ColdFusion Open-Source Update - July 7, 2008

Four new projects and three updates this week. I am writing this from hot and humid Miami. A fairly busy week considering the stateside holiday though something like 90% of the posts this week come from 3 sources I think.

New Releases and Updates

New Project: Code Scanner
Code Scanner Update
A change to an included Access database rather than MySQL.

Announcing Code Scanner 1.0!
Will Tomlinson releases this new code review tool.

New Project: SPCaller
SPCaller - A Component That Calls Stored Procedures
Bob Silverberg released this component for automatically calling stored procedures.

New Project: Switchboard Framework
Initial Release
Daniel Slaughter released this framework which is both procedural in nature and not XML configured.

New Project: Yet Another ColdFusion CMS
Initial Release
Terrence Ryan wrote his own "mid-level" CMS because none of the current options fit his needs.

CF Groovy
CF Groovy Redux at BarneyBlog
Barney Boisvert releases a revamp of his project making it CFC based.

ColdBox
Broadcasting and Interceptors in Coldbox
Another tutorial from Will Tomlinson.

WhosOnCFC
WhosOnCFC 2.1.0 Feature Requests
Shane Zehdner posts the new version which includes, among other features, a way to specify which bots to ignore.

Announcements

ColdBox
ColdBox Training Seminar Venue, Dates, Schedule and Pricing Posted. REGISTER NOW!
Luis Majano posts that the dates, location and pricing details for his ColdBox training has been announced.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

CF Groovy
CF Groovy Takes a Nap at BarneyBlog
Barney Boisvert shows how to deploy pure source to Railo and get Groovy entities in and out of Hibernate.

Fun with Classloading in Java
Barney Boisvert discusses issues with classloading and getting Groovy and Hibernate to play nice together.

CFUnit
An Introduction to Writing Unit Tests (with CFUnit)
Steve Bryant offers this tutorial.

ColdBox
My Little Contribution to Coldbox…
Will Tomlnson discusses some code he contributed to the ColdBox project.

Issues with Coldbox
Will Tomlinson dscusses a problem and, in the end, the solution he found.

Fusebox
Basic Security in Fusebox 5.5.x (sans XML)
Doug Boude offers this tutorial.

What the %*#@ is an Exit Handler?
Will Tomlinson offers this tutorial.

General (Frameworks)
MVC Form Handling with ColdBox, ColdSpring, and Transfer. Does this seem right?
Jason Dean talks about and wonders how best to handle form validation.

General (Unit Testing)
I Like Unit Testing
Bob Silverberg posts about his first forays into unit testing.

Model-Glue
Analyzing Model Glue
Will Tomlinson takes a look at Model-Glue and discusses some issues he doesn't like.

MXUnit
Using MXUnit to Test SQL Server Database Logic
Bill Shelton shows how to use MXUnit to test SQL code logic used in things like stored procedures.

Seeker
ColdFusion & Lucene: Running the Demos
Sami Hoda continues his tutorial series on using Lucene for search with Seeker.

Transfer
How I Use Transfer - Part IV - My Abstract Service Object
Bob Silverberg continues his exellent Transfer series.