ColdFusion Open-Source Update - February 22, 2010
Posted on Feb 22, 2010
Five new releases and five updates this week in ColdFusion open source. Hello, remember me? I am the ColdFusion open source update that has been lacking in your life the past couple weeks or more. Did you miss me? Well, I am here in Miami basking in the warmth but nonetheless I saved up some really good stuff this week including the impressive looking cfcommons project.
New Releases and Updates
New Project: cfCalais
cfCalais – A Coldfusion tag to easily create semantic data
Jon Dowdle created this custom tag to return semantic data from from the Open Calais service by Thompson Reuters.
New Project: ColdFusion Commons Project
ColdFusion Commons Project Released
Micky Dionisio announces this ambitious new project that includes modules for Context (application platform), Reflection, AOP, Templating, Faceplait (layout manager), HTTP and Chimera (a code coverage tool).
New Project: Hasher Form
Initial Release
David Long released this simple form that will hash text in whatever format you choose.
New Project: Merlin Manager CFCs
Merlin Manager 1.0.1 is now available
John Mason has publicly released his ColdFusion monitoring and management application. While the AIR application is not open source, the component library it uses is.
New Project: Open Government Dashboard
Ben Forta on Open Government Dashboards
Fig Leaf Software has made their Open Government Dashboard sample application available. Ben Forta presented this to an online audience recently.
New Project: Spotify MetaData API
Initital Release
Matt Gifford released this component to work with the Spotify API.
New Project: Twilio Library
Initial Release
Jason Fill released this component that wraps Twilio's SMS and voice service API's.
New Project: YUICompressor CFC
YUICompressor CFC v0.1 Released
Tom de Manincor released this component to minify your CSS and JavaScript.
ColdFusion on Wheels
ColdFusion on Wheels 1.0.1 Maintenance Release
Chris Peters announces this maintenance release that fixes some 1.0 bugs.
ColdFusion on Wheels 1.0.2 Maintenance Release
Peter Amiri posts about this release which doesn't have new features but fixes some critical bugs contained in 1.0.1.
ColdFusion Twitter Lib
ColdFusion Twitter Lib updated
Pedro Claudio added a number of new methods to his Twitter API component.
Mach-II
Mach-II Simplicity (1.8) Released
Peter Farrell announces that the stable release of Mach-II 1.8 is officially available. Check out this post for a list of new features.
SweetTweets
SweetTweets 2: Attack of the URL Shorteners
Adam Tuttle has brought back his TweetBack component and Mango plugin thanks in part to a new service he was informed about by Ray Camden.
ValidateThis!
ValidateThis 0.92 - Easier to Extend, More Object Support, and more
Bob Silvervberg announces a new version of his validation framework including some contributions from Adam Drew and John Whish.
ValidateThis 0.91 - Now with Groovy and ColdFusion on Wheels Support
Bob Silverberg announces a new version of his validation framework that can be used to validate Grooby objects and ColdFusion on Wheels objects.
Announcements
ColdBox
CFObjective ColdBox Training, get it while it is hot!
Luis Majano gives details on the ColdBox pre-conference training. Unfortunately by the time this post is up, the early bird will have passed but registration is still possible.
FW/1
CF9 CHF1 Released
Sean Corfield notes that the cumulative hot fix for ColdFusion 9 may include a bug fix that affects FW/1.
Mango Blog
OpenSearch
Pritesh Patel has created a Mango plugin that will automatically add your site to the search bar list in the browser.
Higher Ground Mango blog theme - version 1.3
John Sieber updates his Mango Blog theme with pod support.
ShareOnWeb
This plugin by Pritesh Patel allows users to share a post via AddThis.
Model-Glue
Get Hands-On Model Glue Training in April
Dan Wilson announces the cf.Objective() pre-conference training for Model-Glue.
Mura CMS
And the Mura Plugin Throwdown Winner is...
Tony Garcia got first place and Megan Garrison second in this contest.
New FW/1 Plugin
The FW/1 plugin allows you to easily incorporate an existing FW/1 application into Mura and is available at the Mura App Store.
Awesome! I Won the Mura Plugin ColdFusion Throwdown!
Tony Garcia, of my Boston CFUG, won the Mura Plugin Throwdown with his embed video plugin.
MXUnit
CHF Warning - Impacts MXUnit
Warning - Impacts MXUnit
Raymond Camden shows both how a local scope change in the new cumulative hot fix for ColdFusion 9 affects MXUnit and how to fix it.
Razuna
New in Razuna: Redesigned quick search and explorer section
SixSigns discusses some redesigned elements in Razuna and why they chose to redesign them.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
cfcommons
cfcommons Reflection API
Micky Dionisio covers what reflection is, how cfcommons implements this and how it is used in their dependency injection library.
cfUniForm
cfUniForm - Right-Aligned Labels and No Asterisk
Matt Quackenbush shows how to override the default CSS in his CFUniForm library.
Integrating cfUniForm and ValidateThis
Matt Quackenbush shows the one gotcha when integrating ValidateThis! with cfUniForm.
ColdFusion on Wheels
Trying out the CFWheels framework
Ryan documents his initial experiences working with the ColdFusion on Wheels framework.
General (Frameworks)
Front Controllers Should NOT Extend Application.cfc
Barney Boisvert doesn't think that a framework, specifically he calls out FW/1, extending application CFC is a good idea.
LightWire
Lightwire XML placeholder bug
John Whish thinks he may have found a bug in Lightwire when configured with XML.
Mach-II
Using JavaLoader in Mach-II
This tutorial shows how to incorporate JavaLoader in Mach-II via a custom property.
Mura CMS
Using the Mura FW/1 Connector Plugin
Bob Silverberg offers this tutorial of the Mura FW/1 plugin that he helped developed.
Extending Mura CMS with Plugins - Part V - Handling Plugin Errors
Bob Silverberg shows how to create an onError() method in your plugin handler to catch errors.
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