ColdFusion Open Source Update - June 21, 2010
Posted on Jun 21, 2010
Five new releases and six updates this week (or so) in ColdFusion open source. I am sitting in the jury pool as I write this - what fun! It's been a busy week, clearly, in ColdFusion open source but also personally as I have been busy getting speakers, sponsors and workshops confirmed for RIA Unleashed : Boston 2010. I'm really excited about this year with the two day format including a day of hands-on training (each day can be purchased independently). If you are into ColdFusion (which, by reading this, I assume you are), you'll want to catch speakers including Raymond Camden, Adam Lehman, Terry Ryan, Simon Free, Marc Esher and more. Oh, and if you do Flex or AIR there will be tons for you too...sorry to ramble on, just excited, but enough about my conference...
New Releases and Updates
New Project: CFC Hint Checker Extension
ColdFusion Component Hint Checker Extension
Matt Gifford wrote this component that searches for methods in components that do not have a hint defined.
New Project: CFNotifo
Send Push Notifications to an iPhone from ColdFusion
Bob Silverberg wrote an API wrapper for the Notifo service to create mobile push notifications.
New Project: Project Honeypot Link generator
Project Honeypot Link generator
Paul Klinkenberg created this CFC for generating completely random, invisible links to Project Honeypot to avoid email harvester scripts.
New Project: VFS Explorer Extension
Virtual File Explorer Released! ColdFusion Builder Extension to view, edit and delete your virtual files and directories.
Sam Farmer released this ColdFusion builder extension for browsing your virtual file system in ColdFusion.
New Project: WSS4CF
Initial Release
James Holmes released this project that provides an implementation of the Web Security Standard.
CFTracker
CFTracker 1.7 + UserVoice
David Boyer released a new version of his application for reading session, application, memory and other statistics.
ColdFusion on Wheels
Released: ColdFusion on Wheels 1.0.5
Chris Peters announces a new release of the framework with a number of bug fixes back-ported from the 1.1 development cycle.
EasyXMS
EasyXMS with BlogCFC
Oliver Neumman integrated his EasyXMS CMS with Raymond Camden's BlogCFC.
Framework One
FW/1 Release 1.1 Available!
Sean Corfield announces that the Framework One 1.1 release is official and includes features like a skeleton application, delimiter for subsystems can be configured and ability to override the behavior when a view is missing to name just a few (many more are listed on this post).
Mango Blog
Mango Blog Update 1.5 and enabling manage system permissions
John Sieber notes that your default administrator account needs to have "manage system" in order to perform the Mango 1.5 update.
Mango Blog 1.5 Released
John Gag notes that, while no details have been posted yet, the new version of Mango Blog is available and users are being prompted to auto-upgrade.
Mango 1.5 is in the wild: What's Changed?
Adam Tuttle uses the commit notes to figure out what is new in the latest Mango release.
Razuna
Razuna 1.4 Preview Release 1 available
Version 1.4 includes over 100 changes with many noted here including cataloging files and folders from public URLs, search improvements and reading metadata from all image types to name a few.
Announcements
FarCry
FarCry Community Bug Database, WIKIs & Fisheye
FarCry has migrated their entire community infrastructure to the Jira Studio platform.
Subversion Repositories for FarCry
The new repositories have quite a different structure, so this post is important if your builds depend on the repository.
ORM Scanner Extension
ORM Scanner Extension
The ORM scanner extension Raymond Camden blogged about previously has finally been uploaded to RIAForge.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
ColdFusion on Wheels
Breakdown of MyRides - a CfWheels app for displaying MyTracks data
John Sieber begins a series of posts looking at a ColdFusion on Wheels application he built.
General (Frameworks)
Why use a framework?
Luis Majano, the primary author behind the ColdBox framework, gives a few key reasons as well as a full-throated defense for using frameworks.
Model-Glue
Preventing CSRF Attacks Using Event-Types in Model-Glue
Brian Swartzfager shows how he added cross site scripting forgery protection ot his Model-Glue application.
Mura CMS
Adding Solr Search to Mura CMS
Another tutorial by me showing how to use ColdFusion 9's Solr-based searching rather than the query-based searching that is default in Mura CMS.
Connecting Mura CMS to an ORM Application
I wrote about a specific requirement I had to connect my Mura CMS to back-end services that relied on ColdFusion ORM.
Mura Plugin Development: PluginConfig and PluginApplication
Grant Shepert adds an exploration of the PluginConfig and PluginApplication objects in Mura to his advanced plugin series.
Update: ANT to Automate Build Version Number
Adam Presley updates his post about automating build numbers for Mura plugins.
Video: Intro to Mura CMS
Dan Wilson interviews Sean Schroeder of Blue River Interactive about their Mura open source CMS.
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Posted By Adam Presley / Posted on 06/30/2010 at 8:25 PM