ColdFusion Open-Source Update - June 30, 2008
Two new projects and four updates this week. Did you, dear reader, realize that I have been doing this weekly update for over two years now? Well, neither did I. I am not sure why I was curious, but I was and it turns out that the the very first update was on April 30, 2006. I think in two years I have missed a couple weeks, usually on Christmas. I thought there was a lot to talk about back then, when there were probably no more than 100 projects. Anyway, sorry to toot my own horn a bit here but today I really needed some motivation to get this done - oh, and did I forget a shameless, gratuitous mention of my wishlist?
New Releases and Updates
New Project: coreForms
Initial Release
Charles Kaufmann wrote this set of custom tags which are designed to simplify form creation and validation.
New Project: Grub
Initial Release
This project, by Adam Tuttle, replaces his earlier CFMenuCal and creates a calendar menu based upon your preferences.
ColdFire
ColdFire 1.2 Released
Nathan Mische posts that this release will work with Firebug 1.2 (which is in beta) on Firefox 3.
ColdFire update for latest Firebug
Raymond Camden comments on the new release and notes that it may be possible add future ColdFire support for Railo.
Seeker
ColdFusion & Lucene: Installing Seeker
Sami Hoda offers this tutorial on how the get Ray Camden's Lucene wrapper up and running.
Transfer
How I Use Transfer - Part III - Abstract Objects
Part three in Bob Silverberg's ongoing series.
varScoper
New varScoper release candidate
Mike Schierberl released a new version of his var scope checker with a large number of bug fixes and a cfset generator.
Announcements
ColdBox
ColdBox Training Partnership with Rachel Queen Services Group, LLC
As part of its transition to professional open-source software, ColdBox will offer this 16 hour hands-on training course. Stay tuned for details on the venue.
Farcry
New FarCry “core” site
Daemon lauched a new site for the Farcry framework.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
BlogCFC
Modifying BlogCFC email validation to allow plus signs
Scott Bennett offers this tutorial.
ColdFire
Coldfire - revelation! : On the Bubble
A brief review of ColdFire.
Firebug 1.2 beta and ColdFire
Dan Vega points out an issue you woul drun into with Firebug 1.2 beta and the prior version of ColdFire.
Fusebox
My FB5.5+ Content Pulled a David Blaine!
Doug Boude discusses a difference between Model-Glue and Fusebox that can lead to a common coding error.
General (frameworks)
MVC + IoC + ORM = Amazing learning experience and a lot of fun
Jason Dean discusses his recent experiences using frameworks after taking the Mach-II training.
Mango Blog
Making the Move to Mango
I discuss the trials and tribulations of changing one's blog engine after so many years and so many posts.
Model-Glue
Model-Glue 2 Cheat Sheet
Adam Tuttle revises the cheat sheet by Nando.
Transfer
How I Use Transfer - Part II - Model Architecture
Bob Silverberg continues his ongoing Transfer tutorial.
Save What Has The FK
Matt Quackenbush offers this Transfer tutorial.
Transfer and “Usernames and Passwords for all the database tags within the cftransaction tag must be the same”
And the winner for longest post title of the week goes to... Brian Ghidinelli for his Transfer tutorial.
