ColdFusion Open-Source Update - November 18, 2009
Posted on Nov 18, 2009
Five new projects and three updates in ColdFusion open source projects this week. Sorry for the delay in posting this week but I am still recovering schedule-wise from RIA Unleashed which was a huge success (don't take my word for it? Here's a review from InsideRIA).
New Releases and Updates
New Project: CF Arduino
Initial Release
Justin McLean created this component to communicate with the Arduino platform.
New Project: CFBarbecue
CFBarbecue.cfc (...Just because)
This new project is a wrapper to the Barbecue library for generating bar codes.
New Project: ColdFusion Support Chat
Initial Release
James Harvey released this project that can be used to build a support chat module within an application.
New Project: FreeAgent
Agent in Training
Isaac Dealey's goal with his FreeAgent project (code in SVN) is to allow you to easily write applications that can be ported to any MVC framework.
New Project: Google Language Tools Extension
Google Language Tools Extension for ColdFusion Builder
Terry Ryan has written an new extension that allows you to translate the selected text in the editor using Google's translation API.
ColdBox
ColdBox beta 3 issues addressed and some goodies
Some object serialization issues with ColdFusion 9 and other issues in the recent beta 3 release have been fixed and will be pushed out as part of an updated Beta 3 release this Friday.
ColdBox 3.0.0 Beta 3 Revision Updates
A quick update to beta 3 that includes some unix and unit testing related issues.
ColdBox Release Galore!!
Luis Majano summarizes all this week's ColdBox related releases.
ColdBox Amazon S3 Support
ColdBox now has an Amazon S3 Explorer and an S3 plugin.
Galleon
Galleon Update
Raymond Camden tweets that he has updated his forums application.
ValidateThis
ValidateThis ColdBox Plugin Update
Bob Silverberg fixes a bug in the ColdBox plugin for his validation framework.
Announcements
BlogCFC
Recent Editor Changes
Raymond Camden is looking for feedback on some recent changes to the BlogCFC editor with some changes already made to the version in SVN.
ColdBox
ColdBox Community Workspace
Luis Majano discusses how the move to Assembla includes an initiative to offer a free repository to ColdBox community projects.
Fusebox
Fusebox XML Flowchart Generator
Barney Boisvert built a tool that will generate flowcharts from a Fusebox configuration file.
FuseNG
FuseNG Update
Sadly, Adam Haskell has decided that he no longer has the time or interest in updating a framework he no longer uses. FuseNG was supposed to be a branch of Fusebox which, as of right now, is no longer being developed. The net result of this decision may be that Fusebox is dead. However, as they said in Top Secret, "Let me know if his condition changes."
FuseNG and therefore Fusebox by default are dead...
Peter Farrell weighs in on the death of FuseNG.
FW/1
FW/1 Team Expands!
Sean Corfield announces that Ryan Cogswell has joined Framework One as a committer.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
ColdBox
Coldbox 101 Training Review
Doug Boude was thrilled with his ColdBox training course.
ColdFusion on Wheels
Wheels Presentation at MDCFUG Tonight
Chris Peters posts the slides to Mike Henke's presentation.
Wheels API Documentation Available
The documentation has been expanded to include all public functions in the API.
General (Frameworks)
Code Samples for Rapid OO Development with ColdFusion Frameworks
Mark Mandel posts his samples from his cf.Objective(ANZ) session.
HomePortals
Model-Glue / HomePortals Sample Application
Following up on his ColdBox integration post, Oscar Arevalo shows how to integrate Model-Glue.
Mach-II
This Week in Mach-II: A list of great blog posts by Mach-II users
Pater Farrell links ot some recent community posts.
Implementing a Custom Logger in Mach-II, Part 1
Mike Rogers wrote a custom logging module for Mach-II that will connect to IRC.
Implementing a Custom Logger in Mach-II, Part 2
Mike Rogers continues his tutorial on connecting Mach-II's logging to IRC.
Mach-II Deployment with Apache Ant
Another tutorial by Mike Rogers, this one shows how he deploys his Mach-II applications with Ant.
Using CKEditor with Mach-II and JQuery
Mike Rogers posts this tutorial for adding the CKEditor WYSIWYG to your Mach-II project.
Mach-II and Module Config Files
Brian Klaas continues his ongoing series about modules and, in this edition, discusses the module config file.
MXUnit
Data-Driven testing with MXUnit's DataProviders
Marc Esher covers how to use DataProviders to test multiple inputs for a single test function without boilerplate.
Transfer
Spying on ORM database interactions: Hibernate, Transfer, etc. on any CFML engine
Charlie Arehart shows multiple means of "spying" on your ORM.
Comments
Also, I was hoping that CFBarbecue was a CF wrapper around an actual Barbecue.
Posted By Bob Silverberg / Posted on 11/18/2009 at 11:01 AM