
I'm happy to announce another ColdFusion Cookbook contest, as we all know Adobe recently launched the new ColdFusion Cookbook section. As of now the ColdFusion Cookbook has 123 great recipes. So I'm calling all the ColdFusion developers for to reach the next target of 200 recipes in ColdFusion Cookbook section.
To encourage the Cookbook Contribution we are running a contest and the details are same as Ed announcement for 100 ColdFusion recipes contest. Once we reached 200 contributions, we will do the drawing for the CF WACK and CF 8 Developer Tutorial books. If you contributed 5 of the 101-200 recipes, you would have 5 entries in the drawing; if you contribute 10 of the 101-200 recipes, you would have the chance for 10 entries in the drawing. So Contribute and share your recipes and Win ColdFusion Books.
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Thanks to PACKT Publishing for sponsoring the 4 copies of CF 8 Developer Tutorials books and Ed Sullivan for giving the CF WACK books for the contest.
Finally the wait is over for CF Community to grab ColdFusion 9. Yes Adobe announced the release of ColdFusion 9 and product is available for purchase. And also the ColdFusion Builder Beta 2 is released and available at Adobe Labs. Related Links:
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This book provides comprehensive information on various aspects of Flex 3 and ActionScript 3.0. Written by Flex evangelist, Satish Kore, Flex 3 with Java, will teach readers how to develop efficient and seamless Flex applications, communicate with JSP and then process data sent by the server. Developers will learn about the integration of a Java backend, using BlazeDS 3.2 with Flex, and will be introduced to the various aspects of Flex 3 which include creating custom components, debugging the application in the production environment, using RPC services, styling applications using external CSS and internationalizing. Furthermore, users will be able to build an end-to-end Flex e-commerce application using all major features of Flex covered throughout the book.
For more information, please visit: http://www.packtpub.com/flex-3-with-java/book

Learning the Yahoo! User Interface Library introduces the popular open-source YUI JavaScript library and takes the user through each of the fully released components in detail. This book covers all released components which include utility, control, core file, and CSS tool. Besides giving you a deep understand of the YUI library, this book will expand the reader’s knowledge of object-oriented JavaScript programming, as well as strengthen their understanding of the DOM and CSS.
For more information, please visit: http://www.packtpub.com/yahoo!-user-interface-library-yui

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.
More details about the Event here - http://www.endtoend.in/ete2009/adobe/devsummit/mailer.html
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I'm posting this as a reminder to myself since I've had to do this twice in the last few weeks and have to Google it each time... To install TrueType Fonts on Linux so that Java can access them ought to be as simple as copying them to $JAVA_HOME/l...Source: coldfusionBloggers.org Feed
As with my previous blog, there are some more things that we as a developer need to be very weary off. One of these is the relationship between tables where one table can have a many relationship with another.
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the biggest news was probably the timeframe announcement for Apache Tomcat version 7. According to Jim Jagielski, chairman of the Apache board of directors, Tomcat is used in at least 75% of Java-based websites. Mark Thomas, a member of the Apache Tomcat Project Management Committee, said that the alpha release of Tomcat 7 is expected in December 2009 or January 2010. DZone spoke with Thomas for an exclusive interview about the upcoming version of Tomcat.via java.dzone.com
Cool new stuff coming in Tomcat 7, and I didn't realize an alpha was so close.
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After my previous post on how to quickly and easily take my style of formatting and strip it out of ColdFusion code , some people suggested that I make a function that goes back the other way (adding my style of formatting into ColdFusion code). While I love this concept, the problem is actually quite a bear! Removing formatting doesn't really require much understanding of the code - you s ... Read More »Source: Latest Adobe News by Smart Category by Ricardo Parente
This is a 6-month contract for a ColdFusion developer in Harrysburg, PA. COLDFUSION, JAVA, MVC frameworks, familiar with UML, HTML, SQL, Web Security, XML/XSLT/FOP, MVC frameworks (MACH II, MODEL GLUE, Spring MVC), DB2 and SQL concepts Here is the link.Source: Latest Adobe News by Smart Category by Ricardo Parente
ColdFusion Web Developer Needed for a Great Tempe Location! Immediate need for a ColdFusion Web Developer to help complete an ERP conversion project. Looking for someone with 3 to 4 years experience in ColdFusion development, with a focus on development for eCommerce sites. Ideal candidate would have at least the 3 to 4 years ColdFusion experience, [...]Source: Akbarsait's Blog
I'm happy to announce another ColdFusion Cookbook contest, as we all know Adobe recently launched the new ColdFusion Cookbook section. As of now the ColdFusion Cookbook has 123 great recipes. So I'm calling all the ColdFusion developers for to reach the next target of 200 recipes in ColdFusion Cookbook section. [More]Source: Akbarsait's Blog
Today Rakshith gave a wonderful and very informative presentation on about ColdFusion 9 and Abode AIR integration to Chennai CFUG. The recording of the presentation is available here and I have also posted the recording of the presentation to Charlie Arehart's UGTV site.Source: Akbarsait's Blog
Chennai CFUG is having its October month meeting on coming 22nd and the topic is ColdFusion 9 and Adobe AIR Integration. In this meeting Rakshith from Adobe ColdFusion engineering team will present about the ColdFusion 9 and Adobe AIR Integration. Rakshith will discuss about the ColdFusion 9 offline AIR application support, which includes data persistence and synchronization. This will be an Adobe Connect meeting. Please see the event details on Chennai CFUG site at Adobe Groups for more information and to RSVP (Login with your Adobe ID to RSVP).