Coldfusion Open Source Update - August 4, 2010
Posted on Aug 04, 2010
Six new projects, four updated ones and a ton of announcement, tutorials and presentations this week in ColdFusion open source. Its nice to be back from CFUnited (though only to find out I am on an unplanned two week unpaid vacation before starting at Adobe). One of the things that came up during Charlie Arehart's excellent second day keynote focused on the ColdFusion Community was my open source list. There is some confusion I think since I started the list before I started the update blog post. However, I noted to Charlie and others that essentially the list is dead and if I ever got around to updating my site design (its been 90% done for many months) it would be officially gone. The number of projects outgrew the usefulness of the list format in my opinion. However, this weekly update is alive and well as it has been for more than a few years.
New Releases and Updates
New Project: Apptacular
Get Apptacular
Terry Ryan makes his Apptacular application generation extension for ColdFusion Builder available in an interim location while he awaits its release on Adobe Labs.
New Project: CFUnited Mobile Application
cfumobile application on riaforge
Dan Vega released the source code for the mobile application he built for viewing CFUnited sessions and details.
New Project: Filex
Coldfusion / Flex File Manager - Free Download
Janusz Buda released the ColdFusion source code (and swf) for his file management application.
New Project: JImage
Initial Release
Khurram Ali created this implementation of the Java Advanced Image Library for image manipulation.
New Project: TxtLocal CFC
Initial Release
Red Giraffes wrote this component to work with the TxtLocal service to check balance, send SMS and inject users into a contact list.
New Project: Warden
Initial Release
Steve Brownlee wrote this project to help programmers avoid hard-coding user privileges into their code. Instead you modify an XML configuration that will define what actions certain users are allowed to perform.
Lighthouse Pro
Nice Lighthouse Pro update
Along with some bug fixes and other improvements, Raymond Camden added the ability to set defaults for new issues on a project.
Mach-II
Dashboard 1.1 RC1 Available for Mach-II 1.8.0+
Peter Farrell announces a new version of the Mach-II dashboard which, among other things, supports reloading individual listeners, plugins and properties without reloading the entire application.
Razuna
Razuna 1.4 Preview Release 2 available
The second release candidate of Six Signs' Razuna digital asset management system is available including a new uploader and refined startup wizard.
Announcements
Ant4CF
Ant4CF’s Documentation and Ant 1.8
Doug Hughes notes that he is aware of some issues with using Ant4CF and ANT 1.8 and also notes some easy workarounds if you are having trouble getting the project working.
Apptacular
1 Day of Apptacular
Terrence Ryan reminds users that Apptacular, and the ORM features it uses, require tables with primary keys.
CFAM
Announcing CFAM - ColdFusion Administrator Mobile
Raymond Camden and Todd Sharp finally announce the project they've been hinting about which is a mobile optimized version of the ColdFusion administrator. Sadly, it is not yet ready for a release.
ColdFusion on Wheels
Experimenting with flashMessages() in ColdFusion on Wheels
Chris Peters discusses the view helper coming in version 1.1 for working with Flash.
Mango Blog
Simple Rating Plugin
Laura Arguello created a Mango Blog plugin for a simple star rating for blog posts.
SwfObject Mango Plugin Released
Andrea Campolonghi created this plugin to load the swfObject library within Mango.
Mura CMS
Meld Forums v2 ... what to expect
Meld Solutions talks about some significant changes coming in Meld Forums v2 which will be a plugin for Mura.
New Plugin for Mura CMS: MuraMetaGenerator
Steve Withington released another Mura plugin that will automatically generate meta keywords and descriptions for your pages.
Mura Tools Released!
Steve Good released his Mura Tools project which speeds up developing for Mura CMS and supports both ColdFusion Builder and CFEclipse.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
ColdFusion on Wheels
CFUnited 2010 on Wheels
Chris Peters discusses the ColdFusion on Wheels presence at CFUnited including Mike Henke's presentation.
Framework One
Framework One and .cfm requests
Andy Jarrett shows how to use the undhandledPaths setting in FW/1.
FW/1 – Framework One Cheat Sheet
Matt Jones posts a one page cheat sheet for Sean Corfield's framework that you can download.
Fusebox
FuseboxFramework.com Domains Are Going Away Soon...
Peter Farrell uses the expiring of some domains used by the short-lived FuseNG fork to discuss the current status of the Fusebox framework.
General (Frameworks)
My CFUnited Code and What Lesson I Learned
Scott Stroz suffered what all of us who speak have suffered at some point...sample code fail...but his example of how you can post the same model to many frameworks was still a good one.
Mach-II
Mach-II is (still) awesome
Steve Rittler of CounterMarch Systems gives a strong testimonial for Mach-II.
Mango Blog
Mango Blog and Category Feeds
Jonah Chanticleer, in response to Raymond Camden's CFBloggers guidelines post, shows how Mango Blog supports category feeds.
Mango API - How to Create a Post
Justin Scott offers this tutorial on using the Mango API to create a new post.
Comments
Posted By Shaguf Mohtisham / Posted on 08/24/2010 at 1:58 AM