ColdFusion Open Source Update - March 4, 2010

Six new projects and ten updates this week in ColdFusion open source. This was another massive week of updates, announcements and tutorials. For example, Alagad released a number of new and existing projects to RIAForge this week, pushing the site above the 900 project mark (though not all are ColdFusion, a good percentage are). On a related side note, I will be phasing out the open source list (not the update) when I finally launch my new site design which I've been slowly finding time to finish. Its tough with this constant amount of releases to keep up and the list format doesn't work very well for this many projects. I do plan to continue these weekly updates for the foreseeable future however.

New Releases and Updates

New Project: ColdBooks, IMAP Watcher Event Gateway, SNMP Event Gateway
Three new Open Source Alagad Projects for IMAP, SNMP and QuickBooks
Doug Hughes posts that Alagad has open sourced a bunch of code including ColdBooks to connect ColdFusion with Quickbooks, an IMAP watcher event gateway and an SNMP event gateway.

New Project: ColdFusion File Manager
Initial Release
Cristian Constantini created this Ajax-based GUI for managing files on the server.

New Project: Google Translation API CFC
Initial Release
Terry Ryan released this component for working with the Google Translation API.

New Project: SeleniumMX
SeleniumMX - A Selenium + MxUnit Framework
Bill Rawlinson created this framework to simplify working Selenium and MXUnit.

Amazon S3 CFC
Public URLs via Amazon S3 CFC
Barney Boisvert added a minor update to his S3 component to support putting public objects.

cfUniForm
cfUniForm v.4.0 - Leaner, Meaner, More Features - Just Plain Ol' Better
Matt Quackenbush announces the newest version of his form building framework including improved support for global configuration, full Ajax support and an updated datepicker plugin.

CFYahoo
Small bug fixes
No post for this one as it was direct from Ray but he says this includes continued updates to newest YDN APIs.

ColdDoc
ColdDoc 1.0 Alpha Released
Mark Mandel refactored ColdDoc to allow it to generate documentation based upon an arbitrary template strategy.

Galleon
Small bug fixes
So no actual post on this one, but Ray Camden informed me of this update.

Homeportals, ColdBricks
Available Update for HomePortals and ColdBricks
Oscar Arevalo posted new versions of his framework and portal management including a new CMS plugin for HomePortals.

Lightwire
Confirmed bug in lightwire in xml placeholder code
Peter Bell has confirmed and fixed the bug found earlier by John Whish.

Mach-II
Mach-II 1.9
Matt Woodward announces milestone 1 of Mach-II 1.9 "Integrity" which is focused on adding validation capabilities to the framework.

Model-Glue
Model Glue 3.1 Release Candidate Available Now
Dan Wilson announces a release candidate that includes a huge list of fixed issues.

Announcements

ColdFusion on Wheels
Learning Wheels Litepost Contest winners are
Mike Henke announces that the Aaron Wells, Cathy Shapiro and Ryan Stille won the contest.

Mango Blog
twtpoll Plugin
Bret Feddam created a plugin to embed a twtpoll chart.

Plugin for Mango Blog - AnalyticsHelper
Janusz Buda created this simple plugin that allows you to track downloads via Google Analytics.

jQuery Mango plugin updated to 1.4.2
Seb Duggan updated his plugin for including jQuery into your document head to the latest 1.4 version of the libraru.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

cfCommons
Code coverage & cyclomatic complexity calculations coming to ColdFusion
Micky Dionisio discusses the code coverage and cyclomatic complexity solution in cfCommons called Chimera.

Building a cfcommons application - Battlefield Part I
Micky Dionisio offers part one of this series covering building an application using cfCommons.

cfUniForm
cfUniForm Quick Tip: Struct or String
Matt Quackenbush discusses a change in the behavior of the pluginSetup attribute in the latest version.

Build Better Forms Even Faster
Dan Wilson gives cfUniForm his seal of approval.

cfUniForm: "Rate Me"
Matt Quackenbush shows how to use jQuery's star rating plugin with CFUniForm to add a star rating form element.

ColdFusion on Wheels
Learning CFWheels — Debugging
Clarke Bishop offers this tutorial on how to handle debugging in ColdFusion on Wheels.

CF Wheels ORM Fun!!!
Stephen Weyrick tried out ColdFusion on Wheels to create a simple sample project and discusses his experience.

Framework One
Framework One Sample Application - QBall
Raymond Camden shares his first FW/1 sample application that is a question and answer site along the lines of Stack Overflow.

HomePortals
Introducing the New HomePortals CMS Plugin
Oscar Arevalo gives an overview of the new CMS plugin he released this week.

Mango Blog
Multiple Mango Blog Instances from One Folder
Russell Brown discusses running multiple blog instances off a single Mango install folder.

Note to Mango Blog Users: check your log table if you use plugins
This post discusses the fact that a plugin can often be logging silently to the database without your knowing.

Model-Glue
Interesting issue with ORM, Model-Glue, and Exceptions
Raymond Camden tries to explain some erroneous out of memory errors he received when encountering an ORM error using Model-Glue.

Mura CMS
Intercepting Content in Mura CMS
Tony Garcia shows how you can intercept and modify content in Mura using a plugin.

Issue with Mura CMS, ColdFusion, ISAPI and IIS6
Stephen Withington discusses the solution for Mura SES URLs when using ISAPI and IIS6.

Mura Show - CArehart.org - Part 7
This series continues with converting Carehart.org to Mura by focusing on the UGTV section.