ColdFusion Open-Source Update - July 22, 2008
Five new projects and three updates this week plus no less than nine Transfer related posts...eesh. Sorry this post is a little late but I was sick once again. I wish I could say that it was due to a weekend of heavy partying but alas I haven't partied that hard in many, many years. This week was a busy week, with some very interesting new projects. In particular, Razuna is another in a growing number of POSS projects in ColdFusion and sounds interesting.
New Releases and Updates
New Project: cfUniForm
cfUniForm New Release - v2.1
Matt Quackenbush updated his forms custom tag library.
cfUniForm Now on RIAForge
Matt Quackenbush has posted his Uni-Form markup forms library to RIAForge.
New Project: CFXL
Modify Excel Spreadsheets! CFXL Released to RIAForge
ColdFusion product manager, Jason Delmore, released this project that lets you programatically modify Excel spreadsheets on-the-fly and stream the changes to the browser.
New Project: Razuna
Razuna 1.0 released
SixSigns has released version 1.0 of their digital asset management system which was once a commercial product. The system also includes an integrated CMS.
New Project: Shade
Initial Release
Ryan Wood has released what he describes as a "state machine (or workflow) engine for ColdFusion business objects."
New Project: Vimeo ColdFusion wrapper
Vimeo ColdFusion wrapper
Raymond Camden has wrapped the Vimeo API.
ColdBox
ColdBox 2.6.0 Final Release is now available.
Luis Majano posts that version 2.6.0 is final and available. A full list of new features is available in the What's New Guide.
ColdFire
newschuyl: ColdFire Update for FF 3.0.1
Nathan Mische posts an update for compatibility with all FireFox 3.0.* versions.
PDFUtils, ColdFire, BlogCFC
Software Updates (before I go - go)
Raymond Camden updated several of his projects including XMP support in pdfUtils and checked an update of BlogCFC into Subversion.
Announcements
ColdBox
ColdBox Eclipse Help Plugins Updated
Luis Majano posts that the Eclipse plugin has been updated to reflect the latest API and documentation.
Mango Blog
Site for Autism Walk Team is Mango Powered (with CF4em)
Tony Garcia launched an Autism related site using Mango as a quick and easy CMS.
Razuna
Presenting Razuna and Roozani at Techcrunch Zurich Meetup
SixSigns presented Razuna digital asset management to the TechCrunch meetup in Zurich.
WhosOnCFC
Early WhosOnCFC 2.2.0 Alpha Released to Testers
Shane Zehnder has sent a an alpha of the next version to a select group of testers.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
ColdBox
Luis Majano on ColdBox Presentation Recording
Luis Majano presented an introduction to ColdBox to the Boston CFUG.
ColdBox at the Boston CFUG
Luis Majano posts about his Boston CFUG presentation.
ColdBox Reaches 2.6 Final Release
Matt Quackenbush posts about his favorite new features in ColdBox 2.6.0.
ColdSpring
ColdSpring Low-Fat Double Inner-Bean Latte
Steve Brownlee posts about some methods for reducing the size of your ColdSpring config file.
ColdSpring, ColdMock, MXUnit
My IECFUG Presentation Recording and Files
Brian Kotek's presentation materials and recording.
FarCry
FarCry CMS 5.0 Install and Configuration - My Firsthand Experience
Vincent Collins reviews the installation and configuration of FarCry 5.
General
Contributing to OSS
Nathan Mische discusses some thoughts on the various ways you can contribute to projects you use and how you can gain from the experience.
Mach-II
New Mach-II Wiki Outlining The Config File
Will Tomlinson posts about a new wiki lanched by Brian Fitzgerald.
Model-Glue
Adventures in Model Glue - Redirecting to an anchor link
Paul posts a problem in Model-Glue and what he calls a "hack" solution.
MXUnit
MX Unit is Slick
Barney Boisvert is impressed by MXunit and posts his thoughts.
No MXUnit For Railo
Barney Boisvert laments the lack of Railo support for MXUnit and Bill Shelton comments that they are currently working on it.
Transfer
How I Use Transfer - Part VIII - My Abstract...
More of Bob Silverberg's series.
Error: Element SYSTEM is undefined in INSTANCE - Transfer?
Nick Tong posts about a common mistake when upgrading Transfer.
How I Use Transfer - Part VII - A Concrete Gateway Object
Bob Silverberg continues his comprehensive series.
Managing the Transfer Cache with Clones
Dan (last name?) posts this tutorial about using the clone method to keep changes to an object out of the cache until it is saved.
Building the Code Scanner Using ColdBox/Transfer
Will Tomlinson wants to rewrite his code scanner tool with ColdBox and Transfer.
Why I’d Like To Make The Sexy With Transfer
Will Tomlinson wants to get it on with Transfer.
Transfer and Coldbox? Holy Moly!
Will Tomlinson teases about what he plans as a series of posts.
Transfer ORM and Flex
Ben (last name?) has posted about how he uses Transfer and my Illudium PU-36 Code Generator with Flex (and Cairngorm it appears).
Transfer: Incrementing IDs an Oooops
Matt Quackenbush discusses handling incrmenting IDs.
