ColdFusion Open-Source Update - October 13, 2009
Four new projects and five updates this week in ColdFusion open-source. It was a busy week. Nonetheless, if I develop carpal tunnel syndrome, I blame Luis Majano! Therefore, as of this week I am instituting a post summary surcharge of $9.99 per post over any open source developers quota of 2 posts per week. This surcharge will be placed into a fund to pay for all new ergonomic equipment for me to type these updates (plus an assortment of video games to keep me happy). My initial estimate is that Luis owed me $39.96 for this week alone. Please make checks payable to me, personally. Thanks. (yes, of course I am kidding)
New Releases and Updates
New Project: CFShell
CFShell 0.2: Even More CLI Goodness for CFML Servers
This update by Oscar Arevalo focuses on making the application behave more like a standard command line tool.
CFShell: A command line interface for CFML engines
Oscar Arevalo released an application written in Python with a ColdFusion script to receive commands that acts as a command line for CFML.
New Project: Hyrule
Initial Release
Dan Vega releases his own validation framework based upon annotations.
New Project: Spellify for Coldfusion
Spellify for Coldfusion V1.0 Released
James Allen created a textarea spellchecker implementation of Spellify.
New Project: trac-cfc
Initial Release
Eric Erickson wrote this component to interface Trac and ColdFusion.
ColdBox
ColdBox ColdFusion Builder Extensions Released v1.1 http://blog.coldboxframe...
This version of the extensions adds a long list of features.
ColdBox ColdFusion Builder Extensions v1.2 Released
Luis Majano announces an update to the ColdFusion Builder extensions that fixes some issues with security configuration and some more features for persistence.
ColdBox 3.0.0 Beta 2 Released!
Luis Majano announces the release of beta 2 that closes a very long list of open tickets.
ColdBox 3.0.0 Beta 2 Updated, Critical Fixes
Luis Majano posts some critical fixes to the beta for cache related issues.
FW/1
FW/1 - Framework One Updated
Sean Corfield posts about some recent updates to his framework that are mostly bug fixes.
LogBox
LogBox RC 2 Release!
Luis Majano announces some updates to his logging framework to make programmatic configuration more flexible.
MockBox
MockBox RC 1 Release!
Luis Majano released a new release candidate of his mocking framework.
Railo Ajax
Railo Ajax 0.5.1.4
Andrea Campolonghi adds support for additional functions.
Announcements
ColdFusion on Wheels
Screencasts Are Back
A new section to the CFWheels site includes screencasts which show building a social networking site as a sample application.
Wheels is only a hammer
Chris Peters admits to trying to solve a problem via Wheels that could be better solved via another solution.
LightFront
LightFront: The incredibly simple & approachable MVC Framework for ColdFusion
Brian Meloche shares the details about his lightweight, conventions-based MVC framework that he released on RIAForge last week.
Mach-II
Proposed License Change for Mach-II 1.8
The Mach-II team is considering moving from the Apache license to GPLv3 with a classpath exception.
Team Mach-II Meeting Notes - 9/29/2009
Team Mach-II posts their meeting notes in an effort to remain as open as possible.
onTap Framework
Fusebox Importer Plugin
Isaac Dealey wrote an importer for Fusebox applications to convert them to onTap.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
CFGroovy
CFYourFavoriteJVMLanguage
Barney Boisvert shows how using CFGroovy2 you can plug any JSR-223 scripting language into ColdFusion.
ColdBox
ColdBox: A Very Active Framework
Aaron Greenlee discusses how impressed he is with the code and documentation updates on ColdBox.
FarCry
Farcry Navigation Move Permissions
Jake Churchill shows how to stop contibutors from being allowed to reorder navigational nodes.
Mango Blog
Creating a Mango Blog Theme
Benedict Lowndes documents his process for creating his first Mango theme.
CF9 Doesn't Like Mango Blog
Sami Hoda discusses a number of incompatibilities between Mango Blog and ColdFusion 9.
Model-Glue
Ask Model-Glue: Beans Scope
Dan Wilson answers a question from John C. Bland.
MXUnit
Writing Flex and ColdFusion apps? MXUnit FTW!
Joe Rinehart promotes the usefulness of unit testing your applications.
Transfer
Troubles with Transfer ORM on Railo 3.1.1.012? http://www.kisdigital.com/ind...
Shane Zehnder discusses a change in Railo that caused Transfer not to work and how to fix it.
