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.

After reading many blog post about Mura CMS, Yesterday I downloaded and installed to explore it. Mura CMS is stunning with tons of features included. It makes building, deploying/maintaining web sites and its contents extremely simpler. Apart from its excellent features/functionalities, Mura CMS, is open source and Free.

On Tuesday, August 4th, I attended the Adobe devsummit at bangalore. This is my first experience at Adobe Devsummit and all I want to assert is that the event was extremely awesome and amazing. There were more than 1200 participants attended the event, the event location/arrangements are effectively managed. The event was powered by Ben Forta and Serge Jespers keynote presentations about the Flash Platform, ColdFusion, Mobile platform with demos.

On August 08, Chennai Adobe ColdFusion User Group hosting the Flex at Beach Event with Adams Studio India Pvt Ltd at Chennai. Come and learn about the exciting features and discover more about the latest development in Adobe Flex 4, ActionScript, and Flex Frameworks and how to use Java and BlazeDS together with Flex.

Yesterday, I finished reading the “The Principles of Successful Freelancing”, written by Miles Burke and Published by SitePoint. Deciding to be a freelancer as part-time/full-time is a harsh decision. However, this book will support you to gain all the knowledge you require to retain in the freelancing.

Ben Forta and Serge Jaspers are coming to Bangalore to present at the Adobe Devsummit at Lalit Ashok, Bangalore on 4th August 2009. The topics are really exciting which includes ColdFusion, Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst, LifeCycle Data Services and many more. So don’t miss this wonderful full day event and will see you all there.

The UI Enhancement in ColdFusion 9 includes many new AJAX control tags and enhancement to the existing UI controls in ColdFusion 8. The AJAX controls in ColdFusion leverages the ExtJS 3.0 Library for to create Rich UI Controls. The new addition is Accordion navigation to CFLayout tag. The accordion is very useful for compressing many elements in a compacts space in our web sites. Using the below code we can create accordion navigation in ColdFusion very easily.

There are many ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder tutorials are hitting the blogosphere from the ColdFusion community after the release of ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder betas. Just to categorize these articles, blog post, tutorials of ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder beta I’m aggregating all the entries in my blog for CF community reference. I have created two sections in my blog one for ColdFusion 9 tutorials and another one for ColdFusion Builder tutorials. I don’t know whether this will be helpful for the community but I’m putting this because someone like me will surely get benefit.

The public betas of Adobe ColdFusion 9 and new ColdFusion IDE called ColdFusion Builder just hits Adobe Labs.