ColdFusion Open-Source Update - July 28, 2008

One new project and two updates this week. A light week in terms of new or updated projects but a lot of announcements and a good amount of tutorials and reviews came out (plus my last update was late making this a short week). There has been a lot of posts and discussion around several projects lately, especially Mango Blog, ColdBox and Transfer. Seems like these projects have garnered an active and vocal community of users, which is especially good for POSS projects like ColdBox and Transfer. On that topic, I hope to post the first in a series of posts this week about considerations when starting an open-source project (specifically focused on Adobe products). Keep an eye out if this is a topic that interests you.

New Releases and Updates

New Project: RubyLoader
Harnessing Ruby Within ColdFusion 8
Andrew Powell has released a component that lets you run Ruby scripts within ColdFusion.

DataMgr
DataMgr 2.2 Beta 1
Steve Bryant has released a new version of his data mapper that adds new functionality including automatically knowing the database from the DSN.

sebTags Custom Tag Set
sebtags 1.0 Release Candidate Released
Steve Bryant didn't release any new features but he feels the tag library is ready for RC status.

Announcements

ColdBox
Early Bird Pricing on ColdBox Training ends in 4 days!
What the title says.

Simple CSS Based Graphing Plugin For ColdBox
Russ Johnson has posted a new ColdBox plugin for horizontal bar graphs.

New ColdBox Addons - Transfer Config Factory and Transfer Decorator Injector Observer
The TransferConfigFactory creates a Transfer configuration file based upon the ColdBox configuration datasource information. The TDOBeanInjectorObserver creates rich decorators by injecting them with dependencies.

Mach-II
Get Involved in the Mach-II Project
Peter Farrell puts out a call to Mach-II users to get involved, including a number of ways you can contribute.

Dependent objects made even easier in Mach-II 1.6
Mach-II 1.6 depends feature will allow you to quickly and easily set dependencies without the need of getters/setters.

Mango Blog
Lightbox2 Mango Plugin
Adam Tuttle has released another plugin that makes linking to images in Lightroom much easier.

Comment Whore: Recent Comments Summary Plugin for Mango
Adam Tuttle has released a plugin for the Mango Admin that lets you view/delete recent comments.

Burnt Mango: Mango Blog FeedBurner Plugin
Adam Tuttle is on a plugin role lately, releasing this plugin to simplify integratng RSS URLs from FeedBurner.

Model-Glue
New MG3 Feature: Dynamic viewMappings
Joe Rinehart shows off a new feature for MG3 that he is about to check into SVN.

Model-Glue Welcomes Dan Wilson
Dan Wilson of the famed No-Dans Club is now a member of the Model-Glue team.

Razuna
Updates on Razuna - open source Digital Asset Management
Version 1.1 is coming in a couple weeks including an embedded database which will simplify installation.

WhosOnCFC
WhosOnCFC 2.2.0 Documentation Finished Up
Shane Zehdner has created detailed documentation for this release.

WhosOnCFC 2.2.0 to be Released Friday
A number of significant changes are apparently coming in this version by Shane Zehdner.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

ColdBox
ColdBox RELOAD FRAMEWORK LINK on error
Ernst van der Linden shows how you can modify ColdBox error template to include a reload framework link.

ColdBricks, BugLog
A Peek Inside the Software Factory: Core Framework
Oscar Arevalo posted some pages describing the framework upon which ColdBricks and BugLog were built.

Mango Blog
Goodbye WordPress, Hello Mango!
Adam Tuttle talks about his site's recent move ot Mango.

Working on a Mango Conversion
Dan (last name?) is planning on moving off his old ASP-based blog and onto Mango.

Mango blogging - more choice is what we want!
Craig McDonald is planning on testing out Mango for an internal company blog.

MXUnit
Code and Preso: Database Test Patterns for Unit Testing
Bill Shelton posts his presentation materials from his ColdFusion Meetup Group presentation.

Transfer
How I Use Transfer - Part IX - My Abstract Transfer Decorator Object - The Populate Method
Bob Silverberg continues his ongoing series.

How I Use Transfer - Part X - My Abstract Transfer Decorator Object - Validations
Bob Silverberg continues his series.