ColdFusion Open-Source Update - August 25, 2009
Posted on Aug 25, 2009
Three new projects and three updates of ColdFusion open source projects this week. It's now late August, and you know what that means! You don't? Ok, it means that starting very soon, the witless banter of the open-source update introductions will be moving to the topic of football, specifically the Miami Hurricanes and Dolphins. I expect it to begin as usual, with a sense hopefulness tinged with doubt. By October you should notice its moved to fits of anger and frustration and by November it should already have turned to self-pity and despair. Finally, by December it will have completed the cycle into a sense of resignation and hopelessness. However, now that I've given away the ending, you can feel free to ignore future intros and skip right to the guts of the post. Enjoy!
New Releases and Updates
New Project: BWT ColdFusion Contact Form Component
Initial Release
Peter Rjabanedelia created this project to develop quick and painless contact forms.
New Project: Quicksilver
Initial Release
Brian Carr released this MVC framework for ColdFusion 9 that includes features like dependency injection, AOP and more.
New Project: Splash CMS
Initial Release
Russ Johnson built this CMS based upon the Radiant CMS built in Rails.
BlogCFC
BlogCFC 5.9.4 Released
Raymond Camden released this version with the "analytics stuff."
CFFM
CFFM 1.3 Release Candidate
Rick Root has been "ajaxifying" his file manager.
Mango Blog
Mango Blog Test Drive
Gary Gilbert gives his initial impressions having tried Mango Blog - hint: he likes it.
Mango 1.4 Released
Laura Arguello posts about the new version of her blog software including a long list of improvements and new features. If you already have Mango you should be able to auto-upgrade your install.
Mango Blog 1.4 Upgrade / Railo Issue
Todd Rafferty explains an issue with the latest Mango Blog update and Railo - as well as the fix.
Announcements
Mach-II
Using a Session Facade in Mach-II
Eric Cobb writes about his experience writing a tutorial for the Mach-II wiki.
Mango Blog
New Default Theme: Cutline
A new default Mango theme.
Fancybox Light plugin
Mark Aplet created this plugin intended for photo galleries using Fancybox , which is a Lightbox alternative.
Model-Glue
Episode 1.4 - Model-Glue 3
The RIA Podcast's John Mason interviews Dan Wilson, Doug Hughes and Ezra Parker from the Model-Glue team.
Mura CMS
Launched ColdFusion + Mura CMS Powered Site for Rockford Linear Motion
Steve Withington announces a new Mura-based site he built.
coming soon: Discussion Forums for Mura
A paid forums plugin will be arriving soon from Clever Technology.
OSCMIS
Defense Info Agency Open-Sources Its Web Apps
This InformationWeek article covers how the Defense Information Systems Agency has open sourced its large, government-focused ColdFusion-based project.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
CFMU
Multiple File Uploads in ColdFusion
Dan Vega does a screencast of his multiple file uploader project.
ColdFusion on Wheels
Improving the tutorial: using the same view for multiple actions in ColdFusion on Wheels
Chris Peters shows how to separate view logic so that the form can be used for both add and edit.
So you want to create a CFWheels application? (Part 5)
My Henke continues his series of tutorials based upon Dan Wilson's Model-Glue tutorials.
Mike Henke continues his tutorial series.
CFWheels — Creating a Custom Model
Clarke Bishop posts this tutorial which converts part of chapter 2 from Head First Rails into CFWheels.
ColdSpring
A Beginner's Guide to the ColdSpring Framework for ColdFusion
I post a lengthy and hopefully comprehensive beginner's tutorial for starting with the ColdSpring framework.
Fusebox
Fusebox 5.51 With MVC Tutorial Part 1
Ricardo Parente wrote an extensive introductory tutorial to the Fusebox framework.
Fusebox Production Mode for Live Websites
A simple tip for developing Fusebox sites.
Mura CMS
Searching on Extended Attributes in Mura CMS Using the Feed API
Tony Garcia shows how you cna configure Mura to search on the attributes of "extended objects" that you create using the Class Extension Manager.
Transfer ORM
Transfer ORM Like comparison
Dan Vega shows how to do "like" comparisons in TQL.
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