ColdFusion Open-Source Update - March 3, 2008

New Releases and Updates

New Project: CF Library
Initial Release
This project by Heath Provost adds a "persistent library of functions and components."

New Project: ColdFISH
ColdFISH - the ColdFusion Integrated Syntax Highlighter Released!
Jason Delmore has released a syntax highlighter that will work with CFML, CFScript, HTML and JavaScript.

New Project: ScopeCache
ScopeCache on RIAForge
Ray Camden releases the caching custom tag that is included in BlogCFC as a separate project.

cfmemcached
cfmemcached v1.2 released today - download yours now
Jon Hirschi has released an update to his caching project.

Galleon
Galleon update
Ray Camden fixes a minor bug and makes some small changes in his forum software.

ImageUtils
ImageUtils updated
Ray added an AspectCrop method to the component.

Trimming An Image Canvas With ImageUtils.cfc ColdFusion Image Component
Two more new methods added for trimming an image.

Transfer
Transfer Transaction Support in SVN
Mark Mandel announces that he has broken his feature freeze and added transaction support to Transfer.

Announcements

BlogCFC
SpamStop plugin for BlogCFC released
Jax has released a spam plugin that utilizes the Project Honeypot initiative.

ColdBox
Ernst has done it again: ColdBox WebChart3D Plugin!
Luis Majano announces a WebCharts3D plugin by Ernst van der Linden.

New ColdBox Plugin: rssReader, get it from the code depot.
Luis Majano built a standalone plugin for reading an RSS feed.

Lighthouse
Where did Loci come from in Lighthouse Pro?
Ray Camden answers a users questions on the origin of some Lighthouse code terminology.

MXUnit
New Install Video
A how-to-install video has been made available.

User Group Manager
Restarting the User Group Manager Project
Phil Duba is restarting this project on RIAForge.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

ColdFISH
Color Coding in BlogCFC with ColdFish
Joshua Cyr shows how you modify BlogCFC to use ColdFISH for syntax highlighting.

Fusebox
Using XFA's
Will Wilson gives you a rundown on Exit FuseActions.

Illudium PU-36 Code Generator
Impetus For A Database Abstraction System
Chris Phillips starts a new series where he will detail how he used the generator to rebuild his application.

Model-Glue
ModelGlue Layout Factory
Dan Wilson talks about generating portions of HTML for Ajax enhanced pages.

MXUnit
Upcoming MXUnit Events
Includes talks to the ColdFusion Meetup group and at Webmaniacs.

Transfer
Using a Transfer decorator to log all database changes
Just as the title says.