Session 1: Flex 3 in RIA Development

This session will cover the basic overview of Adobe Flex 3 and about developing Rich Internet Application using Flex by N.S.Devraj.

Session 2: It's Going To Be Brilliant ‐ Adobe CS4 Launch Party

Be one of the first to see the next big thing from Adobe on 27 Sep 2008 with Chennai Adobe ColdFusion User Group. Join in to see and hear first hand how something very special will help you get to brilliant faster. Save the date and get a good look at what's to come.

If you would like to participate in the Adobe CS4 special webcast on 23 September, 2008, you can sign up here at http://adobe.istreamplanet.com/.

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

Dropbox allows you to share and store your files, folders, photos online. Storing data over Dropbox is as easiest like just drag and drop your files and folders into Dropbox folder in your PC and it will get automatically synchronized with the Dropbox servers and goes online to your web account.

Get Your Dropbox at : http://www.getdropbox.com/
Info about Dropbox launch: http://blog.getdropbox.com/?p=13

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/

Google Chrome is very fast indeed when loading the GMail, Reader, Notes, Docs, iGoogle, Calendar and other Google products and other web sites also loaded very faster than other browsers. Installation is very easy and I have asked to close my Firefox so that Chrome can import bookmarks and other stuffs form Firefox. Here is the list of features I have impressed more with Google Chrome.

Application Shortcut feature is great and you can create shortcuts in desktop, quick launch bar and Start menu for your favorite sites.