ColdFusion Open-Source Update - March 2, 2009
Posted on Mar 02, 2009
Two new projects and seven updates this week. This week's update is really sweet as it is practically the all Mango update with Mango accounting for a full 13 of the posts. Still, such is Mango. "Oh, to be Mango! What to be me?!"
New Releases and Updates
New Project: (I want my) Last.fm CFC
(I want my) Last.fm CFC wrapper
Matt Gifford created this project to access the Last.fm API.
New Project: Bounce Detector
Bounce Detector Released
Brian Ghidinelli discusses the release of his project to help determine the cause of bounced emails.
cfUniForm
cfUniForm v3.2 - Bug Fixes and New Error Message
Matt Quackenbush updates his project with some bug fixes and an error message array that now returns in the proper order.
cfUniForm v3.3 - Client-Side Cancel Redirect and Cancel Button Bug Fix
As of version 3.3, the cancel button doesn't have to submit the form.
CFXL
CFXL 2.0 Released
Jason Delmore changes CFXL under the covers to use POI instead of JExcel.
Confluence Gateway
ColdFusion to Confluence Gateway/API (updated)
Russell Brown updates his Confluence integration component with better connection state management and some new hooks.
Mango Blog
Version 1.3 released
Laura Arguello releases her new version of Mango Blog that include features such as custom authentication, updated administration forms, plugin auto-install functionality and much more.
Metro
Metro 0.6 Released
Paul Marcotte made some significant changes to his project, some of which break backwards compatability.
Scheduler.cfc
Scheduler.cfc 1.0
Steve Bryant releases the full version of his component that allows any component to schedule a task for itself.
ValidatorCFC
Update to ValidatorCFC
Sean Coyne updates his component thanks to Aaron Greenlee whereby you can specify which properties you want validated.
Announcements
Mach-II
Mach-II 1.6.0 Development Stats - Wow!
Peter Farrell shares some numbers to show how much work went into Mach-II 1version 1.6.
Mango Blog
RelatedEntries updated for Mango 1.3
Adam Tuttle updated his related entries plugin which would break in Mango 1.3.
A new Mango Blog Plugin: Flash ShowCase
Russell Brown created a plugin to display SWFs inline in posts.
BasePlugin.cfc in Mango 1.3
Seb Duggan discusses his BasePlugin component which is now a part of Mango 1.3.
Last.fm plugin for Mango Blog
Seb Duggan created this plugin to display your recently played tracks in a pod.
LogViewer plugin updated for Mango 1.3
Adam Tuttle updates his log viewer plugin with an icon provided by Seb Duggan.
Mango Blog shareMe Plugin (Beta)
John Gag creates a plugin to add a link to share a blog post.
Admin page layout in Mango 1.3
Seb Duggan discusses some of the changes to admin pages in version 1.3.
Mango Blog 1.3 feedMe Plugin Update
John Gag updates his plugin to meet new 1.3 standards.
jQuery plugin for Mango
This plugin by Seb Duggan includes the jQuery JavaScript library in your pages.
PDFUtils
Do you test under cfsetting?
Raymond Camden shares a mistake he made on his PDFUtils project whereby he forgot to test it with enableCFOutputOnly set to true.
Razuna
Why a open source Digital Asset Management System is the right tool for the m...
Nitai discusses why Razuna might be a good fit for your company's needs.
Sava CMS
How to choose a CMS (and why you should consider Sava CMS)
Some advice from the Sava crew on choosing a content management system.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
cfGroovy
My first cfGroovy application - setting things up
Alan Livie starts his tutorial series by setting up the environment with cfGroovy, Model-Glue 3, ColdSpring and Hibernate.
My first cfGroovy application - pt 2 - testing Hibernate
Alan Livie discusses getting Hibernate persistence working through Model-Glue.
My first cfGroovy application - pt 3 - getting Groovy unit tests running in
Alan Livie discusses some issues he was having running the unit tests.
CFWheels
CFWheels: URL Rewriting in a subfolder using IIS
CFWheels doesn't support URL rewriting if it is running in a subfolder by default so Tony Petruzzi shows how it can be done in IIS.
General (Frameworks)
Frameworks Comparison Presentation Recording
Isaac Dealey shares the recording URL for his presentation to the online Meetup group.
Mach-II
Pre-cf.Objective() 2009 Mach-II Training Canceled
Sadly the bad economy seems to have taken its toll on the training market.
Mango Blog
Developing Plugins in Mango 1.3
Adam Tuttle discusses some of the important changes to plugin development in the new version of Mango.
Mango Blog Is Truly Impressive
Mango Blog gets the ultimate and full-throated endorsement of Ben Forta.
Everything you need to know about Mango pods – Part 2: Plugin Pods
Adam Tuttle explains how to create a pod from a plugin.
Metro
Validating Business Objects with Metro
Matt Quackenbush focuses on using the validation included in Paul Marcotte's Metro.
Transfer
Transfer: Something I like about it.
David Harris discusses a couple of things he likes about Transfer.
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