ColdFusion Open Source Update - August 23, 2010
Posted on Aug 23, 2010
Six new projects and three updates this week in ColdFusion open source. Sorry this post got a bit delayed but given the new job I haven't actually been able to completely set up my new laptop and I cannot imagine writing this post without the little AIR application I built to help anymore. Anyway, a number of interesting releases this week. Besides, the usual API wrapper components, Adam Tuttle's REST framework Taffy seemed very interesting and generated some buzz on Twitter.
New Releases and Updates
New Project: CFiCalLib
Initial Release
This project by Shannon Hicks generates an iCal that you can download or attach to an email.
New Project: IpInfoDB
Initial Release
Marco Williams created this component that works with IPInfoDB.com to get geo location information based upon IP address.
New Project: Outlook Appointment CFC
Outlook Appointment CFC
This component by Stephen Weyrick creates an Outlook appointment string that can be used to create an .ics file.
New Project: Permatime API CFC Wrapper
Initial Release
Matt Gifford created this component which uses the Permatime API to return a URL for your supplied details - good for sharing calendars.
New Project: queryOrganizer
Initial Release
Greg Moser created this component for sorting and filtering query data that also supports an interesting weighted search feature.
New Project: Taffy
Taffy: A Restful Framework for ColdFusion
Adam Tuttle releases his framework for buildin Restful API's with semantically correct URI's and shows how to use it.
Bit.ly ColdFusion Wrapper
Updated Bit.ly ColdFusion Wrapper
Matt Gifford updated his bit.ly component to handle some API changes.
CfTracker
2.1 RC2 released!
David Boyer posts the latest release candidate including features like which includes a number of improvements and fixes from the prior release candidate.
ColdBox
3.0.0 M6.1 Update Released
Luis Majano released this small update that addresses some critical fixes discovered after the M6 release.
Announcements
CacheBox
Initial CacheBox documentation released
The documentation for Luis Majano's new caching framework has been released.
CfTracker
CfTracker 2.2 Sneak Peak
David Boyer shows some of the plans for version 2.2 of his ColdFusion monitoring application.
ColdBox
ColdBox Job Opening
Luis Majano posts this New York-based telecommute position that requires ColdBox.
Galleon
Quick question for Galleon users
Raymond Camden wants to hear where users are using Galleon and whether they would utilize localization support.
Mach-II
Introducing New Team Mach-II Member: Brian Klaas
Peter Farrell announces another new Mach-II team member, Brian Klaas of Johns Hopkins University.
Mango Blog
Mango Github Gists plugin
Andrea Campolonghi releases this plugin for Mango Blog that embeds Github Gists, which are essentially code snippets, in a Mango post.
Mura CMS
Meld Gallery, Because Everybody Wants One
Grant Shepert announces this gallery plugin for Mura CMS that is available as open-source or commercially licensed.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
Apptacular
Apptacular ColdFusion Builder Extension - Reigning in Relationships
Terry Ryan offers this tutorial on using his application generation ColdFusion Builder extension in a manner that uses less aggressive relationship building.
ColdFusion on Wheels
New Tutorial: Wheels, AJAX, and You
Chris Peters announces a new ColdFusion on Wheels tutorial he worked on with Raul Riera.
Improving the tutorial (again): including partials to DRY up forms in Wheels
Chris Peters shows how to create partials that represent portions of code that need to be reused across views.
FarCry
FarCry inline request profiling & logging
Geoff Bowers posts about a new feature in version 6.0.6 that helps with profiling code and logging output.
cacheByVars default values
Geoff Bowers details the cacheByVars view decorator.
Framework One
FW/1's populate() method uses named arguments
Seb Duggan posts this quick tip on using Framework One's populate method.
Mura CMS
Advanced Plugin Development for the Mura CMS: Part III: ColdSpring & Datasource
Grant Shepert shows how to integrate ColdSpring and a datasource into your Mura plugin.
Advanced Plugin Development for the Mura CMS: Part II: Framework (and Reset)
Grant Shepert continues his series on developing Mura plugins.
ValidateThis
Validate new passwords with ORM and ValidateThis
Seb Duggan shows how to handle password confirmation fields using validateThis, ORM and FW/1.
Automagic Validations for ColdFusion Objects - CFUnited Slide Deck Available
Bob Silverberg posts his slide deck covering his ValidateThis validation framework.
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