I am using BlogCFC for my website www.akbarsait.com and I would like to thank ColdFusion Jedi Master Raymond Camden for his BlogCFC one among the excellent open source software by him for the ColdFusion Community.If you’re using BlogCFC and not entered your information please use this link Call to BlogCFC users to enter your website information.

Join the Chennai ColdFusion User Group Meeting to Learn about Benefits of a ColdFusion Coding Standard:

Join the Chennai ColdFusion User Group meeting on about Benefits of a ColdFusion Coding Standards Ben Nadel to discuss the benefits of coding standards. This will be online meeting. The recorded meeting will be available on Saturday at Chennai ColdFusion User Group.

Speaker Bio:

Ben Nadel has worked with ColdFusion for eight years and is a super ColdFusion enthusiast. He blogs regularly about all aspects of web development on his personal site, www.bennadel.com, and does his best to give back to the ColdFusion community through online code demos and his “Ask Ben” blog posts. He is an Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX7 developer as well as an Adobe Community Expert in ColdFusion. Currently, he is also the Lead Software Engineer at Epicenter Consulting where he builds highly customized business software and evangelizes Interface Driven Architecture.

Meeting Schedule

Date: Saturday, April 26.
Time: 10.00 – 11.00
Venue: No.33 Celestial Center, 3^rd Floor, T.Nagar Chennai.

Register for the Event at: http://chennaicfugaprilmeeting.eventbrite.com/

Participation Benefits:

1. To build ColdFusion Networking in Chennai, India.

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

3. Lucky winners will receive Books.

Venue Map

Note:

Join ColdFusion India Community forum to share and post your ColdFusion related information and questions.

Regards,
Akbarsait
Chennai Adobe ColdFusion User Group,
www.chennai.cfug.in

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

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.

Two More ColdFusion Surveys

Orginal message from Ben Forta Blog

As part of our “Centaur” planning, please fill in the ColdFusion 8 Features Used survey and the ColdFusion Platform And Vendors survey. And the more respondents the better, so forward these URLs to every CF developer you know.

Create a RSS Feed out of your Share Files

By : Ramdon Camden

Adobe’s Share service doesn’t have RSS feeds yet (as far as I know), but there is no reason you can’t role your own! Here is a quick example.
The first piece is ShareCFC, my open source wrapper for the Share service. Grab the bits – get the required logon bits, and then create an instance:

<cfapplication name=”shareapi”>

<cfset appkey = “harrypotter”>

<cfset sharedsecret = “parishiltonisactuallyreallysmart”>

<cfif not isDefined(“application.share”)>

<cfset application.share = createObject(“component”, “share”).init(“ray@camdenfamily.com”,”password-noreally”,appkey,sharedsecret)>

</cfif>

The initial logon to the Share service can be a bit slow so the cache here is important. Next we grab the files. Now the Share service is still in development and currently has some performance issues (like Lindsey has drinking issues), but I’ve been assured this will be fixed soon. For my testing I cached the results. To get all of my Share files it is one simple CFC call:

<cfif not isDefined(“application.files”)>

<cfset application.files = application.share.list()>

</cfif>

<cfset files = application.files>

I copied from the application scope to save myself some typing. So far so good? We don’t want to create an RSS feed that points to items that folks can’t use, so let’s filter out the non-public stuff (and maybe this is a good idea to add to my code):

<!— filter by public —>

<cfquery name=”files” dbtype=”query”>

select *

from files

where sharelevel = ‘public’

</cfquery>

Last but not least – lets make the feed. I create a column map to define columns to CFFEED required items, and create a struct of metadata:

<cfset cmap = structNew()>

<cfset cmap.publisheddate = “createddate”>

<cfset cmap.title = “name”>

<cfset cmap.rsslink = “recipienturl”>

<cfset meta = structNew()>

<cfset meta.title = “My Public Share Files”>

<cfset meta.description = “All of my public files from Share”>

<cfset meta.link = “http://www.coldfusionjedi.com”>

<cfset meta.version = “rss_2.0″>

And finally – serve up the RSS:

<cffeed action=”create” properties=”#meta#” query=”#files#”

columnMap=”#cmap#” xmlVar=”feedXML”>

<cfcontent type=”text/xml” reset=”true”><cfoutput>#feedxml#</cfoutput>

Easy peasy, lemon squeezy as my son would say. I see two potential things I can add to ShareCFC now – an optional share level filter to List(), and perhaps an automatic way to return the data in the RSS form.

Source : http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2007/11/2/Create-a-RSS-Feed-out-of-your-Share-Files