Adobe officially announced the curriculum for ColdFusion for devs who want to learn ColdFusion. This is an amazing stuff from Adobe for ColdFusion community after the announcement of ColdFusion 8 Enterprise Edition is free for Students and Faculties.

This post is to show how we can create a yearly archive pod in blogCFC. I have recently modified my blogCFC design and I’m really happy on that customization. So the first thing we need to do is adding a new function in the blog.cfc component which is under org > camden > blog folder in your blog root.

Problem: I got an issue when I installed the CFEclipse in one of my system at work place. The installed versions are Eclipse 3.3.2 Europa and CFEclipse 1.3.2 beta. In previous version of CFEclipse we have the option for enabling line numbers by selecting “Windows > Preferences > CFEclipse > Editor > Show Line Number Checkbox”. But this is not available in CFEclipse 1.3.2. There is another way for enabling is by right clicking the editor and check marking the “Show Line Numbers” this is also not worked for me. After goggling I have found the solution from CFEclipse discussion group.

After the Oscar fever here is another big award session and conference called Great India Developer Awards is an annual event happens in India. The event includes various sessions and workshops. Last time ColdFusion won the Award for best Web Development tool. This year ColdFusion, Flex and other Adobe products are nominated fewer then 6 tags. The nominated tags are

Adobe has released the AIR 1.5.1 update with a new feature and with number of bug fixes. The Adobe AIR 1.5.1 is available on the Adobe AIR download center.

McGraw-Hill Education (Noida, India) is looking for Manager, Sr. Software Engineer, Software Engineer with minimum of 5 years Experience in web technologies and minimum of 2 years experience in ColdFusion. Other requirement includes experience in Oracle Database or SQL Server, HTML and Javascript. Good knowledge in system administration, web server configuration, Adobe Flash, Flex and Actionscript is an added advantage. Contact Irfan Mohd or reach him at +91 9711987810 for more details.

Excellent news for ColdFusion developers in India as ColdFusion 8 is selected as the Winner for Web Development Award by Great India Developer summit 2008. As per the Great India Developer Summit, ColdFusion is considered as the best web development/deployment tool that help developers/designers push the boundaries of the web.

Chennai ColdFusion User Group is having a meeting about using CFEclipse for ColdFusion Application development on coming February 14. In this meeting I’m presenting about using ColdFusion 8 Eclipse debugger, CRUD Wizard, using Snippets and about using the available plug-ins with CFEclipse that makes the ColdFusion application development and deployment easy.

Finally Adobe Community Help added ColdFusion to their search index which includes excellent selection of ColdFusion resources, tutorial and adobe documentation for ColdFusion.

This is a quick guide for setting up the AIR SDK and running your HTML based AIR Desktop Application on windows operating system. This topic might be an old one for seasoned AIR developers but I hope this is useful for AIR beginners like me.