ColdFusion Open Source Update - March 24, 2010
Posted on Mar 24, 2010
Five new projects and three updates this week in ColdFusion open source. With the release of ColdFusion Builder we're seeing a whole new group of projects built with CFML: ColdFusion Builder Extensions. It's already pretty impressive what people have come up with so far and I have even done a couple of minor extensions myself. This is an amazing feature that makes customizing your IDE to suit your preferences, your company's practices or to share with the ColdFusion community something that anyone with basic CFML skills can do. On that note, if you're in the Boston area tomorrow night and want to know more about ColdFusion Builder and extensions, be sure to come check out Adam Lehman speaking to my Boston CFUG.
New Releases and Updates
New Project: ASpace
Initial Release
This component by Reinhart Jung is designed to help you menage spaces on Assembla.
New Project: Google Geocoder V3
Initial Release
The project by Monte Chan will return geocoding information on an address.
New Project: Lorem Ipsum CFBuilder Extension
Lorem Ipsum ColdFusion Builder Extension
Matt Gifford created this useful extension that will simply dump some Lorem Ipsum text into the document as a placeholder.
New Project: ORMScanner CFBuilder Extension
ORMScanner CFBuilder Extension
Raymond Camden released this new ColdFusion Builder extension to identify incorrect attributes within cfproperty tags (specifically related to ORM).
New Project: ResourceManager
Initial Release
David Beale released this project that is an i18n library that uses resource bundles in a manner consistent with Adobe Flex.
CFCommons
Version 0.8.338 Released!
Brian Carr announces this new version of thei CFCommons library that, aside from some bug fixes and enhancements, includes a new Instrumentation library and a PowerNap HTTP context plugin.
MockBox
MockBox 1.2 Released!
Luis Majano announces that the new version of his MockBox mocking framework is available as a standalone project or within ColdBox that includes some new methods.
WhosOnCFC
WhosOnCFCÂ 2.2.5
Shane Zehnder updated his user tracking component with some enhancements and code optimizations.
Announcements
cf_sebForm
New Documentation for cf_sebForm (and other SebTags)
Steve Bryant has added new documentation for some of the tags he has been blogging about recently.
ColdBox
ColdBox Helps Government Rape Awareness Campaign
Glyn Jackson discusses a government project he was involved in that uses ColdBox.
ColdSpring
ColdContract
This is an advice component for ColdSpring by David Beale that allows "Design by Contract" assertions to be added and runtime executed in CFCs for faster TDD development.
Google Geocode CFC
Video demo of GoogleGeocode
Raymond Camden shares a video from a user covering his Google Geocode CFC but then states that Monte Chan's recently released version is more complete.
Mango Blog
Mangoblog plugin: cfmlIncluder
Another plugin by Paul Klinkenberg that will add the ability to include a CFM template to your post.
Post To Twitter Plugin
Laura Arguello has created an extension to her Mango Blog application that will post new blog posts to twitter.
Mangoblog plugin: extra-HTML-Content
This plugin by Paul Klinkenberg adds any HTML you specify to either the header or body sections of your layout.
Mango Blog Admin News Pod Plugin
This plugin by John Gag simply adds the latest news from MangoBlog.org to your admin.
Mura CMS
MuraMediaPlayer Plugin Released for ColdFusion-Powered Mura CMS
Stephen Withington released that uses the JWPlayer to play FLV, MP4, AAC and MP3.
tumblrCFC
tumblrCFC now listed on tumblr.com's third-party apps page
Andy Matthews posts that his tumblrCFC is listed on tumblr's list of 3rd party applications.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
CFCommons
CFCommons Visuals; Enter the PluggableContext
Brian Carr posts this screencast about the context module.
MockBox
MockBox - It's not just for unit testing
Curt Gratz discusses some of the other uses for MockBox beyond the one you'd assume.
Mura CMS
Authenticating Against an External User Store in Mura CMS
I wrote a long tutorial covering how to connect your Mura login to an external authentication system such as a database of users outside Mura.
How to Strip/Remove the SiteID From the URL in Mura CMS
Stephen Withington posts how to have your Mura site URL not contain the site ID.
Comments
Posted By Glyn Jakson / Posted on 04/04/2010 at 3:05 PM