cfFrameworks July Roundup

(Relatively) on time for once! - Here's the roundup of ColdFusion Framework News for July, grouped by Framework in alphabetical order for your convenience... (I know, some articles have been posted more than once - I was in two minds what to do with items that covered more than one framework...)

ColdBox:

There's been an increased amount of interest in ColdBox this month (especially on Twitter and Pownce) - helped to no small degree by an excellent cfFrameworks.com workshop from Luis Majano - for which the recording can be found here -watch it now if you haven't already!

Rob Gonda has joined "Team ColdBox" as he details here.

Russ Johnson has posted what looks like it could be the first in a series of articles on Porting FuseBox 5 Apps to ColdBox : Controllers

Luis Majano says that a maintenance release should be expected shortly with some improvements made by Rob Gonda: ColdBox 2.0.3 Maintenance Release Soon!!

ColdSpring:

Brian Kotek shows how to inject extra metadata when creating ColdSpring remote proxies: ColdSpring Mad Science: Injecting Metadata for use in AOP and Proxy Generation, followed by a Connect presentation discussing and demoing his proposed changes to ColdSpring's auto-remoting API: Connect Presentation on Proposed ColdSpring Enhancements.

Brian Rinaldi discusses some issues he ran into while trying ColdSpring's auto-remoting feature for the first time: Some Tips on Using ColdSpring Remoting, and offers this beginner's tutorial on using ColdSpring's auto-remoting features to connect to a Flex application: Objects and Composition- Connecting to Flex.

FarCry:

A few posts on FarCry covering different aspects - one consistent message: FarCry is not JUST a CMS - it is a full blown application framework...

From the official Daemon blog, a "State of the Nation" post outlining the current state of all things FarCry: FarCry Development Proceeding At A Blistering Pace

Jeff Coughlin  Jeff Coughlin goes over the highlights of the latest version of the FarCry core: FarCry Core 4.0.4 Released

Trond Ulseth  wrote a tutorial on making plugins in FarCry 4 making use of the FarCry Form Tools technology. It shows some of the awesome powers of FarCry. Scaffolding, ORM, code- and application generation in a very smooth package: FarCry 4 tutorial everybody should see?

FuseBox:

July seems to have been a quiet month for FuseBox news - Although August promises to be much busier - with the first public preview of FuseBox 5.5 tomorrow today in the cfFrameworks.com Workshop: Sean Corfield on FuseBox

Our own Nick Tong shows how to create a custom TQL lexicon in FuseBox 5: TQL Transfer lexicon for fusebox.

Russ Johnson has posted what looks like it could be the first in a series of articles on Porting Fusebox 5 Apps to Coldbox : Controllers

Mach-II:

And as if to prove Matt's post from last month - Framework with most news...

Peter Farrell posts: These items are deprecated... no, really we will take them out in Mach-II 2.0: Mach-II 1.5 - List of Officially Deprecated Elements

Peter Farrell discusses some recent bug fixes in the SVN copy of Mach ii 1.5 beta: Core Changes Since 1.5 Beta 1 Release

Peter Farrell goes over the various ways to keep up with the discussions on the Mach ii Google Group: Join Our Google Group and Ways to Participate

Dave Shuck offers a sample Mach ii 1.5/Coldspring application which you can download: Example Mach-II 1.5/ColdSpring application

Peter Farrell talks about the plans for future incremental updates to the Mach ii framework: Our Development Roadmap

Dave Shuck notes that in a continued effort to improve the projects openness, they have published documentation to every CFC that makes up the framework: CFC Documentation for Mach-II Now Available!

Peter Farrell announces that his company, GreatBizTools, now controls the copyright to the Mach ii framework which releases it from the control of Ben Edwards and will move forward efforts to be more open: GreatBizTools to Support Mach-II

Dave Shuck offers a little more insight into why the GreatBizTools purchase of the Mach ii copyright is a good thing going forward. Big Mach-II news! GreatBizTools officially backing the project

The Mach ii team is looking for feedback from beta testers of Mach ii 1.5: We Need Your Feedback on the 1.5 Beta 1

MachBlog:
Brian Rinaldi discusses the steps and offers some code to help people who want to transition from BlogCFC to MachBlog: 5 Steps to Moving from BlogCFC to MachBlog

Model-Glue:

Doug Boude offers this tutorial on how to add a security check to your events in Model-Glue: Basic Event Security in Model-Glue Applications

Scott Stroz discusses how Model-Glue can help you easily handle last minute requirement changes in your application: Reason #526 Why I Like Model-Glue

Meet the model-glue team: Model-Glue: Simpsons!

Joe Rhinehart shows how to determine the view to include at runtime within Model-Glue: Dynamically adding views to a Model-Glue Event

Todd Sharp points out a common mistake when using Model-Glue (or any framework for that matter) with Ajax:
Model-Glue with Ajax - Watch Your Debug Output

Dan Wilson posts a tutorial on Installing Transfer in ModelGlue:Unity

Transfer:

Mark Mandel posts on Performance Improvements for Transfer

Dan Wilson posts a tutorial on Installing Transfer in ModelGlue:Unity

Our own Nick Tong shows how to create a custom TQL lexicon in Fusebox 5: TQL Transfer lexicon for fusebox.