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.
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.
