ColdFusion Open-Source Update - August 11, 2008

Four new projects and six updates this week. I am struggling with a dead 3 month old MacBook Pro today, which is why this post is happening so late. Basically, my MB Pro would crash regularly and this morning it crashed and wouldn't turn back on. Thankfully my local authorized repair shop got a seven day repair done in a day - well, not quite done but my laptop is working or, as I like to consider it, undead. Unfortunately my newly undead laptop can only come out at night.

New Releases and Updates

New Project: BoxBrowse
Initial Release
Ben Garrett posted this project, which is a discontinued commercial project, that is a web-based file browser.

New Project: BoxSyndication
Initial Release
Another project by Ben Garrett; this one is similar to the CFFeed tag but with some additional features and it works on CF7.

New Project: CacheBox
Initial Release
Isaac Dealey released a caching service agent in SVN at RIAForge.

New Project: TransferSync
Initial Release
Tom de Manincor built this project which is a JMS gateway built to synchronize Transfer's native cache across a cluster.

CF Debug Copy
CF Debug Copy for Firefox Update
Nathan Mische posts that his plugin now works with FireFox 3.

CF Debug Copy for IE on RIAForge
Nathan Mische has release a version of his query debug copy plugin that works for IE.

GoogleCal
GoogleCal Update
Raymond Camden updated his Google Calendar component which reduces the size and complexity.

MXUnit
MXUnit eclipse plugin update. This one's for Barney
Marc Esher announces a new version of the MXUnit Eclipse plugin which includes a new feature inspired by Barney Boisvert.

POI Utility
POI Utility - Blank Cells And Formulas In ColdFusion 7 Custom Tags
Ben Nadel posts a bug fix and formula support for CF7 to his Excel file utility.

Sebtags Custom Tag Set
Introducing cf_sebTable
Steve Bryant added a tag for auto edit table creation to his custom tag set.

SpoolMail
SpoolMail update
Raymond Camden posted about an update contributed by Mek Logan that makes a dramatic performance improvement.

Announcements

BlogCFC
And now for the really important announcement - Meet the BlogCFC Team
Raymond Camden introduces the half dozen other contributors to his blog application.

ColdBox
CBOX-101 Core ColdBox Landing Page is now online
A new page has been set up for the training course.

ColdBox Platform Training Outline and More
Luis Majano releases the outline for the official ColdBox training course.

New ColdBox Store Launched!
Get your ColdBox gear at the new store, including the ColdBox bib. You know you need one!

Over 3000 ColdBox downloads already!!
ColdBox has been downloaded 3000 times since the new web site was launched a couple months ago.

Mach-II
New Documentation: Introduction to Logging and Introduction to Caching
Matt Williams added two introductions to the Mach-II wiki.

Don't Fear the Wiki! Or, How You Can Contribute to Mach-II
Matt Woodward is encouraging contributions to the Mach-II wiki.

The Mach-II Primer has a new home
Adrian Moreno contributed his Mach-II Primer to Brian Fitzgerald's new wiki.

Submitting Enhancement Requests for Mach-II
Matt Woodward discusses how to request features to Mach-II.

New Mach-II Wiki Outlining The Config File
Will Tomlinson points people to Brian Fitzgerald's wiki covering the Mach-II configuration XML file.

onTap
Call for Contributors
Isaac Dealey is asking for onTap users to get involved with the project.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

ColdBox, Transfer
Coldbox/Transfer - Use Those Quotes! « Will’s Blog … Where Sexy Code Resides.
Will Tomlinson posts about a simple mistake that can be made in your configuration file.

Model-Glue
Charlie Griefer, Model-Glue, and CFWindow
Joe Rinehart comments on Charlie Griefer's tutorial.

more cfwindow fun (model-glue, too!)
Charlie Griefer shows how to use CFWindow in a Model-Glue application.

MXUnit
MXUnit 1.0
Mike Rankin discusses version 1 and what he would like to see in future versions.

WhosOnCFC
My Entertainment for the Day
Shane Zehnder begins to show how to use his component to view SQL injection attacks on your site.

WhosOnCFC SQL Attack View
Shane Zehnder posts how to use his component to find SQL injection attacks on your site.

Actually "released" is a bit of a misnomer with regard to CacheBox... "initiated" would be more appropriate... the code that's in SVN doesn't work yet... it's just me throwing out some of my ideas thus far from what I've done before and what I've read. Hopefully there will be some working code in there soon -- and it's liable to include for example automatic detection and use of Railo's cluster scope. But that won't be until I've had a good bit more time to iron out the specifics. I do however welcome ideas, critique of and conversation about the code I've put into SVN already. :)