Adobe announces three eSeminar series on ColdFusion 8 from September 17, 2008 to October 15, 2008.You can find more details at Adobe.

eSeminar Titles
1.ColdFusion‐powered Rich Internet Applications ‐ Sep 17, 2008

2.Beyond HTML: Using Ajax, PDF, and More to Create Engaging Applications with ColdFusion 8 ‐ Sep 24, 2008

3.ColdFusion and AIR supply calendaring system for San Diego Department of Child Support Services (SDDCSS) ‐ Oct 15, 2008

Here is the link to register for the eSeminar Registration: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=1345643.

ColdFusion 8 added the functionality of retrieving the Auto-Generated key ID in the result structure of the CFQuery after the insert operation which is specific to each databases used.

Database Specific Auto-Generated Keys:
SQL Server: IDENTITYCOL
MySQL: GENERATED_KEY
Sybase: SYB_IDENTITY
Informix: SERIAL_COL
Oracle: ROWID

ColdSpring - Spring Framework for ColdFusion has announced the final release ColdSpring 1.2 to download and the next thing is that ColdSpring 1.2 is reloaded with a pretty good new website which looks very great.

Get ColdSpring 1.2 at: http://www.coldspringframework.org/
Brain Kotek Quick Start Guide: http://www.coldspringframework.org/coldspring/examples/quickstart/

Charlie Arehart well known ColdFusion Community geek new site CF411.com will help you to find Tools and Resources for your any CFML needs. So bookmark it and before searching any resources for ColdFusion in Google use CF411.com.

Finally following the Flex way Adobe announces ColdFusion is Free for Students and Faculties. This will help many of us in promoting ColdFusion to Colleges and Institutions. Especially in India it will be big booster which will help many of us in promoting ColdFusion to students and Computer Science faculties. Thanks Adobe for this great announcement.

Here is the Link to go :https://freeriatools.adobe.com/coldfusion

More Informations to Read:

Kristen Schofield's Blog Post:http://www.webbschofield.com/index.cfm/2008/9/2/ColdFusion-8-Now-Available-to-Students-and-Educators-for-Free
Ben Forta Blog Post : http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2008/9/2/ColdFusion-Now-Free-For-Educational-Use
ColdFusion FAQ : http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/faq/

I'd like to thank Simon Free for his presentation to India CFUG. The presentation can view online at https://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a200985228/p92985093/.

Chennai ColdFusion User Group Next Meeting is on July 25, 2008 and will discuss about CF Software Architecture for Web 2.0. In this session Simon Free will discuss how best to architect your CF code so that it can be easily extended to be used with the default CF8 AJAX features, as well as Flex and Lifecycle. Simon will take a simple application and see what steps you must take to extend it to work in these technologies.

This will be an online meeting and you can find more information about meeting at CFUG India.

ColdFusion Positions In Chennai and Hyderabad(India)

• Petra Technologies Inc (Chennai, India) is looking for a ColdFusion Consultant with minimum Experience. Requirements include 10G Oracle Database, MVC Framework skills, as well as Knowledge in AJAX, Flash, XML, CSS will be added advantage. Contact Joshua.

• Clavib (Hyderabad, India) is looking for an Experience ColdFusion developer with Strong Database Knowledge with 5 Years of Experience in IT. Contact Kalyan Kumar.