ColdFusion Open-Source Update - March 30, 2009
Posted on Mar 30, 2009
Three new projects and four updates this week. Not only was this a relatively busy week of releases, but it was a week filled with controversy and interesting discussions. There was the ongoing Sys-Con debacle that has not only made the Flex and Flash community realize what we ColdFusion folks knew long ago (i.e Sys-Con is disgusting) but also seems to have made Sys-Con join the world of the delusional and insane. On the ColdFusion side, Sean Corfield stirred the pot and brought up a lot of healthy discussion about open-source and community.
New Releases and Updates
New Project: ColdTonica
Introducing ColdTonica
Matt Woodward released this project which clones a PHP application called Laconica which is a microblogging solution similar to Twitter.
New Project: Skeleton Site Creator
Initial Release
Joe Danziger created this skeleton application generator based upon database metadata.
New Project: Ultra HTTP Get
Initial Release
Richard Pinedo created this custom tag to multithread large file downloads.
BlogCFC
BlogCFC 5.9.2.004 (and a question).
Raymond Camden posts this maintenance release that fixes an issue on Open BlueDragon and asks for feedback on how to handle skins in BlogCFC 6.
Flogr
Flogr Gets Some Lovin'
Scott Stroz has given his Flex-based log file reader a complete rewrite.
Scott Stroz has further modified Flogr to run as a ColdFusion administrator extension again.
Mach-II
Mach-II 1.6.1 Stable Available
Matt Woodward announces this maintenance release for Mach-II.
TMT_Calendar
0.3 Released
Massimo Foti updates his calendar application to use DataMgr for CRUD operations.
Announcements
CFGoovy
New CFGoovy Demo App
Barney Boisvert added a blog demo application for his Groovy integration project.
Mach-II
Mach-II: History, Philosophy, and Community
Matt Woodward gives a great overview of why open-source applications never really die (you can, after all, maintain the code yourself) and Team Mach-II's approach to development and community.
Model-Glue
Dan Wilson takes over the Model-Glue Framework
Joe Rinehart has decided, for a number of reasons mostly related to a lack of time to commit, to hand the reigns over to Dan Wilson.
Is it time for a ColdFusion Foundation?
John Mason responds to Sean's concern regarding Model-Glue by proposing a foundation similar to the Apache Foundation for open-source development.
Is Model-Glue Dead?
Sean Corfield stirs the pot by asking how come there hasn't been any significant development on Model-Glue in quite a long time. This one has a great comment thread worth reading as well.
On Model-Glue and CodexWiki
Model-Glue's new caretaker, Dan Wilson, discusses his philosophy on using tools based upon other frameworks in places that support Model-Glue.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
CFGroovy
Groovy, Smashing. Yay capitalism!
Jon Messer gives an extensive walkthrough of getting started with Hibernate using Barney Boisvert's CFGroovy project.
Brian Kotek discusses why many ColdFusion folks are moving to Groovy and how CFGroovy makes the integration easy.
ColdBox
Dynamic Model Mappings in ColdBox
Tony Garcia shows you how to use model mappings, which are aliases for your components, and how to generate those mappings dynamically.
ColdSpring
ColdSpring: An answer to a problem you may not know you have
Dan Skaggs gives a great introduction to ColdSpring.
HomePortals
HomePortals 3.1 Beta (Part 2)
Oscar Arevalo continues his introduction to his HomePortals framework.
Razuna
How to deploy Razuna to your virtual environment
Nitai posts this video tutorial.
Transfer
manytoone and a onetomany in Transfer ORM
John Whish shows how you can get around not being able to use the same foreign key for many to one and one to many relationships.
WhosOnCFC
WhosOnCFC for Site Security
Shane Zehnder shows how being able to see your site's visitors and locations can improve site security.
Comments
http://www.blogcfc.com/index.cfm/2009/3/30/BlogCFC-592005-Released
Posted By Raymond Camden / Posted on 03/30/2009 at 9:07 PM