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OpenCF Summit 2011

OpenCF Summit is a community gathering focused exclusively on advancing free and open source software in the CFML community.

If you’re interested in diving into the free software CFML engines,  learning more about the free software movement, and interacting with the most progressive thinkers in the CFML community, OpenCF Summit is for you!

You may register for the conference here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/137534

CKeditor 3 with free filemanager, now also for Coldfusion!

I always used version 2 of the best wysiwyg editor out there: FCKeditor. But it began to show it’s age, and some functions didn’t work like I wanted. So I checked for an upgrade.

And yes, did they have one! A completely rewritten editor, now dubbed CKeditor, created byCKsource.com. It looks good, works good, and was easy to integrate.
On the other hand, they really changed the way they do business: if you want the file uploader CKfinder with the editor, you have to pay for it! Previously, all was free. I understand they want to make money, but to pay a license fee per client website would be unreal.
Luckily, there is a free alternative: the CKeditor filemanager plug-in by Core Five

They made a file manager (uploader) plugin which can be used with CKeditor, and is very easy to implement. But as always, Coldfusion wasn’t yet supported. And that’s why I created the CFM connector for CKeditor’s alternative Filemanager!

by Paul Klinkenberg.

Download the CKeditor with FileManager from Paul’s blog “Railo Developer“.

ColdFusion – CFML Advisory Committee Officialy Dead

This morning I started to read some posts about the death of the CFML Advisory Committee and it got interesting. I’m following the comments and I though it would be worth publishing the links here for whoever is interested in that matter:

http://www.adrocknaphobia.com/post.cfm/adobe-no-longer-part-of-opencfml

http://corfield.org/blog/post.cfm/the-demise-of-opencfml

http://blog.mattwoodward.com/cfml-advisory-committee-officially-dead-my-ve