ColdFusion Open Source Update - July 16, 2010
Posted on Jul 16, 2010
Six new projects and seven updates in ColdFusion open source this week. Clearly this was a busy week. I think open source developers must have heard about my vacation next week and wanted to make sure I didn't forget about them whilst sunbathing in Miami or playing slots in Vegas. Perhaps it has more to do with the final CFUnited being right around the corner...nah, it's definitely about my vacation.
New Releases and Updates
New Project: CF CheddarGetter
Initial Release
Will wrote this wrapper to work with the CheddarGetter recurring billing system.
New Project: cfMud
cfMud is now up at GitHub
Shane Zehnder created this proof of concept MUD interface using ColdFusion and jQuery.
New Project: cfPaymo
Initial Release
Reinhart Jung wrote this wrapper for the Paymo time tracking and invoicing system.
New Project: DaisyDiff.cfc
Initial Release
David Hammond released this wrapper for the DaisyDiff service that lets you compare two strings.
New Project: foursquareCFC
Initial Release
Andy Matthews released this component wrapper for the FourSquare API.
New Project: Lyric Search ColdFusion Wrapper
Lyric Search ColdFusion Wrapper
Matt Gifford wrote this component wrapper for the Lyric Search API to get song lyrics.
CFTracker
CfTracker 2.0 released
David Boyer released the new version including new features like the ability to run as standalone or CF admin extension, details on your server's query cache, details on all threads and more.
FarCry
Core Milestone 6.0.5 Released
Geoff Bowers announces a maintenance release of the FarCry framework that fixes a handful of bugs.
Galleon ColdFusion Forums
Minor Bug Fix
Raymond Camden announced via Twitter that he pushed a minor bug fix for non-MySQL DBs running his forum software.
LogBox
LogBox 1.4 Released!
Luis Majano announces the new version of his logging framework with some bug fixes and new features (listed in post).
MXUnit
MXUnit 2.0 Released
Bill Shelton announces that the latest version of the MXUnit unit testing framework has been released including a new built-in mocking framework, new integrated HTML view and new and improved documentation - among other major enhancements.
RIAForge
Updated Search
Raymond Camden updated search so that if you go to search, pick ColdFusion, for example, and hit the search button, it now returns everything. You can then sort by updated.
ValidateThis
ValidateThis 0.96.2 - Important Bug Fixes
Bob Silverberg released this maintenance update for his validation framework.
Announcements
Mango Blog
Related Entries broken in Mango 1.5
Adam Tuttle notes that his related entries plugin doesn't currently work in 1.5 - though, as noted in his later post, that has been fixed.
Related Entries 1.1.4 - Works in Mango 1.5
Adam Tuttle released an update to his related entries plugin that works on the 1.5 release of Mango.
Mangoblog plugin: rememberLogin! v1.0
Paul Klinkenberg wrote this plugin to remember your login with a cookie once you've authenticated so that you don't have to re-log in on that computer.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
ColdMVC
Modal Helper for ColdMVC
Ryan Vikander created a helper for creating modal windows using jQuery in ColdMVC.
Mango Blog
How to enable verbose logging in Mango 1.4.3+
Adam Tuttle shows how to turn verbose logging back which may be useful if you are a plugin developer.
Hidden Gems in Mango 1.5
Adam Tuttle discusses that database logs and revision tracking are now completely functional with MS SQL Server.
ValidateThis
Custom ValidateThis Result
John Whish shows how you can create a custom result object with Bob Silverberg's validation framework.
Comments
Posted By Raymond Camden / Posted on 07/16/2010 at 7:04 AM
Posted By John Farrar / Posted on 07/17/2010 at 4:36 PM