ColdFusion Open-Source Update - August 4, 2008

Four new projects and five updates this week. I thought of starting a weekly "Who's Joining BroadChoice" update but I don't know if I have the time to keep up. Apparently Joe is advocating they build everything with his POC of the CFGoto tag for improved performance! I think that is brilliant and can't wait for it to be in ColdFusion 9.

New Releases and Updates

New Project: CFC_Nuke
Initial Release
Scott Stewart has started a complete rebuild of prior CF Nuke project.

New Project: cfExcelProxy
cfExcelProxy Launched
This project by Francois Levesque implements POI for working with Excel files similar to Ben Nadel's project.

New Project: CFMU
ColdFusion MultiUploader (CFMU)
Dan Vega released a multiple file uploader built with ColdFusion and Flex.

CFMU File Filters
Dan Vega updated his multi-file uploader to allow for filtering of specific file types.

CFMU 2 quick updates
Dan Vega added a maximum file size and the ability to remove multiple files to his multi-file uploader.

New Project: Gazoo
Coldfusion Random Data Generator (Gazoo 1.0)
David Buhler created this project to generate data to test aainst.

BlogCFC
BlogCFC 5.9.1 Released
This update from Ray Camden includes a number of new features such as the ability to subscribe without commenting, deleting comments from email and more.

MXUnit
MXUnit 1.0.1 is now available!
The new version includes some var scope fixes and injectMethod for simple mocking.

POIUtility.cfc
POI Utility Now Supports Formulas And Cell Aliasing In Custom Tags
Ben Nadel added some new features to his POI project.

Creating Excel Files Faster With ColdFusion And POI Custom Tag Updates
Ben Nadel released some performance and compatibility issues.

Transfer
Transfer 1.1 Release Candidate
Mark Mandel releases a RC of his ORM that includes, for one, a 25% performance increase in object loading and much more.

WhosOnCFC
WhosOnCFC 2.2.1 Released to RIAForge
Shane Zehnder released a new version of his project including a security patch.

Announcements

ColdBox
Coldbox and the CFEclipse Frameworks Explorer
Luis discusses briefly Marc Esher's post.

Two new members to the ColdBox Team: Tom de Manincor and Ernst van der Linden
Luis added two new members to the ColdBox team.

Some ColdBox Forums Data Lost!
Due to a failed RAID system, Luis lost some data from the forums but thankfully it wasn't much.

ColdBox Eclipse Plugins Updated
What the title says.

ColdBox Training Early Bird Extended
The early bird price has been extended until August 31.

ColdSpring
BeanInjector Patch from Paul Marcotte
Brian Kotek added a patch to his bean utilities for ColdSpring.

DataMgr
Galleon on DataMgr
Steve Bryant is reworking Galleon as an example application for DataMgr.

Mach-II
Using Mach-II? Let us know!
Help the Mach-II project by letting them share and promote projects and sites built with the framework.

WhosOnCFC
Better Late than Never?
Shane Zehdner posted documentation for his project.

I Forgot My Line...
Shane discusses an issue with user authentication.

Google-Analytics and WhosOnCFC
Shane Zehnder discusses an issue related to Google Analytics and a workaround.

A Few Thoughts
Shane talks about a potential security issue and is fixing it.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

ColdBox
Coldbox and the CFEclipse Frameworks explorer
Marc Esher shows how to activate ColdBox for the CFEclipse frameworks explorer that isn't active by default.

Implicit Views in ColdBox (inspired by CFWheels)
Tony Garcia shows how to get implicit views based upon convention similar to ColdFusion on Wheels in ColdBox.

ColdSpring
ColdSpring - Using the Parent attribute to specify configuration settings like DSN
This tutorial shows how to use the undocumented parent attribute on a bean.

Best Practice: Separate App config from Framework Config
Adam Tuttle shows how to separate portions of your configuration XML.

FarCry
Latest Firefox breaks FarCry 3 context menu
If you are still running FarCry 3, FireFox 3 will make the webtop context menu options stop working.

General (Frameworks)
Sun JVM 1.6 Heap Memory Behavior with ColdFusion Frameworks
Mike Brunt discusses performance in frameworks related to JVM versions and the reasons behind it.

JavaLoader
How to install POI on ColdFusion 8 using JavaLoader.cfc
An example for using loading POI with Mark Mandel's JavaLoader.

Transfer
Connect Recording: Mark Mandel on Introduction to Building Applications with Transfer ORM
A connect recording of Mark Mandel's presentation to the Nashville CFUG.

onTap framework version 3.2 was also released over the weekend along with an updated plugin manager (3.2), member plugin (3.2) and a DataFaucet update (which really was just minor tweaks to the onTap installer). :)

They're all on riaforge. http://ontap.riaforge.org or view my projects to see all the updates.

This release is a real milestone. It represents a realization of a long-time goal for me of an SOA approach to ColdFusion... I just didn't know that's what I was working toward until recently - hadn't heard the term and then hadn't read any definitions until recently.

I'm also actively requesting more community contribution to these projects. I know you've been working on that series of articles about OS projects and mentioned building the community, which I'm apparently not very good at. :P Thanks for the articles btw. Looking forward to the remaining 2.

BlogCFC 5.9.1 also supports podcasting, with a few things I contributed.

CFConversations episode 10 has an interview with Gert Franz of Railo, where he talks about Railo going open source, among other things.

Sure, I'll shoot you an email or something when I have announcements. Thanks for maintaining the OS list -- I imagine it takes a lot of your time. And is probably relatively thankless. You probably really deserve more than just a "thank you" for doing it tho. :)