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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.

Yahoo! Maps AS3 Component

The all-new Yahoo! Maps component for Flex 3 enables you to add a map to a wide-range of web and desktop applications. Included in the API is support for other Yahoo! APIs including the geocoder, local search and traffic APIs along with an advanced marker and overlay manager to allow you to easily represent data on the map.

Using the YahooMap component in your Flash, Flex, Ajax or AIR projects gives you the ability to develop anything from a simple map mash-up to full application utilizing Yahoo! Maps.

Link : http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/maps/