ColdFusion Builder is available at the Adobe stores starting today. ColdFusion builder has been significantly improved in performance after the beta releases. I’ve been utilizing the beta versions and don’t think I will be using any other IDE for ColdFusion development. My favorite feature is developing Extensions using ColdFusion is absolutely an brilliant one.

The Chennai ColdFusion User Group is hosting its ColdFusion Builder Special Event on coming March 30, 2010. In this Event Dipanwita Sarkar from Adobe CF Builder team will be demonstrating the new features, extension/insight into the future of CF Builder. It is an excellent opportunity to learn more on the IDE from the team itself. This will be an Adobe Connect Meeting and more details are available at Chennai ColdFusion User Group site.

DZone just released the ColdFusion Builder Reference card by Adobe Platform Evangelist Terrence Ryan. This is a second refcard from DZone followed by ColdFusion 9 Reference card released on August 2009 written by the same author.

Auto-closing of tags is a nice feature to include in the editors. ColdFusion Builder provide to us some additional options on enabling/disabling the Auto-close tags feature as follows.

Adobe released the ColdFusion 9 performance brief covering statistics/executive summary of CF 9 performance over previous versions. Download the PDF from here - http://bit.ly/CF9PerformanceBrief

Adobe has announced a critical Security Bulletin for ColdFusion versions (9.0, 8.0.1, 8.0, and 7.0.2) yesterday. This update is for a vulnerability identified in BlazeDS 3.2 and its earlier versions.

Chennai CFUG is having its monthly meeting on February 18, 2010, about getting started with ORM in ColdFusion 9. In this meeting Himavanth from Adobe engineering team will present about the Object Relation Mapping features in CF 9. Also, covers on using ColdFusion 9 ORM features to create Rapid CF Applications. This will be an Adobe Connect meeting. Please see the event details on Chennai CFUG site at adobe groups for more information and to RSVP (Login with your Adobe ID to RSVP)

I experienced some problems while installing ColdFusion 8 and configuring IIS7 on my Windows 7. Fortunately I got it solved immediately after referring to the solution at the web about configuring IIS 7 to work with ColdFusionby Dale Fraser, Paul Kukiel and Sameer Gupta. I am unsure why this problem is not addressed by Adobe, and I heard even with ColdFusion 9 the problem exist. Let’s hope Adobe will fix this issue with the upcoming ColdFusion 9 Update 1.

This post is to demonstrate how quickly we can include Highslide JS to blogCFC in a four simple steps. Highslide JS is an open source JavaScript image/gallery library and is free Non-commercial use. Highslide will be extremely useful in placing full-size images without worrying about the blog layout. Over here are the steps on how we can include Highslide to blogCFC.

Tried and utilized some database administration tools for MySQL, but I felt like something was missing. Recently, started using Navicat for MySQL db management tool that provides what I required. It contains features that can be used to manage databases with a minimal amount of time.