I would like to thank everyone that offered suggestions for what they would like to see in the next version of cfcUnit. Many of these are great ideas, and some will certainly be added to the core framework. They have given me something to focus on and a bit more future food for thought.

Something else that is made much clearer is that more documentation, tutorials and examples are needed to get people started more quickly. I will be addressing that.

I would also like to remind folks that there is a cfcUnit mailing list (link below). If you have any ideas or questions about how things work, it is a good way of getting some help.

Ok, so I have finally gone and done it. A number of people have been giving me a bit of grief over this, and while the cfcUnit site hasn't yet been updated, I have gone ahead and made available for download cfcUnit's next release, 1.2 Beta 1.

The major enhancement brought forth in this release is the inclusion of a rather versatile Ant task, so now tests can be run from within Eclipse without much trouble or as part of any build/deployment process that employs Ant.

I will post more about this and update the cfcUnit site later on today, but the link below will take you to the download page:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=100854&package_id=126568&release_id=483297

Let me know how it goes. I look forward to any feedback.

There has been a lot more attention paid to testing CFCs this year at CFUnited, and cfcUnit is right there at the front when discussing unit testing one's CFML. Perhaps the biggest proponent of unit testing has been John Paul Ashenfelter and his talks on Agile Development and Testing ColdFusion. Additionally, I have seen demos of unit testing by Chris Scott when showing off different functionality of the ColdSpring framework.

A side effect of this attention has been that there will soon be a new Ant task written by John Paul that will allow cfcUnit to be run as a part of an automated build, but it could also be run from within Eclipse just as other unit testing frameworks do now.

Dave Ross has been asked by numerous people to speak about ColdSpring at the Fusebox Conference this year, but needs interested people to justify attending. If you are interested in learning more about ColdSpring and how it fits with the other frameworks, let him know.

A couple of hours ago I gave a presentation introducting Tartan via Breeze. If you weren't able to watch it live, you can watch a recording.

I just got finished with my first go at a web site for the Tartan framework. It is a work in progress, but you have to start somewhere. It can be found at:

http://www.tartanframework.org

Much of the content has been contributed by Jared Rypka-Hauer, so if you have anything you want to see there, let me know and we can talk...

Anyhow, check it out!

There has been a interesting discussion on the Mach-II mailing list recently regarding the very future of the framework. Growing up is hard to do.

Peter Farrell has done a good job of summarizing the debate on his blog. Check it out.

There is a new set of files for Tartan. Check it out:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=100854&package_id=141144

Oh, and let me know if you have any problems.

I just found out from John Beynon's blog that Blackstone (or CFMX 7) is now publicly available for download and purchase from Macromedia at http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/buy.

We've been waiting a long time, but no more! Go and get it!

A couple of people have asked about any possible mailing list, so I went ahead and created one at topica.com. The main page for the list can be found at http://lists.topica.com/lists/tartan. You can join the list from this page.