ColdFusion Open-Source Update - May 14

New Releases and Updates

New Project: Iterator
Create Iterating Domain Objects Using Composition
Paul Marcotte created this project which is basically a component tha encapsulates the loading of ColdFusion queries and iterating over the "objects" they contain.

LylaCaptcha
New Version of LylaCaptcha - 0.1Beta
Peter Farrell has updated his CAPTCHA project including updated documentation and some bug fixes.

CFJsonService
CFJsonService V0.3 released
Andrew Scott has released an update to his JSON-RPC Ajax framework.

Lighthouse Pro
Lighthouse Pro 2.4 Released (ColdFusion Bugtracker)
Ray Camden has updated his bug tracking application to include some significant updates to the attachments functionality and some other bug fixes and improvements.

LightWire
InitMethod Added to LightWire
Peter Bell's dependency injection framework now allows you to call init on a fully initialized bean before returning it from LightWire.

SquidHead
Squidhead - 3 Big Additions
Terrence Ryan has updated SquidHead to including a generated business layer, XML structure caching and forien key support.

Concurrency for CFMX
Concurrency for CFMX updated (again)
Some minor bug fixes to Sean Corfiled's concurrency library.

Illudium PU-36 Code Generator
Illudium Code Generator Updated
My code generator no longer requires you to modify any code at all when installing because it now prompts for your ColdFusion administrator password. This update also includes some minor bug fixes and _finally_ the release of the Flex source.

Canvas
Critical update for Canvas (ColdFusion Wiki) users
Ray fixes a serious bug for users with multiple wikis running off the same install.

CF Spry Forms
Beta .6 added
The Latest version of Dana Kowalski's spry tags includes text area support.

Announcements

Model-Glue
Model-Glue List: No more Topica!
Another group moves off Topica - making the Topica fan angry (if their is even one fan of Topica). It is now on Google Groups.

ColdBox
ColdBox & Ajax In a Tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!!
Luis Majano released a new guide for using ColdBox with Ajax.

ColdBox My First App Guide Unleashed!
A hands-on guide for ColdBox noobs.

Transfer
Branding for Transfer released at cf.Objective()
Transfer has a new logo and new URL - look for a new site soon!

Fusebox
Fusebox 6 - a status update
The two themes for Fusebox 6 will be simplicity and extensibility.

Transfer list lexicon update for fusebox
Nick Tong updates his Transfer lexicon for Fusebox 5.

Fusebox polls
Sean Corfield highlights two polls going on on the Fusebox mailing list.

Mach II
Mach-II: No longer just a fan... a member!
Dave Shuck is now the community liason in an as yet untitled position within Team Mach II.

New Team Mach-II Members
Peter Farrell highlights new team members including Kurt Wiersma, Kyle Hayes and Dave Shuck.

ColdSpring
I'm a ColdSpring contributor!
Peter Farrell has been granted committ permissions on the ColdSpring project.

MachBlog
Running MachBlog on Mach-II 1.5
Just an FYI from Matt Woodward, MachBlog runs fine on the bleeding-edge 1.5 release of Mach II.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

FarCry
Trond Ulseth offers some FarCry tag library turorials:
Farcry: Know your tag libraries - skin:buildLink
Farcry: Know your tag libraries - introduction

Coldcourse
Creating Top Level User URLs with Coldcourse
Adam Fortuna shows how to use ColdCourse for managing root level SES URLs.

Mach II
MachII Includes
Dan Wilson covers a new feature coming in Mach II 1.5, which is the ability to break up your XML file using includes.

cf.Objective() - What's New in Mach-II 1.5 Slides
Peter Farrell posts the material from his presentation at cf.Objective() covering the long list of new features in Mach II 1.5.

Model-Glue
MG:Unity - Calling your own custom reactor gateway methods using a Generic list
Doug Sims posts this tutorial.

Transfer
Code from my presentation on Transfer ORM to the DFWCFUG
Dave Shuck posts the material from his CFUG presentation.

Transfer Woes
Tony Petruzzi discusses a difficulty addressing null values the way he would like in Transfer.

ByteSpring
ByteSpring Open-Source CMS Review
I review Jason Sheedy's CMS project and am pretty impressed.

ColdFire
Optional ColdFire Debugging
Dave Konopka shows how to implement ColdFire debugging in a way that can be turned off and on for shared environments.