ColdFusion Open-Source Update - January 5, 2009

Two new projects and five updates this first week of 2009. Now that the football season is officially over for me and the new year is here, I want to lay out some goals for this year...on this blog anyway. Firstly, I do intend to continue doing these updates but my goal is to come up with at least one other post per week this year (many weeks in 2008, I only posted this update). Secondly, I am going to fix the open-source list in IE and finally update the project list that has been languishing for far too long. That's it...what? You wanted something more ambitious so you could watch me fail?

New Releases and Updates

New Project: cfSpec
cfSpec: Behaviour-Driven Development for ColdFusion
Ron Hopper announces this new project modeled after rSpec for Ruby and is a behavior-driven unit testing framework.

New Project: Cli.gs ColdFusion Wrapper
Initial Release
Cli.gs is a URL shortening service and Birgit Pauli-Haack has created this component to implement its API.

CFLib
Ratings added to CFLib
Ray Camden announces that CFLib, which once had a ratings system, now has one again.

Mach-II
Mach-II 1.6 RC2 Released - We're Almost There!
Peter Farrell announces the latest release candidate that includes improvements based upon two change tickets.

MailerCFC
Mailer.cfc 1.8 Released
Steve Bryant updates his email notice component to include reply-to and sender properties.

Metro
Metro 0.3 Released
The latet version of Metro by Paul Marcotte features an audit package, getByProperty() support in the service and gateway and more.

Project Tracker
Version 2.4.1 out already
This is a bug fix release for the 2.4 version recently released.

Version 2.4 Released - lots of goodies!
Joe Danziger updates his project management tool including time-tracking, automated installation and much more.

Announcements

Fusebox
Fusebox back under development
Adam Haskell is getting back to new work on Fusebox after taking some time off from coding following the last release.

Mach-II
Mach-II Updates
Matt Woodward gives some things coming soon in this new year from Team Mach-II.

Mango Blog
Lightbox Mango Plugin updated again
Adam "King Mango" Tuttle updates his Lightbox plugin which includes the latest version of Lightbox and fixes an issue with the close button.

Razuna
When do you need a Digital Asset Management System?
Six Signs posts about the reasons one would require a DAM system.

RIAForge
RIAForge Milestone
Ray Camden announces that RIAForge is at 600 projects.

RocketFM
RocketFM Project on RIAForge
Dan Vega posts the Flex and ColdFusion tutorial project on RIAForge with code to come soon. The project is a file manager.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

cfSpec
cfSpec - Behavior-Driven Development for ColdFusion
Sean Corfield explains the reasoning behind behavior-driven testing and how it is implemented in the new cfSpec project.

ColdBox
ColdBox 2.6.2 Bug: Log File Paths
Brad Wood explains an issue he encountered in the recent ColdBox update.

Fusebox
Back in the Fusebox groove
Kay Smoljak writes about her initial experiences getting back into Fusebox version 5.5 after a short hiatus.

Transfer
Generating a Decrypted Memento for a Transfer Decorator
Joshua Curtiss follows up last week's post with how to decrypt the data when using getMemento().