ColdFusion Open-Source Update - October 8, 2007
Posted on Oct 08, 2007
Count 'em...six new projects and six updates this week. Thankfully we had seven rather six tutorials or this would have become the Open-Source Update of the Beast. Perhaps it is because it is October and Halloween is near and, fittingly, ComputerWorld recently declared ColdFusion undead. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your perspective), I think this means that ColdFusion must now feast on the flesh of living languages. Watch out PHP!
New Releases and Updates
New Project: Share CFC
First version of Share CFC Released
Ray Camden has released a CFC wrapping the functionality of the recently announced Adobe Share API.
New Project: SolColdfusion
Coldfusion Solr Client - SolColdfusion
Wayne Graham has released a project to support using Solr for ColdFusion. Solr is an open-source project from the Apache Foundation that is an enterprise search server.
New Project: cfEasyAlbum
cfEasyAlbum - Version 1.01 released
The latest version of this photo album from Vincent Collins includes multi-image upload via SWFUpload and automatic image resizing.
New Project: CFADMIN Web Service API
Initial Release
Russ Michaels has released this project which was intended for use with the HELM contol panel and supports CF 6 through 8.
New Project: AppLoader
AppLoader: Loading Application-Scoped Components
Steve Bryant has released a project that will reload application-scoped components based upon a simple configuration, and recursively determining dependencies. He and Brian Kotek get into an interesting discussion in the comments on the merits of his approach compared to ColdSpring.
VarScoper
VarScoper 1.1 - now with cfscript parsing
Mike Schierberl and Zac Spitzer have updated the var scope checker with support for cfscript.
Closures for ColdFusion
Collection class for ColdFusion
Sean Corfield ahs updated his closures library to include a collection class that allows you to create and modify collections with minimal code.
Mach-II
Mach-II 1.5 is Gold
Kyle Hayes posts that 1.5 is now the official stable build of Mach-II including a host of new features including support for modules, includes and SES URLs. In addition, there are new workshops being offered by GreatBizTools LLC, Peter Farrell's company.
CCTApp
UPDATE: CCTApp SQL Server 2000 Script Added
Tom de Manincor has updated his skeleton application with SQL Server support.
Microformats CFC
Updates and fixes for Microformats CFC
Tom Mollerus has fixed a couple of bugs in his component and updated the format types to the latest version from the microformats.org site.
Javaloader
Javaloader v0.5 Released
Mark Mandel has posted a new version which allows the component to still work even when 'Disable access to internal ColdFusion Java components' in ColdFusion 8.
Announcements
SnipEx
Announcing Snip-A-Thon 2007 - Win Big Prizes!
Todd Sharp, creator of CFSnippets.org is running a contest for contributions to and promotions about the site. Prizes include copies of Savvy Content Manager and Fusion Reactor.
cfImageCropper
And The Winner Is...
Todd Sharp got second place in the first ReainFest at AjaxRain.cfm.
ColdFire
ColdFire Guide
Raymond Camden posts about Nathan Mische's article on how ColdFire works.
Kalendar
Reminder: Entries for the Kalendar UI Design Contest are due 11:59:59PM on Friday Oct 12th
Dan Wilson posts that the UI design contest is nearing completion and is looking for additional entries. The prize is a copy of ColdFusion 8 Standard.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
SquidHead
Facebook in 17 Minutes
Terrence Ryan has posted a video showing off his application generator by creating a Facebook-type application in under 20 minutes.
Model-Glue
Yet Another Model-Glue Quickstart...
Doug Boude posts presentation material for a Model-Glue turotial.
BlogCFC
Using Blog this from Digg to BlogCFC
Duncan Loxton has posted an update on how to configure Digg so that you can use the "Blog This" feature with BlogCFC.
Fusebox
What is Scaffolding and How to use it - Part 3
Kevin Roche continues his series on using scaffolding in Fusebox.
BugLogHQ
BugLogHQ: New 'Rules' feature.
Oscar Arevalo gives a detailed overview of this new feature in his bug tracker.
Reactor
Getting the table name right in Reactor custom Gateway methods
Tom Chiverton discusses how to get the table name from Reactor's configuration details.
POI Utility CFC
Adding Date support to POIUtil.cfc when reading excel sheets
Luis Majano shows how to parse numbers from dates using the formatting in an Excel spreadsheet.
Comments
Posted By Sean Corfield / Posted on 10/08/2007 at 1:31 PM
Posted By Brian Rinaldi / Posted on 10/08/2007 at 5:11 PM