ColdFusion Open-Source Update - October 15, 2007
On a completely different note, I am starting a total revamp of the ColdFusion Open-Source List. You can view my current progress by going here. It uses a bunch of the new Ajax UI stuff in ColdFusion 8 including CFGRID, CFWINDOW, CFAJAXPROXY and EncodeJSON(). I am looking for opinions on how I can continue to make this more useful. One idea I have is to more directly tie this weekly update in with the actual list. Anyway, would love to hear from my readers.
New Releases and Updates
New Project: Validat
Introducing Validat - A Data Validation Engine for ColdFusion
Jeff Chastain of Alagad has released a pluggable data validation framework that also allows you to build your own validation rules.
New Project: Mango
Beta 2 Released
Mango is a blog application created by Laura Arguello of AsFusion. The beta 1 was actually released some time ago but I hesitated adding it to the list since Laura had conspicuously never announced it. Well, she still hasn't and hopefully she is not annoyed at me for posting this, but when I have looked at this application, it looks really impressive and worthy of some publicity. Hopefully I will be able to post a full review in the near future.
New Project: ezDoc
Initial Release
Randy Merrill hs created this project that creates documentation by parsing CFC's similar to cfcdoc.
New Project: CF_JQuery
CF_JQUERY on riaforge
Andrea Campolonghi has released a new set of custom tags to simplify working with JQuery in ColdFusion.
toXML
Update #1: toXML
Ray Camden, the Richard Whiteley of open-source development in CF, has updated his XML conversion component, now allowing you to only convert specific columns in a query.
BlogCFC
Update #2: BlogCFC 5.9
Ray Camden, the Mary Faulkner of open-source development in CF, has updated his blog application with items such as cfthread for ping support and a contact form by default.
Galleon
Update #3: Galleon 2
Ray Camden, the Morris Katz of open-source development in CF, has released the latest version of his forum software including a new admin UI, avatar support and more.
DataMgr Utility Set
NoticeMgr Goes Gold
Steve Bryant has released the stable version of his component for dynamic, event-driven emails.
Mach-II
Mach-II 1.5 Final Released
This was released (and made it on the list) last week, but this is the official post including a full list of new features.
BugLog
BugLog 1.2 Rules!!!
Oscar Arevalo has updated his bug tracker application with new rules engine.
Announcements
cfCommerce
cfCommerce.org - a free coldfusion eCommerce solution
Nick Tong announces a new initiative he and others from the Open Source Contributors Group have undertaken to build an open source e-commerce system in ColdFusion.
Reactor
Reactor SVN is Online!
Jeff Chastain posts that the Reactor Subversion repository is fixed.
Calling all SVN/Apache Gurus - Reactor needs your help!
Jeff Chastain posts about some Subversion issues he is encountering, but which were fixed in the above post.
FarCry
FarCry: modBreeze Plugin Released
Daemon has released a plugin to generate presentations in FarCry using ColdFusion 8's new cfpresentation tag.
Mach-II
cf.Objective() 2008 Pre-Conference Mach-II Workshops!
Peter Farrell announces that Team Mach-II is offering pre-conference workshops prior to the cf.Objective() conference in May.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
Model-Glue
Email Fixed And A Note To Model Glue GMail Users
Todd Sharp discusses an issue he encountered using the Email ActionPack with Model-Glue and how to fix it.
FarCry
FarCry Inspire Session Notes & Codebase
Geoff Bowers of Daemon's presentation from this year's MAX.
Customized FarCry Install
Scott Stroz of Alagad discusses his experiences and decisions installing FarCry.
Squidhead
Facebook Demo Part 2
Terrence Ryan updates the Flash version of his presentation as it was causing issues.
POI Utility CFC
Adding Date support to POIUtil.cfc (Jakarta POI) when WRITING excel sheets
Luis Majano follows up last weeks post on handling dates when reading Excel spreadsheets with one on writing.
