ColdFusion Open-Source Update - December 2, 2009

Two new ColdFusion open source projects and three updates this week. It appears that even turkey and stuffing cannot get in the way of ColdFusion developers releasing open source projects. Oh, and on an unrelated note, yes, I know my Dolphins lost to the Bills, the AFC East's token high school football team. Thankfully I still have my Hurricanes who pulled off a great season despite almost universally low expectations. Anyway, back on topic.

New Releases and Updates

New Project: dbfrp
Initial Release
Allan McCollough built this project that allows you to perform a text find and replace on database fields.

New Project: ppIPN
PayPal IPN Coldfusion CFC
Doug Boude wraps Paypal's Instant Payment Notification process into a couple of reusable components.

Mach-II
Mach-II 1.8 Release Candidate Available
Mach-II 1.8 includes a bindable form library, HTML helpers and more. We have started using Mach-II in my office and my coworkers have been quickly becoming believers because the features in 1.8 are awesome.

MXUnit
MXUnit 1.0.8 Released
This release fixes some bugs but also adds a good number of new features including new data-driven capabilities.

Razuna
Razuna 1.3 and Razuna Desktop 1.1 available
This version of Razuna includes MS SQL support, user-defined extensions and IE8 compatibility fixes along with a long list of other new features and improvements.

Announcements

CFFormProtect
Alternate version of CFFormProtect
Dan Wilson reworked much of the code for Jake Munson's form spam protection project which is being released as an alternate version rather than rolled into the core at the moment.

ColdBox
The launch of ForgeBox!
Luis Majano discusses his new community for sharing ColdBox related applications.

Mango Blog
New Theme: Vigilance
Laura Arguello posts about a new free theme by Benedict Lowndes.

Transfer
Sneak Peak: Transfer's new Plug-able Cache
Mark Mandel discusses the new pluggable cache functionality, which uses EHCache by default, that Brian Ghidinelli blogged last week.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

CFGroovy
Running Javascript In ColdFusion With CFGroovy And Rhino
Ben Nadel uses Barney Boisvert's CFGroovy project to run server-side JavaScript.

Running Javascript And jQuery In ColdFusion With CFGroovy And Rhino
Ben Nadel follows up his prior post, this time with a more complicated example of running jQuery on the server side using CFGroovy.

ColdBox
After moving from Modelglue to Coldbox, suddenly it's fun again
Zac Spitzer says that ColdBox has made CF fun again.

ColdFusion on Wheels
CFWheels - Rediscovering beauty in CF Code
Indiver Nagpal explains why ColdFusion on Wheels has gotten him excited about CF again.

Search CFWheels Documentation
Indiver Nagpal created a Google custom search for the CFWheels docs since the feature is missing.

ColdSpring
An Asynchronous AOP Advice Example
Paul Marcotte creates an AsynchronousAroundAdvice to set it and forget it method calls using cfthread for ColdSpring.

FW/1
Framework One
Raymond Camden takes a first look at Sean Corfield's Framework One and shares his experiences.

Simple example of processing a form in FW/1
Raymond Camden continues his examination of Sean Corfield's Framework One (FW/1) by giving an example of handling a standard HTML form submission.

MightyMock
A First Look at MightyMock
John Whish takes a look at the Bill Shelton's mocking application.

MockBox
ColdFusion unit testing and using MockBox
Andrew Scott shows you how to get started with Luis Majano's MockBox.