ColdFusion Open Source Update - July 6, 2010

Two new projects and six updates this week in ColdFusion open source. This update actually covers more than a week (again) but I think the warm summer weather hasn't been conducive to open source coding. Nonetheless, I expect to hear some announcements coming before this year's CFUnited, which you probably heard by now will be the last one ever. There's still time to register, so if you can attend, you should! While you're at it, don't miss the early bird rate for RIA Unleashed 2010!

New Releases and Updates

New Project: CFPing
Initial Release
David Long created this server monitoring tool which currently only supports Windows (as a start).

New Project: Generate Random Data CFBuilder Extension
Generate Random Data CFBuilder Extension
Raymond Camden created this ColdFusion Builder extension that generates random query data.

BugLogHQ
BugLogMini
Oscar Arevalo created this desktop application in Adobe AIR that connects to his BugLogHQ bug tracker.

CFTracker
CfTracker 2.0 Beta
Dave Boyer released the new version of his application for viewing applications, sessions, query cache and server information. This post gives details on what is included in the update.

cfUniForm
cfUniForm v4.1 - Minor Release Update to Uni-Form 1.4
The primary purpose of this release is to get it in line with the 1.4 release of the Uni-Form markup and CSS spec.

FarCry
Core Milestone 6.0.4 Released
A FarCry maintenance release including some bug fixes and enhancements (listed in the post).

testMXUnit: FarCry Testing Framework Supports Selenium
Geoff Bowers posts about a new FarCry plugin based upon the MXUnit testing framework that provides a UI for running test suites inside FarCry.

Core Milestone 6.0.3 Released
The 6.0.3 maintenance release of the FarCry framework has been posted with a list of changes on this blog post.

Framework One
FW/1 hotfixes for 1.0 and 1.1
Sean Corfield releases a hotfix for an error handling issue for both 1.0 and 1.1 and describes how easy Git made it to create a hotfix for multiple versions.

ValidateThis
ValidateThis 0.95 - Enhancements to the Result Object and Client-Side Validations
Bob Silverberg released a new version of his validation framework including improvements to the result object and improved client-side validation.

ValidateThis 0.96 - Not Just For Objects, JSON Metadata and JavaScript Niceties
Bob Silverberg updated his validation framework so that it now works on structures as well as objects.

Announcements

ColdFusion on Wheels
Bug fixes in ColdFISH on Wheels version 0.3
Chris Peters fixes a bug in his ColdFusion on Wheels plugin.

FarCry
FarCry Documentation Plugin
Geoff Bowers posts about this plugin that provides extensive framework documentation.

Mango Blog
Mango Blog plug-in - roleSecure
Dave Ferguson created a plugin that will secure certain pages according to the user's role.

Honeypot Spam Blocker - mangoblog plugin
Paul Klinkenberg released a plugin that uses Project Honeypot's database to simply block access to your site by email havesters and spammers.

Version 1.5 Released
Laura Arguello posts the official release notes for the 1.5 release many people posted about a couple weeks prior.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

FarCry
testMXUnit Selenium Test Tutorial
Geoff Bowers posts about a tutorial by Blair on building a simple Selenium script and and running it through the FarCry webtop.

Mango Blog
Mango Blog Setup Folder Security
Mark Aplet posts a very important reminder to remove your installation files from your Mango Blog - I for one admit I had unwisely left them in until reminded.

Mura CMS
What I learned at Summer Camp (aka Mura CMS Developer Training)
Grant Shepert discusses his experiences in the Mura "back-end developer" training.

SES URLs With Mura on Tomcat
Adam Presley shows how to set this up with Mura running on Railo in Tomcat.

Sebtools
Records / Manager
Steve Bryant shows off this tool that is part of his Sebtools package and helps simplify common CRUD tasks.

Records / Manager Form
Steve Bryant continues his series discussing the Records.cfc that is part of his Sebtools package.