Object Relation mapping is one of the key feature in CFWheels. It makes things easier to start using ORM in applications. The ORM configuration is implemented by creating a mapping between a db table and CF component of the application. To demonstrate ORM feature, lets create a utility to list the tags with edit/delete/add options in a table.
ColdFusion on Wheels 1.0, the production ready version hits the web today. I haven’t utilized it before and wanted to discover its features over the other frameworks available for ColdFusion. Installation is simple without worrying about setting any configuration variables. Here is the simple three steps installation of the framework in windows with IIS.
The public beta of Adobe AIR 2 hits the Adobe Labs today. The new features the beta release as mentioned in Adobe Labs are follows:
The Adobe DevSummit coming to Chennai on Nov 24, 2009 with excellent sessions by the adobe team and awesome community speakers. The registration is opened with limited seats, so hurry up and grab your gold pass for this Free Full-day event at Chennai Taj Coromandel.
I’m delighted to announce another ColdFusion Cookbook contest, as we all know Adobe recently launched the new ColdFusion Cookbook section. As of now it includes 123 great recipes. Therefore inviting all the ColdFusion developers to achieve the next target of 200 ColdFusion recipes.
Today Rakshith provided a very informative presentation about ColdFusion 9 and Abode AIR integration to Chennai CFUG. The recording of the presentation is available here and I posted it to the Charlie Arehart’s UGTV site.
Chennai CFUG is having its October month meeting on coming 22nd covering on ColdFusion 9 and Adobe AIR Integration. In this meeting Rakshith from adobe CF engineering team will presenting. Topics involved are ColdFusion 9 offline AIR application support that includes data persistence/synchronization.
ColdFusion 9 introduces four new attributes in CFGrid tag. These attributes are good addition to CFGrid which allows us to expand or collapse the entire grid. It can group the rows in CFGrid by mentioning the group column name to generate a collapsible rows group in the grid. We can also insert a new row in or provide a title to the entire CFGrid.
ColdFusion 9 shipped with lots of new features that include some new variables which are added to the Application.cfc file. One among them is the new application level SMTP server setting. We can specify the SMTP server setting details to “smtpServersettings” attribute of THIS scope in Application.cfc which takes three values and they are server, username and password as a structure.
Adobe announced the release of ColdFusion 9 and product is available for purchase. Also, the ColdFusion Builder Beta 2 is released and available at Adobe Labs.
