ColdFusion Open-Source Update - May 28
New Releases and Updates
New Project: DBX
Initial Release
DBX, created by Kevin Miller, is a tool for viewing database metadata for any MSSQL datasource. It gives a view of table and column data, as well as dependencies and stored procedures including generating code for cfquery and cfstoredprocedure tags.
Iterator
Recordset: Create Iterating Domain Objects via Inheritance
Paul Marcotte has bundled a recordset component with his iterator project that converts queries to arrays of structures and provides methods for accessing this data.
Squidhead
Squidhead and CFUnit
Terrence Ryan has adde a feature to Squidhead to have it generate its own unit tests and mock objects.
newBee
newBee - small update
Trond Ulseth updated his framework to give precedence to form over URL scoped variables.
ICEGen
ICEGen rewritten for version 20050521b
Tony Petruzzi has rewritten a large portion of his recently released generator to improve the quality and readability of the generated output as well as add an HTML UI to the front-end.
Kalendar
Kalendar 1.0 RC3 Released
TJ Downes updated his calendar application to make the generated output XHTML compliant.
Announcements
Fusebox
Fusebox Video Contest
If you make a YouTube video showing how to build a Fusebox application in 10 minutes, a la Rails, you can win a ticket to CFUnited.
DataMgr
Prototypes / QuerySim in DataMgr
Steve Bryant offers a detailed explanation of how to use the QuerySim feature in data manager.
Database Introspection or Database Definition
Steve compares the database mapping techniques used by DataMgr, ObjectBreeze, Transfer and Reactor.
Transfer
Transfer Mailing List: 130 People!!!
Mark Mandel is excited that the Transfer mailing list has grown dramatically since cf.Objective() - just wait until the support emails start rolling in and see how excited he is then ;)
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
Model-Glue
Ask a Jedi: Moving existing application code into Model-Glue
Ray Camden shows how to move application scoped variables and application.cfc method logic into Model-Glue.
Custom Validation with Generic Commit: a Model-Glue Case Study
Doug Boude offers this tutorial showing how he verified a unique email address while utilizing the generic commit feature.
Watch out for the reserved event values in Model-Glue
There are certain variable names that are reserved in Model-Glue and Ray ran into one of them.
BlogCFC
Google Supplemental Results for BlogCFC
Josh Cyr is wondering why supplemental results from his blog are missing on Google, though he clears BlogCFC as the cause.
CFUnit
My Weekend (Data Transformation,TDD,CFUnit)
Steve Bryant shows how CFUnit saved a recent project of his.
