ColdFusion Open-Source Update - September 29, 2008

One new release and five updates this week as well as a lot of announcements. I made sure to release this update tonight to help calm the markets tomorrow. Your banks may be failing and credit may be disappearing but lest anyone think that the world of ColdFusion open-source is anything but healthy.

New Releases and Updates

New Project: VICO CRM
Initial Release
This project by Marius Milosav is a multilingual customer relationship management suite of applications.

CFWheels
Wheels 0.8.2 Released
This release fixes a number critical bugs.

Lighthouse Pro
Lighthouse Pro 2.5 (Beta)
Lighthouse Pro gets a new design, milestones and reworked Ajax functionality using JQuery.

Mach-II
Mach-II 1.6.0 Beta Released
Peter Farrell announces that Mach-II 1.6 is now in official beta. This release includes things like a new caching package, new logging package and a new publish/subscribe listener method invocation.

MXUnit
MXUnit 1.0.3 Now Available
Marc Esher announces that this release is mostly a bug fix release but also allows the DirectoryTestSuite to work with relative paths.

POI Utility
"Style Bleed" Problem Fixed In POI Utility Tags
Ben Nadel fixes an issue in his POI Utility thanks to a tip from Nathan Mische.

Announcements

ColdSpring
FacadeStarter Updated
Tom Chiverton updates his FacadeStarter for ColdSpring.

Lighthouse Pro
More on the Ajax changes to Lighthouse Pro
Raymond Camden goes into more detail on the reasoning and decisions behind the recent changes to Lighthouse Pro.

Mach-II
Config File Reference is Ready for Action
Brian FitzGerald announces a config file reference document has been added to the wiki.

MachII
A Warm Team Mach-II Welcome to Brian FitzGerald
Brian FitzGerald joins Team Mach-II as the Wiki manager.

Mango Blog
Show your Mango pride
You can now add Mango badges to your Mango powered blog.

OnTap Framework
Clarifying the Galleon Forums Project
Isaac Dealey clarifies why he went through porting over Ray's Galleon forums to several frameworks, including OnTap.

POI Utility
Java Hashtable - An Object-Based-Lookup "Struct" (Thanks Nathan Mische)
Ben Nadel goes into detail about the issue Nathan Mische found in his POI Utility.

Razuna
Why Razuna is more then a open source digital asset management system
This posts discusses Razuna's full-featured CMS system and API.

Reactor
The First Reactor Meeting
The first Reactor meeting seems to have focused on organizing the requirements of future meetings and laying the groundwork for contribution.

Skweegee
Skweegee Private Beta Is Underway
Russ Johnson announces that the Skweegee private beta may allow for a 0.4 release by the end of the week, provided there are no major issues.

Squidhead
Squidhead Still Swimming
Terry Ryan announces that Nathan Mische and Dave Konopka are joining his Squidhead project.

WhosOnCFCDB
September Update
Shane Zehnder says that though development on WhosOnCFCDB has temporarily stalled, he will be returning to it soon.

Tutorials, Presentations and Reviews

BlogCFC
My BlogCFC mods for Windows Live Writer
Dan Switzer discusses some changes he made to the XML-RPC code.

ColdBox
Setting up a ColdBox Application - ColdBox Series Part 2
Jason Dean continues his series discussing installation of ColdBox and ColdSpring, the database and the directory structure among other things.

Coldspring
Coldspring stopped me cold..
Terry Palmer discusses an issue he encountered with ColdSpring and how he solved it.

ColdSpring
ColdFusion SOA back-end for Flex, AJAX using ColdSpring… Part 3
Hem shows the gateway he uses for Flex, Ajax and Webservice calls.

Model-Glue
When is coupling OK? Frameworks & Services & Applications... oh my!
Jared Rypka-Hauer responds to a mailing list question about whether using the new bean injection functionality couples your model too tightly with a particular framework.

Transfer
Transfer Query - From Phrase to AND Search
Raymond Camden shows how to do create a multi-word search query using TQL.