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ColdFusion Open-Source Update - November 4, 2009

Posted on Nov 04, 2009

Four new projects and four updates this week in ColdFusion open source. Sorry this post is a day late but my youngest caught a cold which, as you parents may know, means I haven't been sleeping well. I was literally falling asleep since 7pm last night. On a better note, after nearly giving up hope on both the Dolphins and Hurricanes seasons after the prior week, they both pulled out miraculous wins this past weekend. It'ss still an uphill battle to get to either the playoffs (for the Dolphins) or the ACC Championship (for the Hurricanes) but hope is still alive. Now, that you have my personal and sports related updates...what was this post about??? Oh yeah...

New Releases and Updates

New Project: Junior
Initial Release
This new project by Shayne Sweeney appears to be a framework inspired by Ruby's Sinatra.

New Project: miniwiki
miniwiki: a minimalist wiki
Oscar Arevalo created this very basic wiki application which uses reStructuredText as the syntax.

New Project: riaChart
Initial Release
Another project by Reinhard Jung, this one creates a pie chart of your RIAForge projects (I think) to post on your site.

New Project: Site-Deploy
Initial Release
Reinhard Jung posted this project which deploys your SQL statements for release management.

BlogCFC
BlogCFC 5.9.5
This post on the BlogCFC site lists some of the specific improvements in this update.

BlogCFC 5.9.5 Released (with video)
Raymond Camden updates his widely used blog software including a lot of jQuery love in the administration.

ColdFusion on Wheels
The Release Candidate Is Out: Wheels 1.0 RC1
Chris Peters posts about the first release candidate for CFWheels 1.0. While it doesn't have a ton of new features, it does have support for URL rewriting in IIS and subfolders under Apache and an improved plugin system.

Mura CMS
Mura CMS XSS Vulnerability Fix
The Blue River Interactive folks post some fixes to a medium level security risk in Mura.

Searcher
ColdFusion Administrator Extension - Searcher
Raymond Camden updates his ColdFusion Administrator extension for searching Verity collections to now work for Solr collections in CF9.

Announcements

CacheBox
CF on Wheels Plugin
Mike Henke took the sample code Isaac created and turned it into a plugin.

Cachebox
Transfer Integration (coming soon)
A quick post by Isaac Dealey saying he is working on Transfer integration.

Mango Blog
Blog Subscriber 2.2, New Site, Goals
Mel Williams updates updates his blog subscriber plugin to fix compatibility issers with recent upgrades to Mango.

New and (Much) Improved SyntaxHighlighter Plugin for Mango
Tony Garcia completely revamps his syntax highlighter plugin which now allows you to add code blocks directly into TinyMCE.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

CacheBox
Quick Start
Isaac Dealey posts a getting started tutorial for his cacheing engine.

ColdBox
Learning ColdBox: Coldbox Proxy How Cool is This!
Glyn Jackson shows how easy it was to use a ColdBox proxy to hook into a CFGrid.

ColdBox 3 Changes -- Look Out Interceptors
Aaron Greenlee posts an upgrade issue he encountered and how to fix it.

ColdFusion on Wheels
CFWheels and Git: Ignoring unpacked plugin directories
Tony Petruzzi posts a tip for working with Git and the CFWheels repository.

HomePortals, ColdBox
HomePortals/ColdBox Integration Revisited http://www.oscararevalo.com/index....
Oscar Arevalo revisits his post from last year about integrating HomePortals layout rendering into a ColdBox application.

JavaLoader
JavaLoader 1.0 / CFCDynamicProxy (I Think I am in Love)
Leigh posts his excitement over being able to use the Dynamic Proxy feature to work with libraries that require you to implement an interface.

Mango Blog
Five WordPress Plugins that should be Mango Plugins
Bret at Brice Cheddarn compiles a list of Wordpress plugins he would like to see ported.

Mura CMS
Adventures in Mura — Customizing a Site
Clarke Bishop documents his process for customizing a Mura install because of a lack of documentation.

Comments

FYI, the Aaron Lynch link "Mach-II, Event Chains, and You" is a post from 2006 that Adobe Feeds accidentally pulled in again. The concept Aaron discusses is probably better solved by using Mach-II subroutines which were introduced in Mach-II 1.5 about three years ago.

Posted By Peter / Posted on 11/04/2009 at 4:59 PM