ColdFusion Open-Source Update - December 29, 2008
One new project and nine updates for this last update of the new year. This is the week in which I take back all the crap things I said about Tony Sparano early in the Dolphins' season. Sure, not picking up Matt Ryan was still a boneheaded move, but getting Chad Pennington wasn't as bad as I thought. Congratulations to my Dolphins for not only working their way back from obscurity, but doing it in historic fashion! On to ColdFusion open source stuff...Happy New Year!
New Releases and Updates
New Project: cf_AveryRTF
cf_AveryRTF 1.2 Available
Brian Ghidinelli released this code to generate Avery labels, including support for adding additional labels.
BlogCFC, Lighthouse Pro, CFLib
Quick Updates
Raymond Camden announces mostly small updates to CFLib, BlogCFC and LightHouse Pro.
CFFormProtect
CFFormProtect Compatibility Release
Jacob Munson releases a change to his form spam protection project that makes it compatible with other ColdFusion engines.
ColdBox
ColdBox 2.6.2 is now released, merry x-mas!!
Luis Majano announces this release that includes over 30 "goodies" as well as 33 critical fixes, 4 sample applications and more.
ColdFire
ColdFire 1.2.117.126 (and 1.2.117.117)
Nathan Mische released two updates to ColdFire, one being a bug fix release and the other including some important new features.
Metro
Metro 0.2 Released
Paul Marcotte made a change whereby primary key column names are more flexible in Metro.
Razuna
Razuna 1.1.3 released - even more power to the open source digital asset mana...
This version of Razuna includes full MySQL support along with general improvements and bug fixes.
Soundings
Soundings 3 - Preview and Live Demo
Ray Camden releases the third full version of his survey application including support for new types of users, templates, embedded surveys, improved reporting and more.
Announcements
CFFormProtect
Akismet learns, Captcha doesn't
Jake Munson discusses how Askimet, which is integrated with his CFFormProtect, can learn from its misses, making it a better tool than CAPTCHA for long term form spam prevention.
ColdBox
ColdBox 2.6.2 Making Code Deploys Easier!
ColdBox 2.6.2 adds a deploy interceptor designed to make it easier to do deploys to a server or cluster of servers.
ColdFire
ColdFire Updated/Call for Help
Raymond Camden puts out the call for helping Nathan Mische add AMF support into ColdFire.
JSONUtil
JSONUtil Now in RIAForge SVN
Nathan Mische posted his JSON serialization/deserialization project into Subversion at RIAForge.
Mango Blog
Lightbox & Related Entries Mango Plugins Updated
Adam "King Mango" Tuttle updates his Lightbox and related entry plugins for Mango Blog.
Model-Glue
Google sitemap creator for Model-Glue apps
Andy Jarrett releases this Google sitemap generator for Model-Glue applications.
Sava CMS
Has It Been 8 Months Already?
Sean Schroeder posts about the past 8 months since Sava was open-sourced, some of the changes made and the direction going forward.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
ColdExt
Using Ext JS 2.2 Ajax in CF - Part 1 - Coldext plus Combo box Id and Value
Kevin Roche offers this tutorial on the ColdExt project by Juston Carter.
ColdFire
Debugging Flex with ColdFire
Nathan Mische shows how to cature ColdFusion debugging for working on ColdFusion and Flex applications.
Fusebox
Fusebox 101: Reload fusebox URL
Nick Tong posts the URL he uses to reload a Fuebox application.
General (ORM/Persistence)
DAL / Persistence Layer Comparisons
Steve Bryant compares a handful of projects that handle persistence/data access in a feature chart.
Mango Blog
Properly Accessing Resource Files in a Mango Plugin
Adam "King Mango" Tuttle shows how and where to properly put resource and asset files with a Mango plugin.
Ask a Grokker: Creating a Lightbox Slideshow in Mango
Adam "King Mango" Tuttle shows how to add a Lightbox slideshow using his plugin for Mango Blog.
Metro
Using Metro - Creating Concrete Services and Gateways
Paul Marcotte posts this demo about integrating Metro's simple user, role and permission model.
Transfer
Transfer and IBO
John Whish shows how he uses Peter Bell's iterating business object" (IBO) with Transfer.
Transfer Caching and Performance Features
Raymond Camden does a roundup of the various caching and performance tuning features built into Transfer.
Handling Multiple Encrypted Fields in a Transfer Decorator
Joshua Curtiss shows how to use onMissingMethod to handle multiple fields that require encryption in a Transfer decorator.
