ColdFusion Open-Source Update - June 16, 2009

Four new projects and, yes, eight updates this week. It was a busy week of releases apparently. Perhaps that's because of all the time freed up now that we've finally stopped arguing with each other (i.e. OO vs procedural). Unfortunately, the more projects people release, the longer it takes to write this post. Thus I am trying to come up with a new war within the CF community to save myself some time next week. Maybe Mango vs BlogCFC?

New Releases and Updates

New Project: Googleitics
Initial Release
Pete Alexandrou wrote this component to retreive Google Analytics metrics, including Google Visualization API charts, for your site.

New Project: JVMConfig Generator
Initial Release
Marcos Placona released this project which generates configuration files for new ColdFusion instances.

New Project: Pingback
Initial Release
Marko Simic wrote this pingback support to add to existing blog software.

New Project: twitterCOM
Initial Release
This component released by Quinn Michaels includes implementations of all the major functionality in Twitter.

Backpack API Wrapper
Backpack api wrapper for coldfusion!
Paul Klinkenberg released a set of components for integrating with Backpack's APIs.

BlogCFC
Important BlogCFC Update
Raymond Camden posts an update to BlogCFC that loads SweetTweets data via jQuery to avoid the initial load hit that they caused.

DataMgr
DataMgr 2.2.0.2 and com.sebtools Build 1
Steve Bryant updates DataMgr to fix some bugs which meant that the com.sebtools package he released also needed to be updated.

Illudium PU-36 Code Generator
Preview the Illudium Connector Bolt Extension
I discuss the release of my Bolt extension to connect your RDS DataView to an existing Illudium installation.

Lighthouse Pro
New version of Lighthouse Pro - Need Testers
Raymond Camden releases a beta release of Lighthouse Pro that supports Model-Glue 3 that he would like people to test before he makes an official release.

Model-Glue
Model Glue:Gesture - New Feature For Review - Default Event Types
Dan Wilson is looking for some input regarding the implementation of default events types - includes a build with a default event types implementation.

Portcullis, Thor
Portcullis and Thor have been updated
John Mason updated his SQL Injection/XSS filter and validation system.

Razuna
Razuna 1.2 Release Candidate 1
This is the final release candidate for Razuna 1.2.

Announcements

ColdBox
Mocking Objects with ColdBox Annotations
Luis Majano shows how to use MockBox to test objects "blended" via annotations.

ColdBox Training at CFUnited 2009
A reminder to register for the 1 day training on ColdBox on August 11th at CFUnited.

Mach-II
Feedback Wanted on Mach-II RadioGroup Form Tag
Mach-II 1.8 will include some help for creating views including some custom tag libraries. However, the Mach-II team is looking for some input regarding the implementation of the radio group tag.

copyToScope - Yet another Wicked Mach-II Feature!
Brian FitzGerald highlights a new feature that helps you clean up your view code.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

cfSpec
cfspec and a bit of jquery
John Whish shows how to use some jQuery to make a nicely formatted output for the cfSpec test results.

ColdBox
My Twelve Steps to a Coldbox App
Doug Boude walks through his development process for building a ColdBox application.

Mango Blog
SES URLs in Mango Blog on Tomcat
Indiver Nagpal posts this tip on getting SES URLs working on JBoss-Tomcat.