ColdFusion Open-Source Update - April 21, 2009
Posted on Apr 21, 2009
Four new projects and four updates this week along with a long list of announcements and tutorials. Sorry for the delay posting but I was off being patriotic on Patriots Day. No, this isn't a holiday to celebrate Tom Brady and Bill Bellichick as I would abstain from such a day.
New Releases and Updates
New Project: CF_XQuery
Initial Release
William Greenly released this project to promote the use of an XML based DBMS and run XQuery compliant statements against the datasource. This project comes with a transactional XMLDBMS.
New Project: cfsms
Initial Release
John Blayter wrote this SMS integration library which supports both 1 and 2 way SMS.
New Project: ColdFusion Twitter Lib
ColdFusion Twitter Lib
Pedro Claudio announces his library for accessing Twitter via ColdFusion.
ColdFusion Twitter Lib with BlogCFC
Pedro Claudio shows how to use his project to have BlogCFC post new entries directly to Twitter.
ColdFusion Twitter Lib V3.0 in RiaForge
Pedro Claudio released this bug fix update.
New Project: diskCache
Initial Release
Choop created this file-based caching tool.
ColdBox
ColdBox Presents: Groovy Integration
Luis Majano announces the release of a GroovyLoader plugin for ColdBox.
Mach-II
Mach-II Dashboard 1.0 Reaches RC1 and Released
Peter Farrell announces the release candidate for the Mach-II dashboard including a new "enableLogin" property.
Skeleton for Mach-II 1.6 Stable Release and Future Plans
Peter Farrell announces the release of the skeleton application to help offer a jump-start new Mach-II applications.
RocketFM
Odd bug fixed in RocketFM
Dan Vega shows how he fixed a bug in the Flex portion of his file manager example application.
ValidateThis!
ValidateThis! 0.7 - Super-Simple Integration
Bob Silverberg released version 0.7 of his validation framework including a number of major changes.
Announcements
Mango Blog
Related Entries 1.1
Adam Tuttle updated this plugin for Railo support.
Scribe 1.1
Adam Tuttle has updated his Mango plugin for email subscriptions.
Mango New Plugin Basic Pod
Pierre-Olivier Chassay created this Mango plugin.
CFFormProtect for Mango
Seb Duggan created a plugin for Jacob Munson's CFFormProtect project to help eliminate spam.
Text Ads Mango Plugin 0.1
Andrea Veggiani released this plugin for managing text ads via supported services.
Goodbye Captcha, Hello CFFormProtect
Laura Arguello announces two plugins available for Mango to integrate CFFormProtect.
ValidateThis!
ValidateThis! No Longer Relies on Coldspring
Bob Silverberg is working on changes to make his validation framework easier to integrate and framework agnostic.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
BlogCFC
Upgrading to BlogCFC 5.9.3 - The Tools, The Process, The Result
Aaron West talks about his upgrade process for moving to BlogCFC.
Blog Entry Disappears from BlogCFC
Eric Cobb discusses an issue whereby he inadvertently made a blog entry disappear and it wont return.
Now Running BlogCFC 5.9.3
Aaron West upgraded his BlogCFC install for the first time in about 3 years and discusses some of the changes.
CFMU
CFMU on complete advanced example
Dan Vega uses the on complete JavaScript function and a little jQuery for a more advanced example of his multi-file uploader.
CFMU on complete attribute
Dan Vega writes a tutorial on using CFMU's ability to call a JavaScript function when a file finishes uploading.
CFMU File Filters
Dan Vega shows how to implement file filters in his multiple file upload project.
CFTemplate
CF United Express NYC - Slides on Practical Code Generation
Peter Bell posts his slides regarding using his CFTemplate project for code generation.
ColdBox
Coldbox plugin to help with JavaScript Management Part II
Andrew Scott continues his discussion of his plugin to minimize JavaScript duplication.
A small ColdBox Tip
Anuj Gakhar offers a tip when using ColdBox's URL rewriting feature.
General (Frameworks)
Installing Frameworks via the Railo Administrator
Sean Corfield offers a guide to installing frameworks via the Railo administrator.
Comparing Application Frameworks recording
Sean Corfield posts the recording URL of his BACFUG presentation.
Mura CMS
Upgrading from Sava 5.0 to Mura 5.1
Tony Garcia discusses some extra steps required when upgrading Sava CMS 5.0 to its newly renamed Mura 5.1.
MXUnit
Test Driven Development with ColdFusion – Part 1: Driven by the cold
Part one of a series for the Adobe Developer Connection by Bill Shelton and Marc Esher.
ValidateThis!
Getting Started with VT and Transfer - Starting Over
Because of recent changes to ease integration, Bob Silverberg will be updating his tutorial series as the examples are broken.
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