ColdFusion Open-Source Update - October 27, 2008
Two new projects and four updates this week. MAX is coming up quickly, and I am excited about attending. I am also speaking at Ray's ColdFusion Unconference on "ColdFusion, Open Source, and Burnout Paradise Tips." I may know much about ColdFusion or Open-Source, but I gleaned a few pointers from my six year old son about how to beat Ray at Burnout Paradise.
New Releases and Updates
New Project: Stitcho API Library
Initial Release
Richard Davies released the Stitcho API Library to work with the desktop notification widgets for web sites.
New Project: ValidateThis!
ValidateThis! - Object Oriented Validation Code Available at RIAForge
Bob Silverberg has finally released the code for his validation framework including a demo application.
ColdExt
ColdExt Beta 3: Lots of Ext JS goodness!
Justin Carter posts about a number of updates to his Ext JS custom tag library which supports version 2.2 and added support for 12 new core tags and 12 new user extension tags.
ColdFire
ColdFire 1.2.95.100 and a CF to JSON Gotcha
Nathan Mische explains changes to the new version related to serializing/deserializing JSON.
DataMgr
DataMgr 2.2 Beta 2
Steve Bryant released the new version of his "data access layer component set" including a bunch of new methods, relations and enhanced features.
Lighthouse Pro
Lighthouse Pro 2.5.001
Ray Camden releases this (mostly) bug fix release with a new feature to move issues from one project to another.
Announcements
ColdBox
ColdBox Spry Plugin 2.0 Released
Ernst Van Linden released a new update to his plugin.
Mango
Mango pre-installed in Amazon EC2 image
Gert Franz of Railo has pre-installed Mango on an Amazon EC2 image that can be duplicated.
ValidateThis!
ValidateThis! - Client Side Validation Architecture
Bob Silverberg finishes the discussion of the architecture of his validation framework.
Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews
ColdBox
Creating the Gateway Object - ColdBox Series Part 7b
Jason Dean continues his ColdBox framework tutorial.
Creating the Gateway Object - ColdBox Series Part 7a
Jason Dean continues his ongoing ColdBox tutorial series.
General (Frameworks)
Coldbox, ColdSpring, Transfer, Refactoring And Me (part 3)
Francois Levesque continues his discussion about his experiences learning Transfer and Colbox.
CFConversations 20, Roundtable 7 - 10/26/08 - Part 2 on controller frameworks!
The podcast continues their discussion including representatives of various ColdFusion frameworks and one "anti-framework" advocate.
Validat
Data Validation vs. Object Validation
Jeff Chastain responds to recent OO posts by Ben Nadel and how it relates to thinking about Validat, Alagad's open source validation framework.
