ColdFusion Open-Source Update - September 29, 2009

Posted on Sep 29, 2009

Two new releases and seven ColdFusion open-source updates this week. Another late night as this was a very busy week of posts. MAX is right around the corner and I am expecting some exciting announcements...and could there be a product or two released? How about nine? Just making an educated guess...

New Releases and Updates

New Project: CFTunes
Initial Release
Bhakti Pingale posted this application which says it uses CF9 anf is for music lovers.

New Project: cfUpdater
cfUpdater - CF Update Manager
John Mason posts a new project that is an admin extension for handling and managing updates.

BugLogHQ
BugLogHQ 1.4 is now available
Oscar Arevalo released a new version of his bug tracker including simplified settings, asynchronous reports and rules, and much more.

CacheBox
Plugin Manager Fix and CacheBox Update
Isaac Dealey fixed an issue that was causing a problem with the upgrade install.

CFGroovy2
Custom Scopes for CFGroovy2
Barney Boisvert posts about a change that allows you to pass in an arbitrary number of scopes.

CFGroovy2 and Ehcache
Barney Boisvert plugged in Ehcache as an optional caching backend.

CFYahoo
CFYahoo Updated
Raymond Camden updates his Yahoo API package to accomodate some changed API's.

Model-Glue
Model Glue:Gesture - Version 3.1 Available
Dan Wilson announces an update that is primarily a maintenance release.

Mura
Mura Adds an Auto-Updater
Blue River Interactive posts to Twitter about a new version of Mura with a new auto updater for Mura core files as well a Site specific file.

Switchboard Framework
Various Updates - Version 0.9.7
Daniel Slaughter posts that he added error page capabilities, limited text output to view pages only and more.

Announcements

ColdBox
Tom de Manincor : ColdBox Certified Trainer for Europe
Tom de Manincor has become the first ColdBox Certified Trainer.

ColdBox Case Studies
Luis Majano is looking for people/companies willing to fill out a case study questionnaire.

ColdFusion on Wheels
Welcome James Gibson to the Core Team http://www.cfwheels.org/blog/index.cfm...
Chris Peters announces that James Gibson has been to the Wheels team.

Wheels 1.0 iscoming
Tony Petruzzi talks briefly about the impending Wheels release.

See who's using CFWheels
Mike Henke posts a link that lists companies and sites using CFWheels.

ColdPress
ColdPress Data Model Chosen
Justin posts that he decided to adopt DataMgr for data persistence in his blog engine.

DataMgr
DataMgr is Better than ColdFusion ORM
Steve Bryant argues that his DataMgr offers a better alternative to solving data-persistence than the CF9 ORM.

General Frameworks
CFML Framework Skeletons – Eclipse Plugin
Robert Burns created an Eclipse plugin for framework skeletons, includoing ColdBox, Fusebox, Mach-II and Model-Glue.

Model-Glue
Want to learn ModelGlue….for (nearly) free?
Dan Skaggs announces that Dan Wilson will be giving a full-day Model-Glue training at BFusion in Bloomington.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

BouceDetector, ColdSpring
Using BounceDetector without Coldspring
Brian Ghidinelli explains how to use his BouceDetector without ColdSpring.

BugLogHQ
Creating Your Own Alert Rules For BugLogHQ
Oscar Arevalo posts a tutorial on how to create rules within his bug tracker.

ColdFusion on Wheels
CFWheels so you wanna series translated into Italian
Mike Henke's series is being translated into Italian.

Lightwire
Lightwire import node support
John Whish shows how you can add the ability to import external configurations into the main configuration file.

Mango Blog
Mango Blog Skinning Start to Finish
Charlie Arehart posts the recording URL for the ColdFusion Online Meetup Group, "Mango Blog Skinning Start to Finish" with Sidney Maestre.

Model-Glue
Model-Glue 3 Features Video
Dan Wilson posts a presentation recording of his presentation to the CFMeetup.

Model Glue - Variable CTRLINST is undefined
This post shares an issue the user was having in developing his Model-Glue application.

Model-Glue, ColdSpring
Splitting up your ColdSpring.xml file in a Model-Glue Application
Raymond Camden shows how to split up the ColdSpring bean configuration within a Model-Glue application.

Mura CMS
9/25/2009 - Show #23 - Mura CMS Interview
The CFHour podcast interviews Matt Levine and Sean Schroeder of Blue River Interactive.

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