CF and the Open Source Landscape

"Once upon a time, if you wanted to develop applications in ColdFusion, you had to pay for any third party tools you needed - and you rarely got the source code. Things have changed! These days there are free and open source options right across the board to help you get your job done faster, cheaper and with more confidence. Find out how the burgeoning open source community can help you - and, perhaps, how you can help the open source community in return!"

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Open Source can be better quality than Proprietary - Apache, Linux, because they have so many eyes on the code.

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Key is the copyright license.

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So far this is a talk more about the concepts of Open Source... he's just starting into CF specifics.

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CF Exchange - mostly paid.

Why is CF so small? - Historically

PHP/Linux were OS from the start - have that mindset.

- CF was originally Windows and Proprietary, that continued.

Now?

Frameworks changed that - Fusebox, ModelGlue etc.

RIAForge - is almost all CF (720)

http://www.riaforge.org/index.cfm?event=page.category&id=1

Applications in CF?

BlogCFC

Mango Blog

Only forum: Galleon

Mura /FarCry- CMS

Tools:

CFEclipse http://www.carehart.org/cf411/#tools

CFML Engines:

Smith Project (CF6)

Open Blue Dragon (Cf7 - but moving up)

Railo (Cf9+extensions)

4CFF: For ColdFusion Foundation - http://4cff.org - just started... rolling out soon.

Social Coding:

SVN

GIT

codesion

unfuddle

assembla

github : This apparently is the best of the lot.