ColdFusion Open Source Update - March 9, 2010
Posted on Mar 09, 2010
Two new projects and three updates this week in ColdFusion open source (a shortened week due to my late post last week). All of the lucky people are at 360Flex in San Jose this week. From the various blog posts and tweets I have caught, it sounds like John and Tom put on another fantastic event. Here's hoping they keep the info coming for those of us not fortunate enough to attend. On to this week's open source posts.
New Releases and Updates
New Project: Smartermail API wrapper + UI
Initial Release
Paul Klinkenberg released this project which wraps the smartermail API in a component and adds an entire UI.
New Project: TwitPic API ColdFusion Wrapper
TwitPic API ColdFusion Wrapper
Matt Gifford created this component to simplify interacting with the Twitpic API.
BlogCFC
BlogCFC 5.9.5.005
Raymond Camden announces the latest release of his blogging engine including some small fixes and a new installer.
CF No Debug
CF No Debug 1.3
Nathan Mische has updated his Firefox extension to work with Firefox 3.6.
Model-Glue
New Official Release - Model-Glue 3.1 M
Dan Wilson announces that the 3.1 maintenance release has been certified as the latest official build.
Announcements
ColdBox
ColdBox Training in London for SOTR
Luis Majano announces that he will be offering a 3-day intensive ColdBox training right after Scotch on the Rocks.
Lightwire
Do you want to see this in LightWire?
Peter Bell wants opinions on Thomas Messier's request to add "arbitrary runtime constructors" to Lightwire.
Mango Blog
Mangoblog plugin: Adsense. Ads on your blog! v1.1.1
Paul Klinkenberg created this Mango Blog plugin to make it easy to add advertisements through a service like Adsense to your blog.
Konami Code Plugin
Mark Aplet created the single greatest plugin ever that makes it easy to add easter eggs to your site via the "Konami code."
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
Framework One
Day one with FW/1
Shane Zehnder discusses his initial experiences with Sean Corfield's Framework One.
Mango Blog
MangoBlog/Oracle Integration
Phil Duba discusses how he got Mango working with Oracle.
Splash CMS
Content Management and the Splash CMS — Introduction
Clarke Bishop gives an overview of Russ Johnson's Spash CMS which runs on top of the ColdFusion on Wheels framework.
Make an RSS Feed for Your Splash Site
Clarke Bishop shows how you can use Splash Tags to make an RSS feed or sitemap XML in Russ Johnson's Spash CMS.
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