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ColdFusion Open-Source Update - November 27

Posted on Nov 27, 2006

Some important updates this week, but, relatively speaking, it was quiet with two new projects and several updates. However, there have been some great tutorials released this week for various projects.New Project: Gravatar Caching Service
Initial Release
Ray Camden has released another (!) new project. this one is designed to help with the slowness you may notice on sites that support Gravatars. The project can support a cache for one or many sites on a single server.

New Project: ConfigCFC
Initial Release
Jim Collins' (with help from Nic Tunney) new project allows you to easily set application and session scope variables via XML, which eliminates the need to edit Application.cfm.

Illudium PU-36 Code Generator
New Features Added to Flex Version
I added several of the most requested features to the recently released Flex version of my code generator, including save file, cfproperty in bean and ActionScript value objects.

cfcExplorer
Version 0.3 Released
Todd Sharp has updated his Flex-based component explorer including new features such as caching of the component tree, print support, method searching and more.

cfcUnit
cfcUnit Runner Released
Laura Arguello has released a new project built with Flex and ColdFusion that allows you to see only failing tests or errors as well as selectively run tests.

Model-Glue
Important Unity Changes
Joe Rinehart discussed two recent changes he has made to the upcoming Beta 2 release of Model-Glue, including not automatically creating scaffolds and removing resource pooling.

Unity Backwards Compatibility Issues
Ray Camden highlights some changes in Unity that can cause applications written in 1.1 to break when Unity is installed.

Unofficial 1.1 Patch
Nic Tunney has released a "patch" for Model-Glue 1.1 to allow it to support an tag to allow you to break apart the config into usable pieces without requiring absolute file system paths.

CFUnit
Extending Your Unit Tests
Robert Blackburn gives a tutorial on some ways that CFUnit can be extended and customized.

ColdSpring
ColdSpring for Beginners Series Part 1
Part 2 - Constructor Injection
Part 3 - Setter Injection
Andy Jarret has written an excellent set of beginner tutorials on ColdSpring.

FarCry
FarCry and Extensibility
Extending the Webtop
A couple of FarCry tutorials from Mark Kruger.

Comments

And yet nothing noted from www.riaforge.com - lots happening there. And "unofficial patches" for a framework - scary.

Posted By Peter Tilbrook / Posted on 11/27/2006 at 10:21 PM

Cheers for the link Brian! Keep up the list, it is appreciated!

Posted By Andy Jarrett / Posted on 11/28/2006 at 4:10 AM

Just wanted to say that I do appreciate your hard work and keep the RSS feed bookmarked in Safari so I can keep up with what's happening.

Posted By Lola Lee Beno / Posted on 11/28/2006 at 8:47 AM

I think your efforts are great!
When I am looking for free stuff, this is one of the first places I look.

Thank you!

Posted By David / Posted on 11/28/2006 at 1:09 PM

Brian,

Are we to believe that this represents all of the updates you give us with all the free time you have left after your regular full-time job, your work on the side, updating your blog, taking care of your two children, heading up Boston CFUG, and developing your own open source projects?

Sheesh, what a nerve! I don't know why you even bother posting this drivel!

-G

Posted By Glenn Gervais / Posted on 12/04/2006 at 7:46 AM

I clicked on the "complainers" name link at was taken to http://www.actcfug.com/ and I have to say that you have got to visit the site and listen to the "Model View Controller" song on the home page. It's a riot.

-Aaron

Posted By Aaron Roberson / Posted on 12/05/2006 at 1:19 PM