ColdFusion Open-Source Update - June 9, 2008

New Releases and Updates

New Project: CF Groovy
CF Groovy
Barney Boisvert wrote a proof-of-concept to integrate Groovy into CF apps.

New Project: EnterpriseAppBlocks
Initial Release
This is described as a "set of administration screens to assist in making enterprise level ColdFusion applications."

New Project: iLearn
iLearn - New Open Source Learning Management System
Todd Sharp releases a stable Leaning Management System that he wrote for a client. It allows you to create classes and exams and more.

Quick iLearn Update
A small update with some minor modifications and SQL script to add the default roles and question types.

CFLib
CFLib 2008
Its been rumored longer than Duke Nukem Forever but CFlib 2K8 is finally a reality!

Mango Blog
Event Start Template
Mark Aplet created a template to help you not forget allt he events your template should announce.

POI Utility CFC
POI Utility Freeze Frames, Bug Fixes, And Branded Templates
Ben Nadel fixes some bugs and adds "freeze panes" as suggested by a user.

Seeker
Another Seeker Update
Ray Camden updates his Lucene-based search project.

Seeker, BlogCFC, Galleon, RIAForge
Uber Friday OS Report
Ray Camden released small updates to each of these projects and addresses ongoing issues with RIAForge.

Transfer
Transfer 1.0 Goes Gold!
You can stop your nagging, Transfer 1.0 is here including vegemite support! Ok, no vegemite support but it does include some big fixes which, while not as exciting, is probably more useful.

Transfer 1.0 is Gold (in more ways than one)
Ray likes Transfer and you like Ray, so therefore, you must like Transfer...end of debate.

Announcements

cfCommerce
cfCommerce on Twitter
You can follow cfCommerce updates via Twitter (when its up...that is).

Framework agnostic
Should cfCommerce be framework agnostic?

ColdBox
ColdBox now has Dreamweaver hints
Luis Majano announces the release of a dictionary for Dreamweaver with ColdBox hinting.

Mach-II
Team Mach-II Offers New Workshops - Take Our Survey
Peter Farrell discusses the successful workshops at cf.Objective that had 40 attendees and asks for input from the community on how to improve them even more.

Razuna
SixSigns announces support of the Railo engine for Razuna
When Six Signs releases their digital asset management application it will support Railo 3.1.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

AjaxCFC
Error "Invalid Reply from Server" when using AjaxCFC
Adrian Moreno discusses a common mistake in adding onRequest in Application.cfc when using Flex remoting or Ajax calls.

CFEasyMock
How I set up CFEasyMock
Marc Esher walks through setting up CFEasyMock with MXUnit.

ColdBox
CFunited 2008 Presentation Posted
Luis posted his upcoming presentation.

ColdSpring
Extending ColdSpring Through Custom Factory Beans
A detailed post on creating extensions to ColdSpring from Brian Kotek.

ColdSpring: Better living through configuration presentation
Mark Drew shares his presentation materials.

More on Extending ColdSpring: A Custom BeanFactory
Brian Kotek shows how he extended the DefaultXMLBeanFactory to integrate his XML utility.

Fusebox
Generating a Selenium Test Script from Fusebox 5.5 CFC circuit
Kevin Roche discusses how to automate getting fuseactions for your test script.

Mach-II
cfAjaxProxy and Mach-II
Sam Farmer offers this tutorial.

Model-Glue
Model Glue Event Security Using Broadcasts and Results
Paul Marcotte shows how to secure sections of your site easily in Model-Glue.

Transfer
Transfer ORM Event Model Examples - BeforeCreate and BeforeUpdate
Paul Marcotte posts (and then retracts, sort of) this tutorial.

10 Questions for Mark Mandel on Transfer ORM
Kay Smoljak interviews Mark Mandel for Sitepoint and being Australian, she never mentions his butchering of the word caching.