ColdFusion Open-Source Update - January 4, 2010
Five new projects and five updates this month. This post was originally intended for the week of December 21st but due to holiday travel and a backlog of article deadlines that I have for various publications, I had to postpone it. So now we have a monster update covering close to 40 posts about ColdFusion open source projects. In the meantime, my blog officially became 5 years old (on January 1st to be exact). Anyone who runs a blog knows how tough it can be to keep up consistent content for 5 years. While I haven't always been as consistent as I'd like to be (this is my 665th post in 5 years), this weekly post, which I have been doing for nearly 4 years, hadn't taken more than a week break until this month. Hopefully, I will have the time and energy to keep it going for 4 more years. Thanks to everyone for reading!
New Releases and Updates
New Project: cfRhino
Initial Release
This new project by Nick Harvey is another MVC framework for ColdFusion that is event-based and extensible.
New Project: easyImages
Best of CF9: easyImages
Raymond Camden posts a review by Francisco Paulino-Tofinha about Simon Romanski's EasyImages entry which is now available as a project on RIAForge (http://easyimages.riaforge.org/) which is a project to simplify managing images for your site through a central repository.
New Project: FixedFileReader
CF: Parsing Complex Fixed (Flat) Files
Bilal created a new project, available at RIAForge, to help with parsing complex flat file data.
New Project: Iterator
Iterator on RIAForge, and Updates to FormUtils and ColdSpring Utils
Brian Kotek created an iterator project so that you can iterate over queries, lists, structures and arrays all in the same manner. He also updated the DynamicXMLBeanFactory that is part of his ColdSpring Utils and updated his FormUtils project.
New Project: jTidy CFC
jTidy cfc (stand alone and CFWheels plugin)
Mike Henke modified the FarCry jTidy cfc for cleaning up HTML and also created a ColdFusion on Wheels plugin for it.
ColdFISH
ColdFISH 3.0 Alpha Released
Jason Delmore updates his code highlighting project that is the default for BlogCFC and adds a number of nice new features including XML configuration and keyword formatting for CFML, CFSCRIPT, ActionScript, and SQL.
FW/1
FW/1 1.0 released for 2010
Now that the reference manual is complete, Sean Corfield is ready to announce the 1.0 release of his framework.
Mach-II
Mach-II Simplicity (1.8) RC2 Released!
Peter Farrell announces the second, and likely final, release candidate for Mach-II 1.8 which fixes some user reported edge case issues.
MXUnit
MXUnit Eclipse Plugin Updated
Marc Esher announces a new version of the MXunit Eclipse plugin that includes a number of bug fixes.
MXUnit Eclipse Plugin 1.2 Released
Marc Esher writes that the goal of this plugin simplify configuration for projects.
RIAForge
RIAForge Update - SVN Files/Changelists http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index....
Raymond Camden restored the ability to browse SVN repositories within RIAForge and SVN post-commit support is coming soon.
Announcements
Apptacular
Apptacular ColdFusion Builder Extension - Unit Tests
Another video from Terry Ryan about his upcoming ColdFusion Builder extension, this one showing how it will generate MXUnit unit tests for the code it creates.
Apptacular Plans
Terry Ryan shares his checklist on what testing is required before he can release his extension.
Apptacular ColdFusion Builder Extension - Working with Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder
Terry Ryan offers another sneak peak at his application generation extension for ColdFusion Builder showing how you can integrate the generated services with Flash Builder 4's Data/Services panel.
ColdBox
Cool ColdBox Book Review!
Luis Majano highlights a nicely positive review of his new book on Amazon.
ColdFusion on Wheels
Wheels Added to CFML Framework Generator for Eclipse
Chris Peters notes that ColdFusion on Wheels has been added to Robert Burns' framework skeleton generator.
Fusebox
Fusebox Scaffolder Alpha 3
Kevin Roche updated his Fusebox scaffolder.
FW/1
FW/1 Reference Manual completed
Sean Corfield posts that the reference manual documentation for his FW/1 framework is complete.
Mango Blog
Scribe 1.3
Adam Tuttle updates his subscription plugin for Mango Blog and adds the ability to compose and send an HTML email to your subscribers.
Unit PNG Fix
Mark Aplet wrote another Mango Blog plugin that adds a IE6 PNG fix to your blog.
Juitter Plugin For Mango Blog
Mark Aplet has released yet another Mango Blog plugin, this one integrating Juitter for Twitter integration in your sidebar.
SyntaxHighlighter Plugin
Laura Arguello notes that Tony Garcia updated his syntax highlighter plugin and some of the benefits it offers over the bundled one.
Automatic Upgrade to 1.4.1 Released
Laura Arguello posts that this update to Mango Blog was added to the automatic upgrade system and you'll be notified to download it.
Model-Glue
New Model-Glue FAQ Available
Dan Wilson announces a new FAQ section has been created and organized by topical sections.
MG 3.2 Feature Sneak Peak - CF9 ORM Scaffolding
Bob Silverberg and Dennis Clark put together support for CF9 Hibernate ORM in Model-Glue which you can currently pull via SVN.
New Online Model-Glue 3 Training Course
Dan Wilson announces that besides the revamped quickstart, an online, hands-on training course for Model-Glue was added to the documentation.
Mura CMS
Mura Plugin for Embedding Videos from YouTube (and others)
Tony Garcia created this Mura plugin to embed videos from YouTube, Yahoo, Vimeo and Metacafe.
MXUnit, Model-Glue, ValidateThis!
New Stuff for MXUnit, Model-Glue and ValidateThis on the Horizon
Bob Silverberg has been one extremely busy dude, contributing heavily to MXUnit and MightyMock as well as Model-Glue and continuing to work on his own validation framework ValidateThis!
RbMan, BytespringCMS
RbMan and BytespringCMS moved to RiaForge
Jason Sheedy has decided to move hosting of his resource bundle and CMS projects over to RIAForge.
SweetTweets
Are TweetBacks Dead?
Adam Tuttle wonders if its even worth keeping up his Tweetback Mango plugin and separate component since Twitter's move from tinyURL to bit.ly has made tweetbacks essentially useless.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
BlogCFC
Changing the jQuery location for BlogCFC
Andy Jarrett shows how to modify BlogCFC to use Google's Ajax API.
Sometimes it's the small mistakes...
Raymond Camden shares a common and easy-to-make mistake that was causing performance issues on BlogCFC.
ColdBox
Quick ColdBox / i18n tip
Sean Corfield shows how to call getResource() for a resource bundle translation inside a custom tag called from a view.
ColdFusion on Wheels
CFWheels and ORM
Akbarsait shows how to use the ORM built into the ColdFusion on Wheels framework.
ColdSpring
Fun with ColdSpring Post Processors
Tony Nelson wrote a very interesting component to eliminate the need for redundant bean definitions in your ColdSpring configuration.
Hyrule
Best of CF9: Hyrule
Raymond Camden gives a positive review of Dan Vega's Hyrule project for his Best of CF9 contest.
Lightwire, ColdSpring
Lightwire versus Coldspring
Mike Chandler found that Lightwire better handled transient objects that ColdSpring in his tests - which is in line with the differing intents of the projects.
Mango Blog
Error logs are exposed in Mango Blog
John Mason writes that the error logs for Mango Blog are public, however Laura clarifies that these are only related to a plugin that fails and offers some future solutions.
