Adobe has announced a critical Security Bulletin for ColdFusion versions (9.0, 8.0.1, 8.0, and 7.0.2) yesterday. This update is for a vulnerability identified in BlazeDS 3.2 and its earlier versions.

Chennai CFUG is having its monthly meeting on February 18, 2010, about getting started with ORM in ColdFusion 9. In this meeting Himavanth from Adobe engineering team will present about the Object Relation Mapping features in CF 9. Also, covers on using ColdFusion 9 ORM features to create Rapid CF Applications. 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)

I experienced some problems while installing ColdFusion 8 and configuring IIS7 on my Windows 7. Fortunately I got it solved immediately after referring to the solution at the web about configuring IIS 7 to work with ColdFusionby Dale Fraser, Paul Kukiel and Sameer Gupta. I am unsure why this problem is not addressed by Adobe, and I heard even with ColdFusion 9 the problem exist. Let’s hope Adobe will fix this issue with the upcoming ColdFusion 9 Update 1.

This post is to demonstrate how quickly we can include Highslide JS to blogCFC in a four simple steps. Highslide JS is an open source JavaScript image/gallery library and is free Non-commercial use. Highslide will be extremely useful in placing full-size images without worrying about the blog layout. Over here are the steps on how we can include Highslide to blogCFC.

Tried and utilized some database administration tools for MySQL, but I felt like something was missing. Recently, started using Navicat for MySQL db management tool that provides what I required. It contains features that can be used to manage databases with a minimal amount of time.

ColdFusion Builder provides a new option to set default contents in the newly created cfm/cfc files. These features are helpful to capture some regular code blocks.

ColdFusion Builder Beta 3 is now available at Adobe Labs. This release includes many new features and one of my favorite is AIR Application development support. Some of the new features included with this release are as follows.

Object Relation mapping is one of the key feature in CFWheels. It makes things easier to start using ORM in applications. The ORM configuration is implemented by creating a mapping between a db table and CF component of the application. To demonstrate ORM feature, lets create a utility to list the tags with edit/delete/add options in a table.

ColdFusion on Wheels 1.0, the production ready version hits the web today. I haven’t utilized it before and wanted to discover its features over the other frameworks available for ColdFusion. Installation is simple without worrying about setting any configuration variables. Here is the simple three steps installation of the framework in windows with IIS.

The public beta of Adobe AIR 2 hits the Adobe Labs today. The new features the beta release as mentioned in Adobe Labs are follows: