ColdFusion Open-Source Update - October 20, 2008

One new project and four updates this week. I have been busily working this week getting Flex Camp Boston 2008 planned. We have already lined up a handful of top notch Flex and AIR speakers and registration should open very soon, so keep watching this blog if you are interested in attending. In the ColdFusion open-source world, we had a ton of extensive tutorials this week.

New Releases and Updates

New Project: Kabunto
Kabunto - Open Source Forum Software, Free, multi-lingual, supported
Kabunto is the open source, multi-lingual forum application by Six Signs that is designed to be extensible.

ColdFire
ColdFire 1.2.95.95
Nathan Mische posts about the latest bug fix release.

Lighthouse Pro, Kuler CFC
Lighthouse Pro 2.5 Out the Door (Kuler, YouTube News too...)
Raymond Camden put Lighthouse Pro 2.5 on RIAForge and updated his Kuler CFC for the updated API.

SpoolMail
SpoolMail, ColdFire Updates
Ray Camden updates SpoolMail with some user contributed ehancements.

Transfer
Transfer 1.1 has compelling features
Dan Wilson is impressed with the new features in Transfer 1.1.

Transfer 1.1 Final Released
Mark Mandel talks about the new features in his latest release which includes huge performance gains.

Announcements

ColdBox
Welcome to our new blog
ColdBox has a new blog powered by Mango.

ModelGlue
ModelGlue wants to hear from You!
The ModelGlue team is conducting a survey.

Razuna
Forums for Razuna and our other open source applications available
Six Signs has started forums for their open-source applications.

ValidateThis!
ValidateThis! - Less Verbose XML
Bob Siverberg made the XML for his validation framework less verbose.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

CFFormProtect
Comment Spam Reduced to 0 - The No-Dans Club
Dan Wilson is very impressed by the effectiveness of Jake Munson's CFFormProtect.

Coldbox
Coldbox Framework and Ajax: cfajaxproxy
Clint Willard shows how to use cfajaxproxy within the ColdBox framework.

Coldbox, ColdSpring, Transfer
Coldbox, ColdSpring, Transfer, Refactoring And Me (part 2)
Part 2 of Francois Levesque's tutorial.

Coldbox, ColdSpring, Transfer, Refactoring And Me (part 1)
Francois Levesque discusses trying new technologies while developing his cwBlog application.

ColdFusion on Wheels
Creating Custom URLs in Your Wheels App with Routes
Chris Peters documents a feature called routes which functions like URL rewriting.

ColdSpring
Breaking up my Coldspring.xml file
Bill shows how to split up the configuration XML.

Files for my ColdSpring talk
Tom Chiverton posts the slides, example code and recording for his ColdSpring presentation.

Coldspring
Coldspring - Config Bean Inheritance
Bill posts a way to have inheritence in a ColdSpring configuration bean.

ColdSpring
Generic ColdSpring Gateway Service Code
This tutorial shows how to pass a unit of work to be processed by your ColdSpring model asynchronously.

DataFaucet
Nice Surprise
Isaac Dealey posts the recording for his talk to the online ColdFusion Meetup group.

FarCry
FarCry 5 Jump Start Course Released
Geoff Bowers posts that Daemon releases a new two day course about getting started with FarCry.

General (Frameworks)
CFConversations 19, Roundtable 6 - 10/19/08 - The first in a series on framew...
A roundtable discussion of ColdFusion frameworks.

General (ORM Frameworks)
ORM Tools : Where FarCry Meets DataMgr
Isaac Dealey talks about the various ORM (or ORM-like) tools for ColdFusion.

General (Unit Testing Frameworks)
CF Unit Testing - CFUnit, CFCUnit, and MxUnit Part 1
Bill is comparing the ColdFusion unit testing frameworks.

MxUnit
Setting Up MxUnit, Ant, and CruiseControl
Bill offers this extensive tutorial.

MxUnit and CruiseControl on Separate Machines
Bill tries to get Cruise Control working for continuous integration.

EditPlus and MxUnit Tests Directory Testing Tool
Bill shows how to use EditPlus to fire of a directory of MXUnit unit tests.

EditPlus with MxUnit Tests User Tool
Bill shows a quick way to launch a specific MXUnit unit test file within EditPlus.

Get CruiseControl to Read Your MxUnit Test Results
Bill shows how to get unit test results to show in CruiseControl.

TransferSync
Synchronizing Transfer ORM in a Model-Glue/Coldspring cluster with TransferSync
Brian Ghidinelli offers this 'how to' for using Tom De Manincor's project to synchronize Transfer in a cluster.

ValidateThis!
ValidateThis! - Server Side Validation Architecture
Bob Silverberg shows us what is under the hood of his validation framework.

ValidateThis! - Let's Talk Metadata
Bob Silverberg defines the metadata necessary to use his validation framework.