ColdFusion Open Source Update - May 20, 2010
Posted on May 20, 2010
Two new projects and two updates but lots of announcements and tutorials this week in ColdFusion open source. I am sure a lot of you readers are excited preparing for your trips to NCDevCon this weekend. I wish I could go, I just can't make it to every conference out there. Basically, what I am saying is that I am no Simon Free, conference junkie extraordinaire. Methinks Simon probably still has alcohol running through his system from last weekends Flash and the City even as he heads to NCDevCon. Have fun Simon and the rest of you!
New Releases and Updates
New Project: Gilt (CFBuilder Extension)
CFBuilder Contest: Gilt
Justin Carter wrote this sweet looking entry into Raymond Camden's contest that will convert the mockup XML (BBML) from a form in Balsamiq Mockups to an actual HTML form.
New Project: Xbox 360 Voice CFC
Xbox 360 Voice CFC released on RIAforge.org
Shaun McCran released this component to communicate with the 360voice.com API to get your gamer blog entry or gamer profile data.
BlogCFC
Important BlogCFC update - thanks to ProCheckup
ProChekup nicely shared some security information with Raymond Camden about BlogCFC and Ray proceeded to make the needed corrections.
FarCry
Core Milestone 6.0.2 Released
A new FarCry milestone release was posted and this post details all the bug fixes, new features and other changes that were included.
Announcements
ColdFusion on Wheels
MARC 0.4 (MySQL, Apache, Railo, and ColdFusion On Wheels)
Mike Henke posts this virtual machine instance to allow you to get up and running with ColdFusion on Wheels with minimal effort.
FarCry
FarCry Auto-Docs & Dictionaries Updated
Geoff Bowers discusses the nightly builds of auto-generated documentation for FarCry.
FiLEX
Flex / Coldfusion File Manager - FiLEX Demo Available
Janusz Buda is looking for people interested in testing a demo of his Flex and ColdFusion based file manager.
Framework One
FW/1 1.1 is one step away
Sean Corfield discusses the pending release of his Framework One - what's remaining and how Github has expanded contributions.
Fusebox
Fusecache
Matt Gersting posted an update to his Fusebox caching extension with "while you browse key management," multi-server awareness and improved documentation.
Mango Blog
BOF on Mango Blog
Laura Arguello will be hosting a Birds of a Feather session for Mango Blog at this year's CFUnited.
Mura CMS
Mura at NCDevCon
Mura CMS will have a strong presence at this weekend's NCDevCon conference.
Razuna
Razuna.com and Razuna.org re-designed
Razuna has launched a new site design.
ValidateThis
ValidateThis API Documentation Available
The community's newest Adobe Community Professional, Bob Silverberg, is looking for feedback about future versions of his framework and posts some API docs using ColdDoc.
Who Is Using Contexts with ValidateThis, and How?
Bob Silverberg is conducting an informal survey of his users to see if, as Mark Mandel has apparently stated, the contexts feature is unnecessary.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
ColdBox
ColdBox REST Enabled URLs
Luis Majano discusses how the recent version of ColdBox helps you build URL's for creating easy-to-use RESTful API's.
ColdBox and Event Default Actions - Shorter Links and SEO
James Brown posts how to make utilize default actions in ColdBox.
ImageUtils
Ask a Jedi: Using ColdFusion Image functions and ImageUtils to create dynamic banners
Raymond Camden responds to a reader question.
Mach-II
A Java/Ruby Developer Appreciates ColdFusion?
This is a fantastic post by a member of the DaveRamsey.com team that discusses some of the many benefits of ColdFusion that many of us longtime developers often take for granted. It also discusses briefly their use of Mach-II as their framework of choice.
Mango Blog
MangoBlog: Adding a custom page title
Russ Michaels shows how to make it so the page title and the navigation title don't have to be identical.
MockBox
Unit Testing with Mock Objects via MockBox
Luis Majano offers this excellent tutorial on why and how to use MockBox with MXUnit.
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