ColdFusion Open-Source Update - September 8, 2010
Posted on Sep 08, 2010
Four new projects and three updates this week (or so) in ColdFusion open source. Summer’s unofficially over and school is back in session. Football is back (college is what I really care about) and baseball is coming to a disappointing end (at least if you like the Red Sox). As you stare at the leaves that show the first signs of changing color, you might wonder, what does any of this have to do with ColdFusion and open source? Nothing.
New Releases and Updates
New Project: CFConsole
ColdFusion from a Console
Terrence Ryan created an AIR application that acts as a console as well as an event gateway that let's you run ColdFusion from the actual command line console.
New Project: cfmljure
cfmljure - using Clojure from CFML
Sean Corfield created this project to allow you to run Clojure scripts in CFML without having to compile and deploy them.
cfmljure and Leiningen
Sean Corfield updates his library for loading Clojure scripts to include support for the Leiningen build tool.
New Project: dbDiscover
Initial Release
Created by Paul Day, dbDiscover is a web-based SQL server management tool built with ColdFusion and jQuery.
New Project: dropBoxCFC
dropBoxCFC - DropBox API
Kev McCabe created this component to interact with the Dropbox API.
CfTracker
CfTracker 2.1 final, released
David Boyer released version 2.1 including Railo support, expanded statistics, dashboard improvements and more.
DataMgr
DataMgr 2.5 Beta 1
Steve Bryant updates his DataMgr library with a new beta (a year after the alpha) including paging enhancements, performance improvements and more.
FW/1
FW/1 1.2 RC1 available
Sean Corfield notes that all the fixes for Framework One version 1.2 are in Github.
Announcements
DI/1
Open Source: RTW or Collaboration?
Sean Corfield discusses some conversations that have formed around his DI/1 dependency injection framework he is building that are concerned he is reinventing the wheel.
FarCry
FarCry 6.0 Contributor Guide Released
Geoff Bowers posts that Daemon is releasing a FarCry contributor training course under the Creative Commons license.
Tracking development activity in the FarCry Community
Geoff Bowers shares how to follow commits to the FarCry community projects that interest you.
General
Open Source Obstacles
John Farrar discusses how documentation is often the biggest obstacle facing an open source project.
Mach-II
Free* One Day of Mach-II Training at BFusion - 9/11/20 in Bloomington, IN
If you can make it to Bloomington for the BFusion conference, you can get Mach-II training included in the registration price - but registration ends tomorrow, so hurry!
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
ColdBox
My First ColdBox ORM Setup
Glyn Jackson shares the first post covering his experiences getting ColdFusion 9's ORM functionality working wit ColdBox.
Dear ColdBox
Glyn Jackson thanks the ColdBox community for their help on the forums and commits to documenting his experiences with the framework.
ColdBox 3 MailService
Josh Whish posts an example of the ColdBox mailservice in use.
ColdMVC
Creating a LESS CSS Plugin for ColdMVC
Tony Nelson shows how to use the LESS CSS framework as a plugin within his ColdMVC framework.
FarCry
Indexing what you want with Verity Plugin
Geoff Bowers shows how you can override what content you want indexed using the FarCry Verity plugin.
FiLEX
Coldfusion / Flex File Manager with TinyMCE
Janusz Buda used his FiLEX project as the custom file manager inside TinyMCE.
Mango Blog
Broadcasting your own events (from plugins) in Mango
Adam Tuttle shows how to broadcast your own custom events inside a Mango plugin that other plugins could potentially respond to.
Mura CMS
Adding Custom CSS Style Options to the Mura CMS Content Editor Toolbar
Stephen Withington shows how to add custom CSS styles the the WYSIWYG editor in Mura.
Mura CMS lab work: extended attributes as a custom data repository
Grant Shepert shows something "experimental" and just added to the Mura core which allows you to use extended attributes as a data repository for a plugin.
Comments
Posted By Raymond Camden / Posted on 09/08/2010 at 8:15 AM
Posted By David Boyer / Posted on 09/08/2010 at 8:25 AM
Posted By Glyn Jackson / Posted on 09/23/2010 at 10:45 AM