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ColdFusion Open-Source Update - October 29, 2007

Posted on Oct 29, 2007

Only one release and one update this week, but a long list of announcements and tutorials. Back on U.S. soil this week. My (belated) Dolphins headed the opposite direction across the pond to play a worthless game in London. The only enjoyment I get out of this season is the weekly quotes from various commentators at the Miami Herald. This week's comes from Greg Cote:

Promoting the NFL in 2007 by showcasing the Dolphins makes about as much sense as promoting the great history and culture of England with a narrative by Benny Hill.

How hilarious and pathetic but true! Anyway, back to the topic at hand which I believe was ColdFusion and open-source...

New Releases and Updates

New Project: cfResizer
Introducing cfResizer - Easily Create Resizable/Draggable Elements
Todd Sharp creates a custom tag abstracting the resizer functionality built into the Ext JavaScript library.

Fusebox
Scaffolding fixes
Kevin Roche updates the scaffolding alpha code on the Fusebox web site.

Announcements

Model-Glue
Enterprise ColdFusion with Model-Glue Training Available
Doug Hughes' company, Alagad, will be offering this commercial training option.

BlogCFC
Second Survey
Ray Camden is conducting this short survey.

BoomSocket
boomsocket: Notifications Sent
Eric Jones posts that Digital Positions sent an important email to all alpha testers of BoomSocket.

Fusebox
Fusebox 5.5 Release Date
Sean Corfield posts that the official release date is December 1st, giving users one more month for beta testing.

ColdBox
ColdBox Beta 2: Flex/AIR Integration
Luis Majano had a significant announcement about a new feature upcoming in the ColdBox 2 release that will allow you to easily create remote proxies of your ColdBox events. This even had Sean Corfield reconsidering his prior announcement of Edmund since that was its primary intent as well (see below).

Squidhead
Squidhead Mailing List
Terrence Ryan announces that Squidhead now has a mailing list on Google Groups.

Edmund
Edmund - Event-Driven Model Framework
Sean Corfield announces an event driven framework for ColdFusion built specifically for Flex and Ajax. However, as noted earlier, this corresponds to what Luis announced for ColdBox and Sean was commenting on possibly reconsidering building it if the functionality already exists.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

Model-Glue
Model Glue Tips: Splitting out ColdSpring
Mark Drew shows how to split out your ColdSpring configurations from your Model-Glue configuration for larger applications.

BlogCFC
Modding BlogCFC: Moderated if URL is present
Modding BlogCFC: Moderated if URL is present - Update
Michael Dinowitz posts how to add moderation for posts containing URLS to your BlogCFC install.

MachBlog
CFAkismet / Machblog challenge
Michael Henke offered a wishlist item in return for someone showing how to configure CFAskimet in MachBlog and Prem Radhakrishnan answered the call.

AjaxCFC
ajaxCFC Multiple Suggest on one page
Duncon Loxton offers this tutorial on adding multiple auto-suggest features on a single view.

FarCry
FarCry - Getting Users to Our New Form
Scott Stroz continues his series of posts on FarCry.

Transfer
Transfer and TQL
Andy Jarrett posts this getting started with TQL tutorial.

Comments

FWIW, I will still continue with Edmund since it is framework neutral. But I may borrow some ideas from ColdBox's new proxy if I think it suits Edmund's purpose.

Posted By Sean Corfield / Posted on 10/29/2007 at 1:35 PM

What's wrong with Benny Hill representing England? The man was hilarious, and also produced some of the most enjoyable, titillating scenes that a young lad could sneakily view late at night in the 70's. Hats off for Benny, I say.

Posted By Tom Mollerus / Posted on 11/12/2007 at 5:55 PM