ColdFusion Open-Source Update - September 15, 2008

One new project and eight updates this week including the long awaited update to ColdSpring. On a more pressing topic, are the Miami Dolphins the worst football team to ever play the game, even worse than the Dolphins of last year. The Miami Herald says of this last game, "This wasn't just ugly and embarrassing. This was ugly and embarrassing by the standards set by the lowly Miami Dolphins of 2007." Based on the score, they were being kind. Oh, you came here for ColdFusion open source? Fine...

New Releases and Updates

New Project: CFEclipse Dictionary Generator
CFEclipse Dictionary Generator Released
Geoff Bowers posts about this project which generates an XML dictionary for CFEclipse based upon a directory of components and tags.

BlogCFC
Few quick notes (BlogCFC, TV, and a Textmate query)
Raymond Camden fixes a critical bug in BlogCFC.

CFImageCropper
Quick cfimagecropper update
Todd Sharp posts an update to his image cropper custom tag to fix some missing folders in the zip download on RIAForge.

cfUniForm
cfUniForm v2.3 - Optgroup Support and Other Feature Enhancements
Matt Quackenbush added optgroup support to his form tags.

ColdFire
ColdFire Update Released
Nathan Mische released an update to both the Firefox extension and the debugging template.

ColdSpring
New ColdSpring.org Site Launched
Rachel Lehman contributed the new site design for the ColdSpring Framework.

Truths and Lies: Big new from ColdSpring!!
Chris Scott announces the new version of ColdSpring and the new site.

Mach-II
Mach-II Dashboard Updated
Peter and Kurt have updated the look and feel and charts for the caching statistics.

OnTap Framework
FireLadder Scaffolding Tool Released!
Isaac Dealey released a scaffolding tool for the OnTap Framework that uses his DataFaucet ORM.

TransferSync
TransferSync v0.3 released
Tom De Manincor updates his JMS gateway that keeps Transfer's cache synchronized with some quick fixes and enhancements.

Announcements

ColdSpring
ColdSpring 1.2 Gold, and New ColdSpring Site
Brian Kotek has written a new quick start guide for ColdSpring 1.2.

cwBlog
cwBlog: Initial Thoughts
Francois Levesque posts his initial thoughts on the architecture of his new blog software.

Mach-II
CFC Primer Parts 3, 4 and 5 Published
The remaining parts to Matt Woodward's CFC primer have been posted.

What's New in Mach-II 1.6 Quickstart Available
Peter Farrell posts about a new quickstart guide.

Mango Blog
Related Entries plugin for Mango Blog
Adam Tuttle, the new king of Mango plugins, created this one that lists related entries below each post.

MangoBlog Plugin: TinyMCE Manager
Stephen Moretti wrote this plugin after getting frustrated with code display in TinyMCE.

Model-Glue
New Model Glue 3 Feature: copyToScope()
Dan Wilson posts about this new feature which makes it easier to pull variables out of the event scope and place them into another scope.

OnTap Framework
Framework Survey
Isaac Dealey wants people's opinion on frameworks, not specifically OnTap users.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

CF Groovy
CF Groovy Preso at BarneyBlog
Barney Boisvert posts the recording and materials from his presentation to the PDX RIA group.

cfUniForm
For the Love of Chocolate, Style Your Optgroup!
Paul Marcotte quickly shows how to modify the default optgroup style.

ColdBox
Blogging My Experiences with ColdBox
Jason Dean starts off his series with a disclaimer and some discussion about what he intends to do with the series.

ColdFire
Experiment in Tweaking ColdFire (for MS SQL)
This post shows how to customize certain aspects of ColdFire.

ColdSpring
When to use autowiring in ColdSpring
Steve Brownlee discusses when to use autowiring rather than how to use it.

Fusebox
How to Drive Fusebox 5.5 - Book Review
Niall O'Doherty reviews Jeff Peters new Fusebox book from Proton Arts.

Model-Glue
Transfer, Model-Glue and makeEventBean()
Scott Stroz posts about using the makeEventBean method with Transfer.

MXUnit
Some Benefits of Unit Testing
Bob Silverberg talks about MXUnit, a discussion with Paul Marcotte and making inroads with TDD in a corporate culture.

Transfer
Get Objects from Transfer by Table Name
I wrote about trying to get Transfer objects by table name.

CFConversations 15, Interview 10 - Mark Mandel - 09/14/08
Dan Wilson interviews Mark Mandel.