ColdFusion Open-Source Update - October 13, 2008

One (sorta) new project this week and one update. Obviously this is a light week for ColdFusion open source, nonetheless Russ Johnson's Skweegee (which existed previously under a different name with a different codebase but a similar concept) should be an interesting project to watch.

New Releases and Updates

New Project: Skweegee
First Public Release Of Skweegee!! Took Long Enough!
Russ Johnson released the first public version of his project management tool that aims to have similar functionality to Trac, only built with ColdFusion.

OnTap Framework
Plugin Manager Update
Isaac Dealey has updated how the framework manages plugins and all the plugins to match this change.

Mail Bag : Framework Community Picking Up Steam
Isaac Dealey responds to OnTap/DataFaucet questions from John Whish and Gabe Roffman.

Announcements

CF Gallery Creator
CF Gallery Creator / jQuery Slider Gallery
Micheal Evangelista posts about a photo gallery application he hopes to release as open source and for which he is currently seeking testers.

CFGroovy
CFGroovy Demo App Update at BarneyBlog
Barney Boisvert updates his demo application to fix an issue with MSSQL.

ColdBox
New IRC Channel - #ColdBox
You can now find ColdBox help/community on IRC.

First ColdBox Training Seminar Completed and more...
Luis Majano discusses the first ColdBox training course and plans for future courses.

Mango Blog
New Themes for Mango Blogs
Adam Tuttle highlights a new site by Mark Aplet that offers free and premium Mango Blog themes.

Transfer
Transfer Survey, now open!
Mark Mandel has put together a new survey to help determine the direction of Transfer.

ValidateThis!
ValidateThis! - An Object Oriented Approach to Validations
Bob Silverberg plans on releasing a framework for validation as an open-source project. In this post he discusses some of the underlying concepts and ideas.

ValidateThis! - Object Oriented Validations Demo Now Online
Bob Silverberg releases a demo of his validation framework that he intends to release as open-source.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

ColdBox
Creating our Domain Objects - ColdBox Series Part 6
Jason Dean continues his tutorial series.

Convention over Configuration - ColdBox Series Part 5
Jason Dean continues his tutorial series.

Understanding the coldbox.xml config file - ColdBox Series Part 4
Jason Dean continues his tutorial series.

ColdSpring
A Complex Gotcha with ColdSpring, Remote Proxies and Getter/Setter Mischief
Shawn Holmes details a complex issue pertaining to generic remote proxy methods generated by ColdSpring and the metadata needed to properly work with Axis for creating/consuming web services.

FarCry
Dynamic Programming and Metadata
Jeff Chastain discusses FarCry's use of dynamic programming using metadata in CFCs.