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cfFrameworks July Roundup

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:39:00 --0100

(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...)

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CFframeworks June round up

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:42:00 --0100

Slightly later than usual but here is a round up of all the ColdFusion related framewoorks news in June.

Sammy Larbi has released version 0.2.5 of the Cfrails frameworks. It includes a number of changes including Spry integration for form validation, improvements to database support and more documentation.

A busy month for Joe Rinehart who launched Model-Glue:Flex, described as "a conceptual port of Model-Glue implicit invocation framework to ActionScript 3 and Flex" and also version 2.0.304 of Model Glue.

Luis F. Majano celebrated the 4th of July (Yes I know this is the June update) by releasing a ColdBox dictionary to give you function and scope insight for CFEclipse, this rocks check it out.

Farcry 4.0.1 was officially released by Geoff Bowers and the Daemon team.

Russ Jhonson has created some very useful fusebox5 templates for Brian Rinaldi's Illudium code generator. There is also a handy screencast of it in action.

Speaking of Brian Rinaldi, in part2 of his series on Objects and compositions in CFCs he covers ColdSpring integration.

Another mention for Luis F. Majano who gives us yet more documentation for ColdBox.

Doug Boude shows us how to use Gobal ColdSpring Configuration beans.

At the end of May John Farrar released COOP along with a presentation at the Online ColdFusion Meetup group.

The Fusebox website has been relaunched with a Beta of Fusebox 5.5 due soon.

Finally Team Mach-ii have been assuring us not only is Mach-II not dead it is actually alive and kicking and if to prove the point they released a brand new website and version 1.5 (beta) of the framework.

Novemeber End 2006 Frameworks Roundup

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:28:00 --0100

There is a lot of coldspring and Mach-II news in this round us. Coldspring appears to be getting adapted more and more by developers and with LiteWire giving chance Dependency Injection (DI) is becoming well know.

We have started interviewing some framework Gurus/reviews so watch this space.

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Mid November 2006 coldfusion frameworks round up

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:12:00 --0100

Below is a rather busy few weeks in the frameworks world. I've been a little ill so this is why this post is rather late this month and it's also why I've paraphrased a lot from remotesynth, I hope you don't mind Brian.

AjaxCFC
Version 1.0 Released
Rob Gonda released AjaxCFC version 1.0 on RIAForge. This release also includes log4javascript integration for enhanced debugging. Rob also updated the Model-Glue and Mach II branches of ajaxCFC.

CFRails
Initial Release
This project by Sam Larbi, and hosted at RIAForge, is intended to be a port of some Ruby on Rails functionality into ColdFusion. The initial release focuses on automating CRUD operations.

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cfFrameworks bi-monthly Roundup 15-10-2006

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:23:00 --0100

Model-Glue Vs Model-Glue:Unity

Jared gives a good in site to the differences between Model-Glue Vs Model-Glue:Unity - which basically isn't a great deal. Action packs are big news which he explains as being functionality. If you're unsure if you should use MG:U then check this post out. He also does a good job of talking about 'extendable built-in events' - these, for examples, allow you to add events at the start/end of request like onRequest Start in application.cfc.

Note created Oct 3, 2006

cf.Objective - www.web-relevant.com/

Reactor update

Dougs back with a great round up to the updates that have happened to Reactor. Beth Bowen has been helping with a lot of bugs and Doug has been working on Performance. With a trimmed down CFC collection and the removal of a base abstract object made some differences but the thing to make the difference was the introduction of a OO query facade. Read Dougs blog for full details. DougHughes.net - doughughes.net/...

From UGTV

What's new in Mach II 1.1 Head First Mach-ii (v. 1.1.1) Peter gave this presentation to our Cleveland ColdFusion Users group meeting. This is a great introduction to Mach-ii if your looking to learn more about it. Tartan Service/Command Framework

A walk through and demonstration of the Tartan application framework, by its creator. Tartan implements the service/command pattern.

FarCry Video tutorials
JeffCoughlin.com

Fusebox 5

Matt and Peter at the ColdFusion Weekly Podcast interview Sean Corfield about Fusebox 5.

cfEclipse and fusebox

Mark Drew is asking for ideas that should be used for creating a fusebox plugin for cfEclipse.

I just wanted to ask the community out there, if there is a need/want for a plugin that helps you whilst developing fusebox applications?

If you have any ideas pop over to his post and add them in his comments. Mark Drew: Fusebox Plugin for Eclipse/CFEclipse

Coldfusion frameworks round up October End 2006

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 08:58:00 --0100

It's been rather a busy couple of weeks for Frameworks, a few new releases/updates. It's becoming an exciting time. Fusebox 5 and Lexicons will be shown off at cfDevcon next Thursday. If you want to win a ticket for cfDevcon click here for more details.

Remember that there is a cfFrameworks mailing list - it's a little quite at the moment but thats how some like it I guess.

Interviews

Here at cfFrameworks.com we are looking to interview frameworks masters - if you are involved in any frameworks please contact us so we can setup an interview - to everyone else watch this space for the interview to come live.

OnAir

On Remote Synthesis: ColdFusion Open-Source Update - October 16 Brian got informed about a new Framework called onAir.:

New Project: onAir Application Framework
Initial Release
Jan Jannek sent me this link to his new framework which he deems a "smart connection framework" which is intended to simplify connecting back-end business logic with rich front-ends built in Ajax, Flex or Laszlo. From his email, it "provides different Request Handlers (XML, XML-RPC, JSON, etc.) which can be accessed from various clients" and even has a "caching and monitoring mechanism which caches method invocation results and keeps track of method callers." Sounds like this might be worth checking out via his svn repository at https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/onair/.

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cfFrameworks bi-monthly Roundup 29-09-2006

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:44:00 --0100

This is the first of many. We aim to bring you all the news relating to frameworks.

fusebox5 reference

Michael Traher generated some fusebox5 reference docs from the DTDs provide with fusebox 5.

Social Points : FUSEBOX 5 - Reference docs - www.socialpoints.com/...

Framework Choice

Rob Gonda gives his view on which framework one should choose.

Rob Gonda's ColdFusion Blog: which framework to choose? - www.robgonda.com/...

Breeze presentation on MG:U scaffolding and AJAX

Joe has made a video showing off how you can customise the code (scaffolds) created by Model-Glue unity. With his customisation he plugs in some AJAX.

clearsoftware.net: Video: Ajax Scaffolds in Model-Glue - clearsoftware.net/...

CFCDoc back up and running

Jared's has got the cfcDoc engine back up and running: http://www.cfobjective.com/cfcdoc/ with the promise that he'll be adding new frameworks very soon.

cf.Objective - www.web-relevant.com/...

Breeze Presentation on Reactor

Doug gave a presentation to the Toronto CFUG on Reactor including:

    * A quick review of ORM techniques
    * What Reactor is and isn't
    * Supported database servers
    * The Reactor API (briefly)
    * Some examples (in code)
    * Getting Started / Resources
    * Questions and Answers

http://adobechats.adobe.breezecentral.com/cfugtorontomeeting1/

DougHughes.net - doughughes.net/...

Coldbox domain names

Coldbox buys up framework domains www.coldboxframework.com and www.coldboxframework.org. Luis Majano also says that there is a Trac site to come.
http://ortus.svnrepository.com/coldbox/trac.cgi
It sounds like there are a few changes in the "about to be released" version. Pop over to Luis' blog for more details

Luis Majano's Java, Coldfusion & More Blog - www.luismajano.com/...

AutoWiring in Model-Glue unity

Nondo starts to clear some of the mystery of AutoWiring in Model-Glue unity. This article also shows good use of Coldspring. If you're new to either this is a good read, if you're not this is still a good read.

Aria Media: The Mystery of AutoWiring in Model-Glue Unity - aria-media.com/...

Frameworks don't suck

Joe Rinehart gives his option about frameworks not sucking after Peter Bell decided to give the Frameworks pot a good stir.

What's nice about this post is its explanation of how Model-Glue Unity can live quite easily without Reactor and Coldspring. This can be a little overwhelming to people thinking about learning MG:U.as you may think that you have to learn 3 frameworks in one hit. (of course without Reactor Scaffolds are out)

Some other relating posts to read are:
Duelling Frameworks?
No More Frameworks Debate for Me
Mach-II - Why Bother?!

clearsoftware.net: Model-Glue Bloating, Mach-II Dying, Frameworks Sucking - clearsoftware.net/...