On June 27th Raghunath Thircovil, Flash platform evangelist and Manju Kiran, Sr.Lead of ColdFusion team are visiting to Chennai for the event. They will be presenting the features of next ColdFusion version code named as Centaur, the new CF code named bolt. The other topics included in the meeting are using Flash builder and Flash catalyst from Adobe.

Adobe BrowserLab a hosted service from Adobe hits Labs today which helps developers and designers for performing cross-browser testing of their web pages and sites.

Adobe AIR is such a great technology from Adobe for developers who wish to use their existing web development knowledge to create Desktop application. If you would like to learn more on using jQuery with AIR please do keep an eye on Andy Mathews and Jason Dean blogs.

Chennai CFUG May month meeting is on tomorrow and the topic is Flex for Web Developers. In this meeting Shahjahan from RIA Digital Solution is presenting about Adobe Flex framework and how web developers can easily learn Flex and how to start there RIA development using Flex.

As part of my learning in UX design I finished reading the “A Project Guide to UX Design”, written by Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler and Published by Peachpit Press. This is one of the first books in UX design category that I read recently. However, the book provided a immense number of ideas on how to create and deliver UX projects, integrating UX designs, adopting best practices.

Adobe ColdFusion 8 won the best Web Development and deployment tool award that aims to solves the day-to-day challenge of Internet Application Development at the Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS) on last Saturday, 2009. ColdFusion 8 was the winner of last year GIDS award as well for the web development category.

Chennai CFUG is having the April month meeting on tomorrow and the topic is CFEclipse 101. In this meeting I’m presenting about using Plug-ins, CF8 Extensions, SnipEx Server and Snippets in CFEclipse for ColdFusion application development.

Adobe announced that they were giving Free Flex builder license for developers currently unemployed to encourage them to learn Flex and for developers who are affected by the current economic conditions. Along with Flex builder license Safari Books Online is offering access there online Adobe Developer Library books for 60 days.

I have been using Eclipse for ColdFusion development both for the personal and at work with the CFEclipse plugin. I’m wondering what other developers in the ColdFusion community are using along with CFEclipse plugin for to perform our routine job easy and more productive. These are the plugins I’m using along with CFEclipse so please share your plugins for ColdFusion development.

Last month while fixing an issue in a legacy code I found some of the queries haven’t had the cfqueryparam for variables in SQL statements. So I thought of fixing all these queries in that application and want to implement cfqueryparam for all parameters. But It will take more time to search all the cfquery that are not having cfqueryparam in SQL statements. However, the QueryParam Scanner by Peter Boughton has made it possible and easier for me.