ColdFusion Open-Source Update - January 12, 2010
Posted on Jan 12, 2010
Five new projects and two updates in ColdFusion open source this week. Personally, I am feeling finally caught up having finished new articles for the Adobe Edge and the Adobe Developer Center this morning. The ADC article should be interesting as it will include a new open source project to hopefully make it easy for anyone who built a ColdFusion Builder extension to make that extension "auto-update." Nonetheless, more on that topic later when the article comes out... let's get to this week's updates.
New Releases and Updates
New Project: CFC2UML
Initial Release
This new ColdFusion Builder extension by Marco Simic will translate CFC metadata into XMI schema 2.1 that can be imported into any UML modeling tool that supports that.
New Project: cfcDoc
Initial Release
This is not a new project, but it is newly open sourced thanks to creator Phil Cruz. This project generates API documentation in HTML and PDF.
New Project: cfgithub
Initial Release
John Bland II has created this new library for connecting to Github via ColdFusion.
New Project: CFTurbine
What is CFTurbine
Created by Anang Phatak, this project bills itself as a prototyping engine that functions similar to scaffolding in Rails.
New Project: SQLiteCFC
Initial Release
Shawn Grigson created this project for creating and querying SQLite databases without a DSN.
Lightwire
Critical LightWire Error in Setter Injection for Transients
Peter Bell fixed the bug found by Micky Dionosio in a prior post though it apparently does not apply to the version included with ColdBox.
Portcullis
Portcullis 2.0 released
John Mason makes some improvements and corrects some issues on his SQL-injection/XSS attacks including making filters context aware and the ability to dynamically alter settings.
Announcements
ColdBox
New ColdBox Alliance Partner: B-Line Express
The B-line digital solution firm has joined the ColdBox alliance partner program.
Mango Blog
Better Page Anchors with Anchor Slider Plugin
Mark Aplet created another Mango Blog plugin that uses jQuery to slide the page when clicking an anchor link.
Anchor Fade: Fade Link Colors using JQuery
Mark Aplet released his on-billionth Mango plugin, this one is a link fading utility.
Model-Glue
Model Glue Caching patch
Andrea Campolonghi wrote a patch that will allow Model-Glue to cache views based on declarations in a single include XML file.
Mura CMS
cfwheels-dbmigrate
This plugin for ColdFusion on Wheels adds migrations similar to Rails active record migrations.
Come watch the Mura Show as we enable Carehart.org under Mura CMS
Charlie Arehart discusses how his site will be being completely rebuilt in Mura as part of the Mura Show weekly online user group.
Razuna
Wordpress & Razuna: Introducing the Razuna Wordpress Plugin
SixSigns announces a plugin for Wordpress that allows you to choose Razuna assets without needing to import them.
Wordpress & Razuna: Update Wordpress Plugin for Wordpress 2.8 and Wordpress MU support
This plugin update adds Wordpress 2.8 and Wordpress MU compatibility.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
BlogCFC
Adding Highslide JS to BlogCFC
Akbarsair shows how to add this JavaScript image gallery to BlogCFC.
CFFM
Speeding up cffm 1.1x
Jules Gravinese shows a couple of simple changes that can speed up the CFFM file manager.
ColdFusion on Wheels
Upcoming (and previous) Wheels Presentations
Mike Henke posts about some upcoming presentations as well as links to recordings of prior presentations.
ColdSpring
Using a ColdSpring Post Processor to add "Static" Domain Classes
Tony Nelson wrote a ColdSpring post-processor to add static methods similar to Grails and Rails.
FarCry
FarCry Dev Camp Podcast
Geoff Bowers posts a series of podcast recordings discussing the FarCry framework from the recent FarCry Dev Camp.
Fusebox
Implicit Blocks in Fusebox 5.5.1
Barney Boisvert modified the core of Fusebox to allow you to omit the true tag block from if blocks when there is no false (as in prior versions of Fusebox).
FW/1
Upcoming FW/1 Presentations!
Sean Corfield and others will likely be presenting FW/1 at a conference or user group near you.
Lightwire
Fundamental Lightwire Bug?
Micky Dionosio writes about an issue he has uncovered with dependencies within transients that he feels is too core to the engine to either a) have not been caught yet or b) not be related to something misconfigured.
Mach-II
How to utilise the Mach-II bootstrapper?
David Cooke has a question on how to integrate the Application.cfc bootstrapper into his current architecture.
Mura CMS
How to dynamically create Extended Attributes/SubTypes
The Mura team at Blue River shows how to programatically create a subtype and add attributes.
Customizing Model-Glue by Overriding Framework Components
Bob Silverberg shows how to use a new feature in Model-Glue 3 that allows you to change the default behavior of the framework.
Extending Mura CMS with Plugins - The Story Continues
Bob Silverberg explains why his recent series has languished and that it will pick back up soon.
Extending Mura CMS with Plugins - Part III - Configurable Settings
Bob Silverberg continues his series by showing how you can make the plugin configurable by the Mura administrator.
Extending Mura CMS with Plugins - Part IV - Using Extended Attributes
Bob Silverberg's next post in his ongoing series focuses on making the plugin configurable by the Mura administrator, but in this case on a page-by-page basis.
Mura Show - Converting carehart.org to Mura CMS
The first in a series of episodes devoted to converting Charlie Arehart's site to Mura CMS.
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