ColdFusion Open-Source Update - August 18, 2009
Four new projects and four updates this week in ColdFusion open source. A lot of tutorials and presentation code this week coming from CFUnited. Personally, this was my third CFUnited and I have to admit it was by far the best. The venue was great (awesome gym and pools), the food was great and most of all the content seemed to have been taken up a notch. Great job Stellr!
New Releases and Updates
New Project: cfgmail
Initial Release
Jason Panesar wrote a component to simplify sending and receiving emails via gmail.
New Project: CtzProwl
Initial Release
Critter posts his CFC for sending Prowl notifications.
Ctz-Prowl updated
Just some minor updates by Critter for his Prowl component.
New Project: FuseNG
FuseNG Announced
Adam Haskell announces that due to some irreconcilable differences with Teratech, he has decided to fork-a-doodle-doo the code base for Fusebox into FuseNG (I think it stands for Fusebox Next Generation...the next fork may be a prequel).
New Project: Generate ORM Mapping
Initial Release
Mark Mandel created this ColdFusion Builder plugin to generate actual Hibernate mapping XML for a CFC.
CFFM
CFFM 1.20 Released
Rick Root follows through on his promised update and fixes all the open issues as well as tests the application on CF9.
Rick Root adds some additional features to his prior release.
CFMU
CFMU Update: onCompleteAll
Dan Vega notes that the prior release fixed the on complete method for when a file has completed uploading.
Mach-II
Mach-II 1.8 Beta Available
Matt Woodward announces the beta of Mach-II 1.8 which is codenamed "Simplicity" and includes features like a form tag library with data-binding, a view tag library, environment property, and many, many more features.
shrinkURL
shrinkURL updated, new service added
Andy Matthews updates his wrapper for URL shortening services adding the new service called "f'in awesome".
Announcements
CFFM
CFFM 2.0 - Coming Soon
Rick Root promises a update to his file management application.
Codex Wiki
Flowplayer plugin for Codex wiki
Brian Ghidinelli wrote a plugin for the FlowPlayer video player that works in Codex.
ColdBox
ColdBox Chosen As Open Source Project of The Year!
Luis Majano announces receiving a community award from CFUnited.
FarCry
New location for FarCry subversion repositories
Michael Sharman notes a new location for the FarCry repositories.
General
ColdFusion Non-profit Announced at CFUnited
Jason Delmore announces the 4 ColdFusion Foundation which he is a cofounder and president of.
Mango Blog
New Free Theme: Company Blue
Laura points to a new design by Brice Cheddam.
Mura CMS
New Mura Plugin in the works: URL Intercepts
Grant Shepert posts about a plugin for Mura that he is developing that will intercept the URL and process it before handing it off to Mura.
Reactor
Reactor project gets filters
Tom Chiverton posts that Mark Drew added filters into the SVN release of Reactor.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
BlogCFC
Add Twitter to BlogCFC
Charlie Griefer shows how he added Twitter updates into his new BlogCFC skin.
CFGroovy
CFUnited (CFGroovy) Goodies
Barney Boisvert, whom I finally met for the first time at CFUnited, posts his session slides and code.
ColdBox
ColdBox and OO, Really?
Glyn Jackson discusses his learning of ColdBox and its ColdSpring integration.
CFUnited 2009 Presentation Posted
Luis Majano posts his CFUnited ColdBox presentation.
ColdFusion on Wheels
So you want to create a CFWheels application? (Part 5)
Mike Henke continues his tutorial series, covering the built in ORM in CFWheels.
CFWheels — Adding a new table with model, view, and controller
Part 2 of this series by Clarke Bishop that walks through the Head First Rails tutorials.
CFWheels Scaffolding Basics
Clarke Bishop starts his series converting Head First Rails tutorials to ColdFusion on Wheels.
Editing the View in CFWheels
Clarke Bishop continues his conversion of the Head First Rails tutorials to ColdFusion on Wheels.
Improving the tutorial: Object- and query-driven partials in ColdFusion on Wheels
Chris Peters updates the "Hello Database" tutorial with "query-driven partials."
Fusebox
CFUnited Presentation Roudup
Adam Haskell posts his Fusebox presentation that was understandably awkard given the FuseNG spork.
Mach-II
Removing Event-Handlers Programmatically
Peter Farrell posts a tutorial on the wiki showing how event handlers could be removed programatically on an application he wrote.
Transfer
Transfer 101 Presentation at CFUnited
Dan Vega posts the slides and code examples from his CFUnited presentation on Transfer ORM.
My Transfer 101 Presentation Code
Dan Vega points to the code download for his Transfer presentation examples.
But this time I'm missing a project: don't you think it's worth writing something about Railo 3.1.1 OpenSource Release? Or don't you write anything about Coldfusion engines?
