ColdFusion Open-Source Update - May 26, 2009

Five new projects and one update this week in ColdFusion open source. Sorry for the lateness on this post but between the late nights of drinking at 360|Flex last week and another late night of drinking with my friend backstage at The National concert at The House of Blues, I am still recovering. However, I learned a lot. First, I learned that the community is doing some pretty damn amazing things with Flex and AIR (there are some seriously smart people developing in Flex). The second is that The National party to Nelly and Cee-lo on their tour bus, which might be a surprise to you if you are familiar with The National's music.

New Releases and Updates

New Project: CFJavaScript
CFJavaScript - Easy "Push" Solution for ColdFusion Developers
Another RocketBoots project that leverages LCDS or Blaze to add "push" to JavaScript with ColdFusion.

New Project: CFModel
CFModel - Custom Tag for MXML-Style instantiation of CFCs
Based upon the description, this project by RocketBoots is designed to create instances of objects using an MXML-style syntax and includes things like data-binding.

New Project: Manage Bounced Emails (MBE)
Initial Release
This project by Mamdoh Alhabeeb will clean up your subscription data based upon bounced emails.

New Project: next-generator
next-generator, an Illudium PU-36 based app that works with Railo
Dominic Watson took my Illudium PU-36 Code Generator and made some changes to allow it to run on Railo, then added an HTML/JS front-end and added/modified some features.

New Project: Zipper
ColdFusion: Zipper - Utility to Zip and Deliver a Collection of Files and/or ...
Craig Kaminsky released this project which creates a zip file of an entire directory or group of files and allows the user to download it or have it emailed to them.

ColdFusion on Wheels
Wheels 0.9.2 Release
Chris Peters announces the new release that includes a number of bug fixes.

Announcements

CFMoBlog
CFMoBlog News
John Ramon discusses some features he has added to his mobile blog software.

ColdFusion Cookbook
ColdFusion Cookbook Update
Raymond Camden announces that the existing ColdFusion cookbook will be shut down and the content moved to the Adobe site that is now no longer specific to Flex.

ColdFusion on Wheels
New Chapter: Object Validation
Chris Peters posts about new documentation for object validation.

Methods for Tracking Change
Chris Peters posts about new documentation for handling dirty records.

How OO Almost Destroyed a Business
Chris Peters links to this week's most talked about blog post in the CF world and discusses how he thinks CFWheels relates.

ColdSpring
ColdSpring News, CFConversations RoundTable and other cf.Objective() tidbits
Mark Mandel announces that he will be taking over development of the ColdSpring Framework from Chris Scott who is focused on Swiz.

Model Glue
Model Glue:Gesture - In The News
Dan Wilson covers posts by John Ramon and Dan Skaggs about Gesture.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

ColdBox
CFC Method Testing in Coldbox
Clint Willard discusses something he has been building to run simple CFC method tests within ColdBox rather than running through cfUnit.

ColdBox Series: Part I - Getting Started with ColdBox
Craig Kaminsky starts a new tutorial series that will follow him as he learns the ColdBox framework.

CFObjective CBOX 100 Training
Luis Majano posts the slides from his one day pre-conference training.

Model Glue
ModelGlue 3 first impressions from an MG newbie
Dan Skaggs discusses his initial thoughts about Model Glue:Gesture after building a proof of concept application with it.

Transfer
Follow up: JSON value object from Transfer via ColdSpring remote proxy
Adam Bellas shares his component for easily getting JSON serialized objects out of your Transfer objects.

ValidateThis!
An Object Oriented Approach to Validations - Presentation Materials
Bob Silverberg uploads the slides from his cf.Objective() presentation.

Validate What?
Peter Bell discusses his initial thoughts regarding Bob Silverberg's validation framework after cf.Objective().