ColdFusion Open-Source Update - February 10, 2010
Posted on Feb 10, 2010
Four new projects and three updated ones in ColdFusion open source this week. It's a snow day here in Boston. The kids are home from school and I am working from home. The only missing element so far is actual snow. There have been some sprinkles of snow ongoing but so far not even a milimeter of accumulation. Nonetheless, this doesn't stop the local news from covering this like its the storm of the century. Anyway, here's this week's update.
New Releases and Updates
New Project: cfcFaint
cfcFaint: Facial Recognition
Dave Boyer created this project based upon Todd Sharp's blog post that uses the Faint java library to do facial detection on images.
cfcFaint: 0.8
Dave Boyeer added the ability to change the scan window size for face detection.
New Project: Core Framework
Update to 'Core' Framework. Now in GitHub!
Oscar Arevalo shares a lightweight framework he uses for all his development which he says is similar to FW/1 which is now available on GitHub.
New Project: DropIO CFC
DropIO CFC v0.1 Released - drop.io ColdFusion Library
Tom de Manincor created this component to work with the drop.io cloud collaboration tool.
New Project: monkehTweets
monkehTweets ColdFusion Twitter CFC
Matt Gifford created this component library wrapper for the Twitter API.
cfUniForm
cfUniForm v3.5 Released
Matt Quackenbush released this new version of his forms framework including the ability to create your own form file fields as opposed to relying on the built-in file field.
Mango Blog
Version 1.4.3 Released
This release simply fixes some bugs that were introduced in version 1.4.2.
Mura CMS
Mura CMS version 5.2 is live!
Blue River Interactive announces the latest release of their CMS with a ton of new features such as improved front-end editing, a new admin framework and a Mura remote proxy.
Announcements
ColdFusion on Wheels
Submit Your cfwheels.org Feedback on UserVoice
Chris Peters posts that the Wheels team is looking for feedback on their site via UserVoice.
FW/1
Mura 5.2 Released - now with FW/1!
Sean Corfield highlights the fact that the new version of Mura replaced Fusebox with his FW/1 framework.
FW/1 - The "napkin" spec
Sean Corfield shares the original specifications he wrote for his framework.
Mura CMS
Introducing the Mura Scope
The Mura scope is a new simple and easy way to access Mura data for front-end developers.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
ColdFusion on Wheels
Coldfusion on Wheels – our first journey together
Joel lists the positives and negatives of his early experiences using CFWheels with Railo.
Wheels LitePost Learning Contest screencasts
Mike Henke posts two screencasts to help you get started in the Litepost Learning contest.
Select Multiple Values for select() CFWheels
This post shows an undocumented method (or perhaps not clearly documented) feature in CFWheels.
onError Handling for CFWheels and Splash CMS
This post shows how to show friendly error messages and send the errors to administrators using CFWheels and Splash CMS.
FW/1
FW/1 on cfMeetup - recording
Sean Corfield posts the recording URL for his presentation to the online ColdFusion Meetup group.
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Posted By David Boyer / Posted on 02/11/2010 at 12:59 AM