ColdFusion Open-Source Update - April 13, 2009
Posted on Apr 13, 2009
One new project and four updates this week. I am not too much in the mood for funny quips this week as last Wednesday the wheels off my three day old car were stolen right in front of my home and I am still in the midst of trying to get everything resolved. At this point, I have spent more time on the phone with the shop or the insurance company or whatever than I did with my car.
New Releases and Updates
New Project: Flex Multi-file upload
Flex Multi-file upload
Adam Tuttle created a multi-file uploader using Flex with a ColdFusion back-end.
CF Gallery Creator
CF Gallery Creator & jQuery Slider Gallery! New and Improved!
Michael Evangelista updates his image gallery creator with a jQuery slider.
CFMU
CFMU is back and better than ever
Dan Vega rewrote his ColdFusion Multi-File Uploader converting it into a custom tag to simplify integrating it.
ColdFire
ColdFire 1.3
Nathan Mische released an update to his debugging plugin and this post covers all of the new features in detail.
ValidateThis!
It's Official, ValidateThis! Works with Reactor
Bob Silverberg posts that given the new ValidationService, his validation framework works with Reactor.
Bob Silverberg updates his validation framework so that you can simply pass an object to the ValidationService to be validated rather than integrate the framework into your objects.
Announcements
Fusebox
Fusebox Update
Adam Haskell posts about the new Trac, JIRA and Conflience wiki on FuseboxFramework.org.
Mango Blog
Mango Blog Plugin: Spammy! v1.1
Creative Juices updates their comment spam keyword filtering plugin.
Laura Arguello posts about two subscription plugins developed for Mango.
Mura CMS
Sava CMS Has a New Name - Mura CMS
Malcolm O'Keeffe posts about Sava changing its name due to a trademark challenge.
Bob Silverberg posts about Sava's recent name change to Mura.
MXUnit
MXUnit ExpectedException
Adam Haskell discusses a feature he contributed to MXUnit that made a recent release whereby you can test for a specific exception you expect.
Razuna
Call for Developers
Nitai of Six Signs posts that the Razuna project is looking for developers to help them integrate Razuna with other systems.
Thor
Thor can now also handle client-side validation
John Mason added an example application showing how to use Thor with jQuery for client-side validation.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
CFWheels
My own CFWheels Geek Week is coming…
Tony Petruzzi is taking a week off to work on CFWheels.
CodexWiki
CodexWiki Database Installation Notes
Sami Hoda explains some installation woes he had with CodexWiki.
Sami Hoda shares some odd issues he is having with CodexWiki.
ColdBox
April Meeting Recordings: ColdBox with Luis Majano
Luis Majano presented to the Orange County Adobe Developers Group.
Coldbox
Coldbox plugin to help with JavaScript Management
Andrew Scott discusses how he created a plugin to solve some JavaScript code duplication issues.
ColdBox
Comparing ColdBox and Fusebox
John Whish shows how the standards of ColdBox and Fusebox without XML are similar.
John Whish discusses using the ColdBox proxy for building a Flex application.
Mach-II
Making your application flow obvious in Mach-II with event-mappings
Dave Shuck discusses some best practices for making your configuration XML much more readable and understandable.
Model-Glue
10 Easy Steps to set up Model-Glue 2: Unity on a Shared Host
Glenn Gervais shows what you need to do to ensure Model-Glue works on shared hosting.
Comments
For what it's worth (admittedly, not much), my flex multi-file upload widget should work with almost any upload-capable server-side language; I just gave my example in ColdFusion because that's what I'm familiar with.
Posted By Adam Tuttle / Posted on 04/14/2009 at 6:34 AM
Don't let those insurance companies get away with anything!
DW
Posted By Dan Wilson / Posted on 04/14/2009 at 7:33 AM
Since the theft, I had a car alarm installed (one is less likely to hang around a car that is making lots of noise) but what I was not aware of and wanted to bring up where 'wheel locks'.
In a nutshell, they replace one of the lug nuts on the wheels with special ones that require a metal 'key' to remove them. Thereby rendering a regular wrench unable to remove the wheel lock easily unless you have the metal key.
Nothing is impenetrable but they do add another layer of deterrent. And at less than $100 to purchase and install, they are worth it.
Posted By Gabriel / Posted on 04/14/2009 at 10:39 AM