Adobe has released the AIR 1.5.1 update with a new feature and with number of bug fixes. The Adobe AIR 1.5.1 is available on the Adobe AIR download center.

McGraw-Hill Education (Noida, India) is looking for Manager, Sr. Software Engineer, Software Engineer with minimum of 5 years Experience in web technologies and minimum of 2 years experience in ColdFusion. Other requirement includes experience in Oracle Database or SQL Server, HTML and Javascript. Good knowledge in system administration, web server configuration, Adobe Flash, Flex and Actionscript is an added advantage. Contact Irfan Mohd or reach him at +91 9711987810 for more details.

Excellent news for ColdFusion developers in India as ColdFusion 8 is selected as the Winner for Web Development Award by Great India Developer summit 2008. As per the Great India Developer Summit, ColdFusion is considered as the best web development/deployment tool that help developers/designers push the boundaries of the web.

Chennai ColdFusion User Group is having a meeting about using CFEclipse for ColdFusion Application development on coming February 14. In this meeting I’m presenting about using ColdFusion 8 Eclipse debugger, CRUD Wizard, using Snippets and about using the available plug-ins with CFEclipse that makes the ColdFusion application development and deployment easy.

Finally Adobe Community Help added ColdFusion to their search index which includes excellent selection of ColdFusion resources, tutorial and adobe documentation for ColdFusion.

This is a quick guide for setting up the AIR SDK and running your HTML based AIR Desktop Application on windows operating system. This topic might be an old one for seasoned AIR developers but I hope this is useful for AIR beginners like me.

As part of 2009 task lists and to improve my knowledge in web design, I planned to change my blog UI. Hence, I played with the BlogCFC code and want to say it’s incredibly painless to change the entire theme and implement a new template for the blog. All the credits go to ColdFusion Jedi for his brilliant BlogCFC project to CF community. I used styleshout template for the theme and modified the design according to my interest. Let me know what you think about this change and thank you for reading my post.

I wanted to share that I completed my ColdFusion 8 Certification and became an Adobe certified expert for ColdFusion 8 from today. I completed the examination in an hour. For preparation, spent a half-hour daily to learn insights of the tags/functions and that took me two months for the certification preparation. Having that said, I’m happy with this achievement as an ACE for ColdFusion 8.

There are various Free Subversion repositories spaces available for hosting our projects in the web among them here i would like to share some with great features. I had been using Assemble.com Subversion repository for one of my project and they had offered 500 MB of free private repository space but currently Assemble.com have stopped offering free private repositories. Here are the other alternatives for free Private Subversion repositories.

Adobe announced at the day 2 of MAX 2008 about the New ColdFusion IDE codename Bolt. Bolt will be tightly integrated with upcoming ColdFusion 9 codename Centaur.