Great news for ColdFusion developer’s .ColdFusion 8 has been selected under the design, development, and deployment of web development category of the Great Indian Developer Awards 2008. Don’t wait this is an exciting news to share among fellow ColdFusion developers and ColdFusion Community in India.

Vote for our ColdFusion 8 which makes our life happier and easier eternally. Voting is open till May 2^nd.

Cast your Vote at: http://www.developersummit.com/awards.html

Adobe announced Adobe Photoshop Express public beta, a free Rich
Internet Application (RIA) available to anyone who wants to store, sort
and show off digital photos with eye-catching effects. During the public
beta period, Adobe will solicit Photoshop Express user feedback on
product features and functionality, which will continue to evolve over
time. As the newest addition to the Photoshop family line, Photoshop
Express has taken much of Adobe’s best image editing technology and made
it simple and accessible to a new online audience. Photoshop Express
allows users to store up to 2 gigabytes of images online for free, make
edits to their photos, and share them online in creative ways, including
downloading and uploading photos from popular social networking sites
like Facebook.

For the full press release please see:

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200803/032708PhotoshopExpress.html

Join the Adobe Online Developer Week: Mar 24 – 28

Adobe provides end-to-end web development tool suites and solutions. Join us to see what the buzz is all about in this one week long event with 20 sessions covering AIR, Flex, Flash, Mobile, ColdFusion and Dreamweaver technologies.

ColdFusion Events:

What’s New in ColdFusion 8

Date: Monday, March 24, 2008
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM US/Pacific Time / 1:30 PM – 2:30 AM IST Time

ColdFusion Powered Rich Applications for the Internet and Desktop

Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM US/Pacific Time / 1:30 PM – 2:30 AM IST Time

Adding Live Chat with ColdFusion & Adobe Blaze DS

Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008
Time: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM US/Pacific Time / 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM IST Time

All Developer Week sessions will be recorded and posted for online viewing approximately 5 days after the event.

Adobe Online Developer Week 2008

Adobe is hosting a free ActionScript 3.0 tour with Colin Moock. We’ll be
hitting 10 cities around the world beginning the end of Oct. More
details are available on the site at: www.adobeas3tour.com. (Note: final
dates are still tbd for many of the cities, but this years schedule is
available.) Registration is required.

This is a great opportunity for our Flash and Flex customers to learn
AS3 from the man himself.

Adobe Presents – Colin Moock’s ActionScript 3.0: From the Ground Up Tour
Join internationally renowned ActionScript expert Colin Moock for an
intensive full day of ActionScript 3.0 training.

Based on Moock’s best-selling Essential ActionScript 3.0 (O’Reilly,
2007), this one-day event covers everything you need to get started
programming in ActionScript 3.0.

Topics include object-oriented programming, classes, objects, variables,
methods, packages, conditionals, loops, operators, functions, error
handling, event handling, display programming, compiling, and running
programs.

Who should attend?
This course is targeted at Flash users with beginner to intermediate
programming skills.  Those completely new to ActionScript are welcome to
attend, but may feel overwhelmed by the quantity of information in the
course.

This course does not cover expert-level topics. Advanced ActionScript
3.0 programmers are unlikely to encounter new concepts, but are welcome
to attend for a refresher on ActionScript programming fundamentals.

To get more information on dates and locations, and registration please
visit: http://www.adobeas3tour.com/.

Bangalore Event Date : Apr. 29 – Bangalore

On March 1, 2008 we had a great Event at Chennai ColdFusion User Group about the FLEX 3 and AIR 1. We are very happy to see such huge response so far at our Chennai ColdFusion User Group with nearly 60 participants attended the meeting. I would like to thank Uday for his great presentation about FLEX and AIR.

Check more meeting photos Chennai CFUG Event

Join the Chennai ColdFusion User Group for this “can’t miss” meeting (01-Mar-08)

Join the Chennai ColdFusion User Group for this can’t miss meeting! Event: Adobe’s RIA technologies enable you to rapidly build and deploy the most engaging applications across browsers and on the desktop. The Chennai ColdFusion User Group is hosting a special live event to share exciting new information on Adobe’s platform tools and technologies for building RIAs. You’ll see an exclusive user group video presentation by Adobe Chief Software Architect, Kevin Lynch, hear some important product news, plus get your hands on some exclusive schwag and other giveaways. Be part of the fun and excitement and join the rest of the Adobe developer community by participating in this very special event.

Join Chennai ColdFusion User Group on this day and win

-         Adobe AIR T-Shirt for all participants.

-         Lucky winners will receive O’Reilly Books.

-         One lucky winner will get Flex 3 Professional from Adobe.

-         Pizza and Coke.

 
Meeting Schedule

Date: Saturday, March 1.
Time: 11.00 – 12.30
Venue: No.33 Celestial Center, 3^rd Floor, T.Nagar Chennai.
Voice: + 919894443439
Mail: akbarsaitn.cfmx@gmail.com

Participation Benefits:

1. To build ColdFusion Networking in Chennai, India.

2. To share latest Web Technology knowledge among ColdFusion developers.

Confirm your Presence by emailing us at akbarsaitn.cfmx@gmail.com

Regards,
Akbarsiat
Chennai Adobe ColdFusion User Group Team,
www.cfugind.com.

I would like to thank Clark Valberg for suggesting me to read this Ben Nadel blog about “My Coding Methodology – Understanding The Madness And The Man Behind It”. I am a frequent reader of Ben blog it’s great place to find all your ColdFusion questions get answered I like his way of approaching ColdFusion stuff’s.

It’s really a great article about coding standards in all ways. Especially about the code structure conventions for ColdFusion tags, tag attributes, self closing tags etc., and about the code comment in ColdFusion custom tags and components. It’s a must read article for all ColdFusion developers.

Open source at Adobe an article by Dave McAllister in Adobe Edge newsletter Dave is Director of Standards and Open Source at Adobe.

It’s pretty apparent that much of today’s tech world is powered by open source software. From Apache to Eclipse and Adobe Flex to Zope, you’ll find open source in every aspect of development.

I’m director of standards and open source for Adobe’s Platform and Developer business unit. I’ve been at Adobe for more than a year, but my open source and free software roots go way back. I wrote my first free source program at NASA on nonparametric statistical analysis. In the 1990s, I led efforts for open source at SGI for the GNU compilers, including the delivery of GNU compilers as supported products. I drove Linux adoption for SGI, including the release of core products such as XFS and OpenGL as open source. I’ve been involved in many open source–based companies, either driving creation of them (such as Cassatt Corporation, Egenera, and Sistina) or leading efforts to integrate open source into them (such as with NEC and now Adobe).

Over the last year, Adobe has become more directly involved in open source activities. While we’ve always worked with open source, we’ve taken things up a notch to deliver enterprise software as open source, and we’ve moved some of our premiere technologies, such as PDF, to open standards.

What is open source?

No official definition for open source exists. The term was created in Palo Alto, California, in 1998. In short, it is the ability to use, study, and modify the source code as you wish, without additional licensing costs. But it can also be considered a licensing term, a manifesto for computer users, or even a distribution model for software.

I think of open source as a conversation in source code, including the ability to change the conversation in unforeseen ways. Of course, that implies that proprietary code is a monologue.

Open source rules

Open source rules are simple enough:

• Allow free redistribution
• Allow source code access
• Permit derived works
• Protect the integrity of the author’s source code

These are clear, common-sense rules. (They are also debatable, but that gets us into licensing hell.) The official version of these rules from the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a bit longer and is focused more on a certification status. OSI rules concentrate more on the licensing of actual software or code. They don’t express how a company should approach open source.

So what are the common sense rules for using open source from a corporate view? They are even easier.

Rule 1: Give credit where credit is due

If you use someone else’s program, work, or code fragments, give him or her credit. This actually should go beyond open source; it’s a good rule for life. For example, when I was at Cassatt Corporation, we built a complex automation control system that makes use of other programs, and thus we created a thanks page. (Don’t ask why it’s in the legal section.) If you notice, it’s lengthy and yet clearly recognizes that using open source for development and delivery reduces the development complexity of Cassatt’s data center automation tools.

Rule 2: Return value equivalent to what you receive

Note that this doesn’t say, “Open source your products.” This means that if you get something from open source, give something back. You can give back by recognizing the work of others, releasing code from other projects, hosting projects for others, or opening other significant code.

Who uses open source?

If you are a developer, odds are you use open source. From a survey of decision makers, open source is used by 71% of developers in the world, and 54% of all organizations use some open source in production systems. In fact, half of all companies claim that open source is increasing in use.

Do you use open source? Do you use Linux, OpenOffice, or Samba? How about Apache, Google, Amazon, PayPal, Yahoo, or Firefox? How about Flex, XMP, or Spry?

How Adobe supports open source

Adobe supports open source activities in multiple ways. We work directly with contributions to existing projects, such as WebKit and Eclipse. We work indirectly by supporting Adobe products on open source operating distributions, such as supporting Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash software on Linux distributions. We do pure research on development and make those implementations open source, such as the work with the Adobe Source Libraries. And we are releasing substantial code and products as open source.

These models reflect two types of involvement: hybrid and direct.

Hybrids are products or projects that make use of open source technology as a build element or a stack element. In short, a hybrid uses open source projects to provide benefits to a different product. A hybrid doesn’t just mean getting code; it means adding value in other ways, such as:

• Collaborative models, which enable us to work with others on ambitious projects
• Lower-cost development models, which provide the opportunity for more creative input
• Faster and open development cycles, with substantial improvements in code quality

At the 2007 Open Source Think Tank, the discussion groups felt that all companies are hybrid to some extent. Adobe is a hybrid company. A short list of components we use or work with include WebKit, Eclipse, GNU compilers, and Linux.

Direct contribution is always the place that gets the most press. (As I stated many years ago, Linux itself will only be important when nobody cares that it’s Linux. This is now true). For companies to begin to open code and open source products, they must also understand the drive behind open source. Not everyone immediately understands open source, and the process of education takes time. Fortunately, Adobe is always receptive to new ideas and new directions.

As it makes sense, Adobe will consider opening certain technologies and products to open source. But keep in mind, not all products make sense to open. We need to consider the impact it has on topics such as intellectual property rights (for example, patents, copyrights, and trademarks), revenue, cost, and process. We also need to decide whether such a move will enable our competition to take over a market by corrupting a project.

Over the last year, Adobe has released a lot of software as open source. Most commonly mentioned is the Flex SDK, our programming language for rich Internet applications. Following and accompanying Flex are several related projects: the Flex-Ajax bridge, the Flex-Ajax video bridge, and BlazeDS, a remoting and HTTP-messaging library for applications. Adobe has also released extensible metadata platform (XMP) as open source. In fact, the open source roots of the company can be tracked back several years with the Adobe Source Libraries and the Spry frameworks. Just recently, we followed up our November 2006 release of Tamarin (a virtual machine for ECMAScript) with a code contribution optimized for size and performance. This drop — part of the code repository for the Tamarin project — will enable the Tamarin virtual machine to run in mobile environments.

Today, numerous companies use quality code they received from an open source effort. Adobe will continue to invest in the open source communities and release new and exciting products as open source. After all, open source clearly leads to innovation and development of creative applications — and, at Adobe, we believe we have technologies and tools that can accelerate that innovation.

 Orginal Source:http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/february2008/articles/article7/index.html?trackingid=BSFZT

The Spry framework for Ajax from Adobe Labs is a JavaScript library that provides easy-to-use yet powerful Ajax functionality that allows designers to build pages that provide a richer experience for their users. It is designed to take the complexity out of Ajax and allow designers to easily create Web 2.0 pages.

The Spry framework is a way to incorporate XML, JSON or HTML data into pages using HTML, CSS, and a minimal amount of JavaScript. The Spry framework is HTML-centric, and easy to implement for users with basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The framework was designed such that the markup is simple and the JavaScript is minimal. By building the front-end of your web application with Spry you enable a more efficient designer-developer workflow by keeping UI separated from back-end application logic. You can view the demos and samples created by Spray.

 Demo: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/demos/

InsideRIA.com is an online community developed by O’Reilly and sponsored by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Our goal is to create an invaluable resource for information on the ever-changing state of design and development of rich Internet applications (RIAs).

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