Fuzzy Orange are proud to launch a new open-source project to the community.

Codenamed 'Rhea', after the mother of the Olympian Gods and Godesses, this project is a package of ColdFusion components providing instant access to interact with the Rackspace Cloud Servers and Cloud Files APIs.

We at Fuzzy Orange, a longstanding partner with Rackspace and user of the Cloud services, wanted a way to simplify the way we deployed to the Cloud server and provide an easier in-house method of managing the Cloud Files.

Having spoken to developers and after reading documentation, we noticed the need for a ColdFusion application to merge with the Rackspace API, and as such, Rhea was born.

Having built the system from the ground up, we now use this API internally to deploy dynamic content to our Cloud Servers and to upload and manage static content to the Cloud Files containers, streamlining and enhancing the way we work.

We have opened up the application and pushed it out to the community so that others can benefit as well, and we look forward to hearing from those that are using it.

The download itself contains an installation guide and documentation on the basic implementation of the code, as well as a list of the methods currently available to users to work with the API.

As ever, nothing is timeless, and we will be working on upgrades and amendments to the code base to ensure you continue get the best application available.

Rhea V0.99 is available to download now from RIA Forge: http://rhea.riaforge.org/