ColdFusion Open-Source Update - February 23, 2009

Five new projects and seven updates in this very busy week. I have been so focused on the upcoming Flex Camp Miami that I had let a rewrite of my open source list languish a bit. It is now built with Flex and while it may not offer much more in the way of functionality, it finally fixes the issues in IE that were caused by the Ajax tab code in cftab. I also rewrote the admin so that maybe I will update it more often, though I have a lot of catching up to do.

New Releases and Updates

New Project: CFObjectCache
Initial Release
Andrew Myers created another caching solution for ColdFusion that handles caching both HTML and complex objects.

New Project: ColdFusion Collection Framework
Initial Release
Christian Constantini posted this project for better managing arrays and structures in ColdFusion.

New Project: SQLSurfer
The SQLSurfer build process
Nathan Strutz discusses the interesting build process he uses for his SQL Surfer project, which is available through SVN.

New Project: userLove
Initial Release
Lars Gronholt posted this project to handle trapping URL and form submissions by users whose sessions have expired allowing you to handle allowing them to log back in without losing their data.

New Project: VAPOR-WARE
Initial Release
Sid Wing built this complex sounding project which, combined with some hardware requirements, can share files between two separate networks.

cfUniForm
cfUniForm v3.0 - Complete Update Bringing Support
Matt Quackenbush updates his project including the new Uni-Form markup and new versions of jQuery as well as changes to the internal mechanics of the project.

Holy Cow! Two Updates in One Day!
Matt Quackenbush updated the project again with the jQuery version released just after his previous post.

GoogleDocs CFC
GoogleDocs CFC
Raymond Camden updates his Google Documents API wrapper and gripes about Google's API's.

Last.fm Api
Initial Release
Dominic Watson wrote this component which wraps the entire Last.fm API.

Mach-II
Making Mach-II development a snap -- download the Dashboard | Mach-II
Peter Farrell announces that Mach-II now includes a dashboard that can assist with many common tasks such as reloading pages, modules or ColdSpring bean factories, manage logging, manage caching and much more.

Razuna
Razuna 1.1.4 is here
Nitai at SixSigns announces the new version of his digital asset management system which includes new features like folder permissions, IE compatibility and more.

Update for Razuna 1.1.4
Nitai at SixSigns posts a bug fix update to the very recent release of Razuna.

SalesForceCFC
SalesForceCFC gets a BIG update!
Tom DeManincor updates his SalesForce API component with some performance improvements and new features.

SpamFilter
SpamFilter 1.1
Steve Bryant updates his project with new spam filters and code to leverage DataMgr 2.2 functionality.

Announcements

(What is on) BBC CFC
(What is on) BBC CFC
Matt Gifford posts about his BBC API wrapper which I discussed last week.

BlogCFC
BlogCFC - Free ColdFusion Blog: Calling for Testimonials
Dan Vega posts that the BlogCFC team is looking for testimonials to post to its new site, which is forthcoming.

cfUniForm
cfUniForm - FAQs and Request for Live Examples
Matt Quackenbush added an FAQ page to the documentation and posts call for demo submissions.

cfUniForm - Snippets For CFEclipse
Matt Quackenbush now includes some CFEclipe snippets with his form building project.

Mach-II
Team Mach-II Slashes Its Prices for Pre-Conference Workshops at cf.Objective(...
Peter Farrell announces that this year's pre-conference workshop training is now significantly cheaper than last years.

Call for Features - Help Steer Mach-II 1.8!
Peter Farrell talks about the ways you can contribute and/or offer feedback about the next version of Mach-II.

Project Update:Tweets, New Developers Group & Using the Wiki
Peter Farrell posts about ways to get news and help about Mach-II.

Mango Blog
We want to hear from you
Laura Arguello posts about a new page to submit feedback and ideas about Mango Blog.

Comment moderation plugin
Laura Arguello created this plugin which will add a comment moderation feature to Mango.

Razuna
Razuna Beta Invitation: Still 50 slots open
Nitai at SixSigns has expanded the beta program and has (or had) 50 slots open...better hurry.

WhosOnCFC
Running WhosOnCFC Under Railo
Shane Zehnder ran into an issue running his project on Railo which has been corrected and should be updated soon.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

FarCry
FarCry 5.1 and the Ionic ISAPI rewrite filter for friendly
Matthew Williams shows how you can get FarCry working with the Ionic filter for URL rewriting.

Galleon
Galleon Forums Installed
Daniel Short discusses how he added single sign on ability to Galleon to integrate with his existing site users system.

General (Unit Testing)
TDD, BDD, Unit Testing, Top-Down, Bottom-Up, Wus Up?
Bill Shelton explains all the talk lately about processes and techniques when it comes to testing.

Mango Blog
Everything you need to know about Mango pods – Part 1: Simple Template Pods
Adam Tuttle begins this tutorial series with a post about creating simple pods in Mango Blog.

Laura Arguello on Mate, Mango and Flex Camp Miami
I interview Laura Arguello of ASFusion about her upcoming presentation to my Flex Camp and we touch on the next version of Mango Blog which is coming soon.

QueryParam Scanner
Developer Toolbox: QueryParam Scanner
Jim Priest posts this testimonial about Peter Boughton's QueryParam Scanner project.

Razuna
Getting Razuna DAM up and running under Ubuntu
Nitai posts a video about installing Razuna on Ubuntu.