camden is inteviewed as part of Kola and Nick's ongoing podcast series and discusses Model-Glue as well as his recent experiences with Fusebox.
Raymond Camden on "Model-Glue, Spry, and You"
Ray is also interviewed by Clark Valberg as part of the pre-cf-Objective() series at Fusion Authority and discusses Model-Glue some more.
Model-Glue tip - Watch out for renamed events
More Ray ;) This time he discusses a common gotcha in Model-Glue development.
Illudium PU-36 Code Generator
A quick review on Brian Rinaldis code generator
Nick Tong gives a nice (and positive ;) review to my code generator.
Lighthouse Pro
Rough upgrade notes for Lighthouse pro - version 2.1.006 to 2.3
Nick Tong also discusses his recent upgrade of Lighthouse Pro and offers notes on what was required.
Reactor
Reactor.xml: Understanding the difference between 'relate' and 'link'
Doug Sims discusses handling relationships in Reactor.
Reactor and Aliased Linked Relationships
Nathan Mische expands on Doug's tutorial by discussing an issue he encountered with relationships in Reactor.
Building ColdFusion services with ColdSpring and Reactor, part 2
Tom Chiverton continues his tutorial series on using Reactor with ColdSpring.
Transfer
Comparing Transfer and Reactor
Sean Corfield lays out some core differences between the two popular ColdFusion ORM frameworks.
Need to Refactor Transfer to meet your server layout? Here you go!
Luis Majano has written an ANT script to change the directory location of Transfer.
ColdBox: New Transfer Sample Application! Transfer Rocks!!
Luis Majano has built a sample application integrating Transfer and ColdBox.
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