ColdFusion Open-Source Update - June 2, 2009

One new project and two updates this week. Yes, I am late...again. I am noticing that somehow I don't feel like working on this late Monday night because, as you may know, Monday's suck.

New Releases and Updates

New Project: Sage Pay CFC
Sage Pay CFC
Glyn Jackson shares his Sagepay payment gateway component.

ColdFire
ColdFire 1.3.207.199, Now With Railo Support
Nathan Mische announces that the new beta includes a debugging template for Railo.

New ColdFire Release
Nathan Mische posted an update that included a stored prorcedure related fix.

ValidateThis!
ValidateThis! 0.75 - Now Supports Internationalization (i18n)
Bob Silverberg announces that the latest release of his validation framework fully supports i18n.

Announcements

CF MoBlog
CF MoBlog Beta Testers
John Ramon is looking for beta testers of his mobile blog software.

ColdBox
Should ColdBox Drop ColdFusion 7 support? Get Involved!!
Luis Majano is asking for community discussion about the future of the framework.

Mach-II
Project Update - 5/28/2009
Peter Farrell posts a long list of updates and news from the last month.

Philosophy: Our decisions on what CFML engines we support
Peter Farrell discusses the Team Mach-II philosophy behind which CFML engines and how far back they support them (including why they are sticking with ColdFusion 7 support).

Mango Blog
Shadowbox Plugin
David Freerksen releases this Shadowbox 3 plugin for Mango Blog for displaying images, video, swf and more.

Razuna
Razuna Hosted Platform publicly available
SixSigns has launched Razuna Hosted Platform at Razuna.com.

RIAForge?
What's that on RIAForge?
Raymond Camden added a new Bolt Extensions category for the (yet to be released) ColdFusion IDE and added 3 extensions himself already.

ValidatorCFC
Quick Note
The ValidatorCFC zip file on RIAForge has been fixed.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

ColdBox
ColdBox and Viewlets
Glyn Jackson offers is ColdBox tips including making a folder of viewlets which hold reusable HTML snippets.

ColdBox Series: Part IIb - Getting Comfortable with Conventions
Craig Kamisky continues his series by discussing ColdBox's preference for convention over configuration.

ColdBox Series: Part IIa - The Website Plan
Craig Kaminsky posts his notes on the site he plans to build alongside the tutorial series.

ColdSpring
Sorry, a ColdSpring BeanFactory named serviceFactory was not found in applica...
Russell Brown shows a simple oversight that can cause problems when working with ColdSpring managed services and Flex.

FarCry
Changing the sort order of FarCry categories/keywords
Michael Sharman tells you how to allow editors to manually sort categories.

Setting a “Label” property tip for FarCry 5
Michael Sharman offers a tip for working with labels on custom objects in FarCry.

Setting the sort order for custom admin items
Michael Sharman offers another FarCry tip.

MXUnit
CI with Hudson, CF, and MXUnit: Configuring ANT and Running Tests
Marc Esher continues his continuous integration series.

Continuous Integration with ColdFusion, Hudson, and MXUnit: Getting Started
Marc Esher posts the first part in a series on how to set up a continuous integration environment using Hudson with MXUnit.

7 Totally Stupid Useless Ways to Invoke ColdFusion Components
Bill Shelton posts this fun (though NSFW) post that relates to MXUnit in that the useless examples are all shown within unit tests.

MXUnit and Selenium Remote Control
Mike Henke posts a demo on working with Selenium and MXUnit.