The wait is over finally we have the Adobe DevSummit at Chennai on coming November 24th with Excellent Sessions by the Adobe Team and Awesome Community Geeks. The registrations are already opened now having only limited seats, so hurry up and grab your gold pass for this Free Full day Event at Chennai Taj Coromandel.

Adobe DevSummit Agenda: http://bit.ly/2oPxi9
Adobe DevSummit Registration: http://bit.ly/3AvfEf

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.

Books Details

• CF WACK Printed Books 2 copies.
• CF 8 Developer Tutorial Printed Books by PACKT Publishing 2 Copies.
• CF 8 Developer Tutorial e-books by PACKT Publishing 2 Copies.

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:

• ColdFusion 9 Product Editions - http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/editions/
• ColdFusion 9 Press Release - http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200910/AdobeColdFusion9NowAvailable.html
• Customer Stories with super UI - http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/customers/
• ColdFusion 9 Cloud Computing and EULA Changes - http://www.terrenceryan.com/blog/post.cfm/coldfusion-9-eula-changes
• ColdFusion 9 Features - http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/features/index.html

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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

There are many ColdFusion 9 tutorials 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 the 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 for to aggregate these 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.

I welcome any suggestions, corrections and inputs form the Community on the aggregating entries.

ColdFusion 9 Tutorials - http://www.akbarsait.com/cf9tutorials.cfm

ColdFusion Builder Tutorials - http://www.akbarsait.com/cfbuildertutorials.cfm

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

Download ColdFusion 9

Download ColdFusion Builder

The new features of ColdFusion 9 as mentioned in Adobe Labs:

• Office file interoperability to easily read, write and update spreadsheets
• Server Manager to centrally manage multiple ColdFusion servers, simplifying administration of your environment across clusters
• ColdFusion as a Service to access ColdFusion services through AMF and SOAP without writing CFCs
• Built in Adobe AIR Local/Remote Database Synchronization
• Object Relational Mapping to build database independent applications without writing SQL
• New AJAX controls including multimedia, mapping and more
• Enhanced Caching to improve performance of your ColdFusion applications

Related ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder Articles:

1. Introduction to Adobe ColdFusion Builder Beta by Ben Forta.
2. Introduction to Adobe ColdFusion 9 Beta by Ben Forta.
3. Overview of ColdFusion 9 by Raymond Camden.
4. ColdFusion 9 Reference http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/index.html
5. Getting started with Adobe ColdFusion Builder beta by Simon Free.
6. Introducing ORM in Adobe ColdFusion 9 beta by Mark Mandel.
7. Reinventing SOA in Adobe ColdFusion 9 beta and ColdFusion Builder beta by Nicholas M. Tunney .
8. ColdFusion 9 videos http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/coldfusion9/videos/
9. ColdFusion 9 Bug Base http://cfbugs.adobe.com/cfbugreport/flexbugui/cfbugtracker/main.html#bugId=78705
10. ColdFusion Builder Bug Base http://cfbugs.adobe.com/bugreport/flexbugui/cfbugtracker/main.html#bugId=78686

The expert authors of Flex 3 in Action have one goal—to help you get down to business with Flex 3.

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This book is the ideal introduction to using OpenLDAP for Application Developers and will also benefit System Administrators running OpenLDAP. Written by Matt Butcher, Mastering OpenLDAP will teach readers how to build a directory using OpenLDAP, and then employ this directory in the context of the network, taking a practical approach that emphasizes how to get things done. It also delves into theoretical aspects of LDAP, but only where understanding the theory helps to answer practical questions. This book is organized into three major sections: the first section covers the basics of LDAP directory services and the OpenLDAP server; the second focuses on building directory services with OpenLDAP; in the third section of the book, users will be taught how to integrate OpenLDAP with other applications and services on the network.

For more information, please visit: http://www.packtpub.com/OpenLDAP-Developers-Server-Open-Source-Linux/book

Xen Virtualization provides a fast and practical guide to supporting multiple operating systems with the Xen hypervisor. Xen supports several operating systems—Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and NetBSD. It enables users to easily test, deploy and run their software and services on multiple operating systems with resource isolation and great performance. Xen is one of the most popular open source projects in the world and vendors like IBM, Sun, HP, RedHat and Novell are working on integrating Xen into their Linux servers. This concise handbook is ideal for professionals who want a user-friendly reference beside them while they get working with Xen and virtualization. Its easy-to-navigate content offers bite-sized walkthroughs for a wide variety of common virtualization tasks using Xen.

For more information, please visit:  http://www.packtpub.com/xen-virtualization-open-source-linux-servers/book

jQuery has been a phenomenal success, with many newcomers to the world of JavaScript frameworks choosing it, and many developers moving to it from other frameworks. jQuery UI is tipped to follow suit, and has already seen massive growth and take-up, with more success to follow. jQuery UI is a collection of engaging widgets and essential interaction-helpers that can help drastically reduce the amount of code you need to write and the amount of time you need to spend developing. Each component comes with a wide range of easy-to-use configurable properties and methods. This book will give you a head start in learning jQuery UI; exposing the APIs behind the complete range of components as of version 1.5.4, and including much of the functionality of version 1.6 of the library. Each component is methodically and consistently looked at, with many functional examples.

You can read more about the book here: http://www.packtpub.com/user-interface-library-for-jquery/book/

Ext JS was developed by a unified team of programmers working toward a single goal—to provide a consistent core user interface and interaction library. Ext JS really shines in making web applications easy-to-use and intuitive. Ext JS has the unique advantage of being the only client-side UI library that also works as an application development library. Learning Ext JS will help developers create rich, dynamic, and AJAX-enabled web applications that look good and perform beyond the expectations of their users. From the building blocks of the application layout, to complex dynamic Grids and Forms, this book will guide users through the basics of using Ext JS, giving them the knowledge required to create rich user experiences beyond typical web interfaces. It will also provide users with the tools they need to use AJAX, by consuming server-side data directly into the many interfaces of the Ext JS component library. If you are a web application developer, it's a great library to have in your arsenal.

For more information, pleasevisit: http://www.packtpub.com/learning-ext-js/book/