ColdFusion Open-Source Update - September 8, 2008

Two new projects and four updates this week. A very quiet week with only a handful of posts to report on. Perhaps everyone was preparing for the opening of the NFL season. My Dolphins still stink but not as putridly (which would have been an accomplishment). Though with Tom Brady apparently out for the season, the AFC East is guaranteed to be won by team that is, at best, mediocre. Anyway, though I am sure you came to my site for its highly regarded sports commentary, I am obligated to give you some ColdFusion open-source news...

New Releases and Updates

New Project: Dom CFC
Initial Release
Lucas Moellers wrote this CFC to convert HTML to XML and manipulating nodes.

New Project: Google Contacts Wrapper
Google Contacts Wrapper
Raymond Camden wrote component that can retrieve contacts and groups from your Google account.

cfUniForm
cfUniForm v2.2 - Firefox 3 Update
Matt Quackenbush updates his project with a fix for an issue with jQuery and FF3.

CodeCop, sebtags
sebtags 1.0 RC2 for ColdFusion 8.01
Steve Bryant has corrected a ColdFusion 8.0.1 incompatibility.

MXUnit
MXUnit Eclipse Plugin Test History Feature
Marc Esher writes about a new feature of the Eclpse plugin that records the history of your test runs.

WhosOnCFC
Shane's ramblings: WhosOnCFCDB is Officially an RIAForge Project
Shane Zehdner posted the database version of his project on RIAForge.

WhosOnCFCDB 0.90b Available on RIAForge
Shane Zehnder has released an new version of his project that has a database back-end and uses Transfer.

Announcements

cwBlog
Announcing cwBlog!
Francois Levesque is writing his own blog engine.

Fusebox
Fusebox in Java??
Adam Haskell contemplates writing all or a portion of Fusebox in Java.

Fusebox 5.5 Documentation
Adam Haskell notes some additional documentation sources that people may not be aware of.

Mach-II
CFC Primer Parts 1 and 2 Published
Matt Woodward has added two CFC primers to its quickstart documentation.

Model-Glue
Announcing Model-Glue Training in October
Doug Hughes and Alagad announce another Model-Glue training in Raleigh in October.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

MXUnit
Designing for testability: today's real-world example
Marc Esher offers this tutorial.

Transfer
Hibernate and Inheritance
Sean Corfield compares some features that exist in Hibernate that aren't yet available in Transfer.