ColdFusion Open-Source Update - May 7, 2010
Posted on May 07, 2010
Three new projects and one update this week in ColdFusion open source. For years this post ran always on a Monday then for some months moved to Tuesday and now its literally whatever day of the week I get around to it. This isn't just to keep my readers on their toes but because I have just been crazy busy outside work lately with side projects, articles and more. One of those side projects that simply keeps growing is RIA Unleashed, the conference I organize each year here in Boston. I just announced the dates for this year yesterday and the fact that I am adding a second day of hands-on sessions. I am working really hard to officially open ticket sales before Flash and the City next week. If you want to keep up with the latest news on RIA Unleashed follow riaunleashed on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.
New Releases and Updates
New Project: Pastebin (CFBuilder Extension)
CFBuilder Contest: Pastebin
Raymond Camden reviews Dan Vega's submission to his contest which is now available as a project on RIAForge. The extension will integrate with PasteBin for easy sharing of code snippets.
New Project: Squeezer (CFBuilder Extension)
CFBuilder Contest: Squeezer
Guust Nieuwenhuis created this project for Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Builder contest. It's intent is to make it easy to compress/minify JavaScript and CSS files in any given project.
New Project: Varman
Initial Release
Marco Betschart created this project which is intended to manage all the variables within your application.
Hyrule
Hyrule updates
Dan Vega has updated his validation framework which includes some new enhancements and features that he covers in this post.
Hyrule: ColdFusion Validation Framework - Major Rewrite
Dan Vega has completely rewritten his validation framework including supplying all the unit tests for the rules.
Announcements
ColdBox
Training headed to the East Coast
Luis Majano announces that Team ColdBox will be offering the 2-day intensive training before CFUnited.
ColdBox JQueryUI Plugin
Ernst van der Linden updates his plugin which handles are dependent files (js/css) for jQuery 1.8.
ColdFusion on Wheels
Elimination of the CFWheels evangelism team
Mike Henke informs us that there will no longer be a CFWheels evangelism team, of which he was a part.
ColdSpring
ColdSpring Framework on Twitter
Mark Mandel has set up a Twitter account for ColdSpring.
Framework One
Adobe ColdFusion Anthology features FW/1
Apress just released a very cool anthology of articles from the Fusion Authority that includes some regarding FW/1 by Sean Corfield.
Mach-II
Our New Infrastructure URLs: Blog / Trac / SVN
Matt Woodward blogs about the new URL's and blog.
New URLs for Mach-II Trac and SVN, Plus a New Blog
The Mach-II Trac and SVN has been moved to a new account at Codesion and has new URL's and the Mach-II blog has moved to Posterous.
Mango Blog
New Theme: Higher Ground
John Sieber created this new, free theme.
ValidateThis
A New Group to Discuss ValidateThis Framework Development
Bob Silverberg created a new Google Group for his validation framework.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
ColdBox
ColdBox M5 and 2.6.4 Playing Together
Glyn Jackson shows how to run ColdBox M5 and 2.6.4 on different projects on the same machine.
John Whish shares this tutorial on integrating the items discussed in the title.
Hyrule
Hyrule: Getting Started Screencast
Dan Vega does a video giving an overview of his validation framework.
Mach-II
Mach-II Screencast on Templating in a Mach-II Application (Part I)
Brian FitzGerald shows how you can easily skin your Mach-II applications.
Mura CMS
CFConversations 45, Interview 30: Sean Schroeder, Matt Levine & Chris Peterson
Brian Meloche interviews the guys from Blue River Interactive team - aka the guys behind Mura.
MXUnit
MxUnit and Custom Mappings
Bill Rawlinson discussing how to set up MXUnit in a scenario whereby you have two copies of the same site with the same mappings running on the same machine.
Comments
Posted By Dan Vega / Posted on 05/07/2010 at 11:18 AM