ColdFusion Open-Source Update - November 3, 2008

Two new releases and two updates this week. I have been working hard on this end planning this year's Flex Camp Boston. One thing that surprised me last year is how many people came from out of New England to attend this event. I plan on looking into this more, but considering that December is not peak season for flights to Boston, I found you can come and stay fairly cheaply and get a full day of networking and training in for a few hundred bucks, all told. Considering that we will have some of the same top notch speakers you can find at MAX, I think that's a pretty good deal. Anyway, enough promoting of my event, on to ColdFusion open source...

New Releases and Updates

New Project: (I want my) MTV CFC
Initial Release
Matt Gifford created this CFC to integrate the MTV Network API.

New Project: Manage Bounced Emails (MBE)
Initial Release
Mamdoh Alhabeeb created this project to remove bounced emails from an email list.

ColdFusion on Wheels
Wheels 0.8.3: Our Final Beta Release?
Chris Peters announces that this release adds support for Railo Express 3.0 as well as some bug fixes.

DataFaucet
New DataFaucet ORM Build Nov 2
Isaac Dealey posts a new build that fixes some bugs and enhances the member plugin.

New DataFaucet ORM Build - added iterator CFC
Isaac Dealey fixes some bugs in his recent ORM build.

Announcements

ColdBox
JS Calendar - ColdBox
Ernst van der Linden created this plugin for the Dynarch calendar.

ColdBox at ColdFusion Camp 2008 Munich
Luis Majano will be presenting ColdBox to this conference in Germany.

ColdFusion on Wheels
New Documentation: Sending Files
Documentation on Wheels sendFile() function.

Mango Blog
Woopra plugin for Mango
Seb Duggan creates this plugin for Woopra tracking and analytics.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

ColdBox
Adding Todo Lists - ColdBox Series Part 8a
Jason Dean continues his tutorial series by looking at building views and handlers.

A Simple CFImage CAPTCHA Plugin for ColdBox
Tony Garcia shows the CAPTCHA plugin using cfimage that he discussed in his presentation to the Boston CFUG.

ColdBox,Lightwire
Design Patterns And Framework We've Chosen: ColdBox, DI, and IBO
Brad Wood posts about his choices for frameworks and patterns he intends to use going forward.

Fusebox
Release of Upgrade Path for Legacy Fusebox
Isaac Dealey offers some code to show how to upgrade a Fusebox 3 application to Fusebox 5.

General (Frameworks)
Using Frameworks? - 2 JVM Changes to Rock Your World
Sami Hoda shows some JVM tuning that he recommends particularly if you are using a ColdFusion framework.

Model-Glue
Handling a slow process in a Model-Glue (or other MVC) application
Raymond Camden offers some suggestions on how to handle slow running processes within an MVC application.