Bevy of CF Applications

In my quest for a text editor/tool for Coldfusion cheaper the Dreamweaver CS4 and CF Builder I stumbled upon riaforge.org. There are hundreds of coldfusion apps that will save you time and energy developing your own.

For Example, My boss wanted me to build a project tracking tool so she can be more aware of what we are working on and when we complete it. She had a ton of requirements including communications tools (messages/emails/comments), user assignment, calendar components, edit/copy/delete tasks, calendar events, file upload/download, etc…

I got lucky and found this Project Tracker tool which is very similar to Basecamp from 27 signals. It has almost the same features with the exception of the whiteboard. http://projecttracker.riaforge.org/. After an hour of setup and a 30 minute demo of the features , I look like a genius.

BlogCFC looks like a neat tool to.

Worth a look out there if you need apps to support your customers or coworker.

Blog - Have a look at Mango Blog as well. IMO a lot better than blogCFC because of things like the templating system.

BlogCFC updates are a nightmare to install, mainly because there is no separation of the HTML views from the actual blog code.

Bug Tracking - Not CF but if you get a chance it’s well worth having a look at Trac or JIRA.

We use Trac, integrated with Subversion, and the two together are a powerful combination. Has completely changed the way we work in here.

The icing on the cake is bringing ANT in and automating your deployments. Nothing more satisfying than hitting a “run” button to move all your latest updates onto production and then popping out for a coffee for 10 minutes :lol: