ColdFusion Open-Source Update - March 30, 2008

While there is only one new release and one update this week, there were some potentially very significant announcements this week. First, Six Signs has announced plans, driven in part by the recent New Atlanta announcement, to open-source their asset management and CMS tool. Second, I leaked some details on new wiki software being released by Luis Majano and Mark Mandel. Third, Peter Farrell discusses the future of Mach-II and some important new features that will be coming. Lastly, Geoff Bowers discusses the fallout of FarCry's application to be included in the Google Summer of Code. All must reads in my opinion and leading to a busy week after all, if not in actual releases.

New Releases and Updates

New Project: CFPrototype
Initial Release
This project by Qasim Rasheed will help create an HTML prototype of an application.

POI Utility CFC
POI ColdFusion Custom Tags First Release
Ben Nadel has released some custom tags that simplify implementing his POI utility for create Excel files.

Announcements

ColdBox
ColdBox Survey: Please help out.
Luis Majano posts about a survey that will help guide the direction of ColdBox development.

ColdExt
ColdExt Wiki and Getting Started Tutorial
Justin Carter has enabled the wiki at RIAForge and added some documentation there.

FarCry
FarCry GSoC Washout
FarCry did not make the Google Summer of Code cut unfortunately, and Geoff shares some of the somewhat political reasoning behind Google's decision.

FarCry Fortress Sneak Peaks
Geoff Bowers will be presenting FarCry's next release at a number of venues in the next few months.

Galleon
Quick BlueDragon/Galleon Tip
If you are using BlueDragon with MySQL, you will need a fix for the MySQL connector to fix aliases in Galleon's queries.

Mach-II
Mach-II 1.6 Progress with Beta Coming Soon
Peter Farrell discusses some of the upcoming features including caching, logging and broadcast style listeners.

Media Asset Management
SixSigns announces free open source Enterprise Media Asset Management
Six Signs announces that their Media Asset Management project, which also includes a CMS, previously available as licensed commercial software will be open-sourced (and compatible with BlueDragon open-source).

MXUnit
New MXUnit Ant Automation Video
Bill posts a video about using ANT to automate testing.

Transfer
Transfer 1.0 Secrets Revealed!
I spill the beans on the new Transfer documentation site and a new wiki software built with Transfer and ColdBox.

An Architect's View - Transfer 1.0 - Brian Rinaldi teases the community
Sean Corfield talks about my "leak" of Transfer 1.0 information and his very positive sense of the direction for Transfer.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

1ssBlog
Knowing 1ssBlog better: Skins
Ed Tabara shows how to modify skins for his blog software.

ColdSpring
An Introduction to Integrating ColdFusion, ColdSpring, and Flex 3
Bruce Phillips shares the presentation materials and samples from his presentation to the Kansas City RIA user group.

Stricter OOP using AOP!
Dominic Watson shows how to enforce strict practices about variable scoping utilizing AOP.

FarCry
Geoff Bowers on the FarCry Framework
Kay Smoljak interviews Geoff Bowers of Daemon.

FarCry Interview on Sitepoint
Daemon links to Geoff Bowers interview.

Mango Blog
Using your MangoBlog install for OpenID
Hofo (no name on site) has shared a plugin for Mango that uses OpenID.

Integrating Google Webmaster Tools with MangoBlog
Hofo has created a plugin to insert the verification code into the HTML head for Google Webmaster Tools.