ColdFusion Open-Source Update - October 6, 2008

Three new projects and three updates this week. The question I have this afternoon, unrelated to ColdFusion and open source, is, do we get to celebrate DOW 10,000 all over again when this eventually comes back around? As a follow up, how stupid do James Glassman and Kevin Hassett, authors of the now infamous DOW 36,000, seem in retrospect? They probably haven't skipped a beat and are rushing out a book called "DOW 1,000" to cash in on the recent decline. Anyway, back to the topic at hand...

New Releases and Updates

New Project: ColdDoc
Initial Release
Mark Mandel makes a port of JavaDoc for ColdFusion to generate API documentation. Code currently only in Subversion.

New Project: ColdFusion Facebook Application
ColdFusion and Facebook
Gavin Vincent has created this starter application for writing Facebook applications in ColdFusion.

New Project: Unfuddlecfc
Unfuddlecfc
Terry Ryan created this CFC that implements the Unfuddle API in order to automate getting backups.

cfUniForm
cfUniForm v2.5 - New jQuery Plugin Integration
Matt Quackenbush released a new version of his forms custom tag set that includes new jQuery plugin integration.

ColdFusion on Wheels
Wheels 0.8.2 Released
Chris Peters posts about this bug fix release.

Soundings
Soundings 2.1
Ray Camden announces a mostly a bug fix release but also includes some UI improvements and the removal of cflogin due to certain bugs.

Announcements

ColdBox
New ColdBox Flickr Group, Upload your media!
Upload photos, video or screenshots to the ColdBox Flickr group.

Mango Blog
Share This! A Social Bookmarking Tag For Mango Blog
Mark Aplet created this plugin for Mango Blog.

MXUnit
Ajax Testing with MXUnit, Webdriver, and Firefox
Bill Shelton posts about a new project called CFWebdriver Experimental that will allow for UI testing.

Razuna
Razuna 1.1.2 meets Gears
The new version of Razuna will use Google Gears to speed up the performance of highly used files.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

ColdBox
A Look at Event Handlers - ColdBox Series Part 3
Jason Dean covers what event handlers are and how to define them in his ongoing series.

ColdSpring
Using ColdSpring Interceptors With Remoting Proxies
Scott Stroz shows how to use ColdSpring AOP to format data for a cfgrid or other Ajax calls.

ColdFusion to Flex Object Type Conversion via ColdSpring
Steve Brownlee discusses using ColdSpring AOP to convert queries to arrays of objects.

Fusebox
Fusebox 5 Pet Peeve of the Day
Shawn Holmes starts what sounds like it will be a series with a complaint about "no fall-through support for 'No-XML' Implicit Circuit Detection."

General (Frameworks)
An introduction to ColdFusion frameworks - now on Adobe Devnet!
Mark Mandel writes an article that covers the various types of ColdFusion frameworks and some examples of each in this comprehensive article.

Mango Blog
Ask a Grokker: Why can't I activate an inactive Plugin in Mango?
Adam Tuttle shows how to activate a plugin that is refusing to activate via the admin UI.

OnTap Framework
IoC Manager, Lazy Loading and SOA
Isaac Dealey dicusses the IoC Manager in OnTap and how that can help to build service oriented architectures.

Reactor
Gotcha with Reactor records and exists()
Tom Chiverton discusses an issue with checking if a record exists and how to work around it.