Akbarsait's Blog

Contribute to ColdFusion Cookbook and Win CF WACK and CF 8 Developer Tutorial Books

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:48:00 -0700

I'm happy to announce another ColdFusion Cookbook contest, as we all know Adobe recently launched the new ColdFusion Cookbook section. As of now the ColdFusion Cookbook has 123 great recipes. So I'm calling all the ColdFusion developers for to reach the next target of 200 recipes in ColdFusion Cookbook section. [More]

Chennai CFUG: ColdFusion 9 and Adobe AIR Integration Recording

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:35:00 -0700

Today Rakshith gave a wonderful and very informative presentation on about ColdFusion 9 and Abode AIR integration to Chennai CFUG. The recording of the presentation is available here and I have also posted the recording of the presentation to Charlie Arehart's UGTV site.

Chennai CFUG Meeting: ColdFusion 9 and Adobe AIR Integration

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:21:00 -0700

Chennai CFUG is having its October month meeting on coming 22nd and the topic is ColdFusion 9 and Adobe AIR Integration. In this meeting Rakshith from Adobe ColdFusion engineering team will present about the ColdFusion 9 and Adobe AIR Integration. Rakshith will discuss about the ColdFusion 9 offline AIR application support, which includes data persistence and synchronization. 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).

ColdFusion 9: New Attributes in CFGrid

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:49:00 -0700

ColdFusion 9 introduces 4 new attributes in CFGrid tag. These attributes are great addition to CFGrid which allows us to expand or collapse the entire grid, we can group the rows in CFGrid by mentioning the group column name which generates a collapsible group of rows in the grid, we can insert a new row in the Grid and we can give a title to the entire CFGrid.
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ColdFusion 9: New Application Level SMTP Sever Settings for CFMail

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:13:00 -0700

ColdFusion 9 shipped with lots of new features that include some new variables which are added to the Application.cfc file. One among them is the new application level SMTP server setting. We can specify the SMTP server setting details to "smtpServersettings" attribute of THIS scope in Application.cfc which takes three values and they are server, username and password as a structure. [More]

Adobe ColdFusion 9 Released

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:31:00 -0700

Finally the wait is over for CF Community to grab ColdFusion 9. Yes Adobe announced the release of ColdFusion 9 and product is available for purchase. And also the ColdFusion Builder Beta 2 is released and available at Adobe Labs. [More]

Mura CMS a Free ColdFusion Content Management System

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:35:00 -0700

After reading many blog post about Mura CMS Yesterday I have downloaded and installed it in my system for to explore its features. Mura CMS is really awesome and having tons of features included within it which makes building, deploying and maintaining web sites and its contents very easier. Apart from its excellent features and functionalities Mura CMS is open source and Free. [More]

Adobe Devsummit Rocks

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:06:00 -0700

On Tuesday August 4th, I attended the Adobe Devsummit at Bangalore. This is my first experience at Adobe Devsummit and all I want to say is that the event was extremely awesome and amazing. There were more than 1200 peoples have attended the event, the event location and arrangements are extremely great. The event was powered by Ben Forta and Serge Jespers keynote presentations on about the Flash Platform tools, ColdFusion, Mobile platform with lots of Demos. There were fantastic sessions by Adobe Flash Platform, ColdFusion and Mobile Platform teams. [More]

Chennai CFUG Event: Flex at Beach on August 08

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:40:00 -0700

On August 08, Chennai Adobe ColdFusion User Group hosting the Flex at Beach Event with Adams Studio India Pvt Ltd at Chennai. Come and learn about the exciting features and discover more about the latest development in Adobe Flex 4, ActionScript, and Flex Frameworks and how to use Java and BlazeDS together with Flex. Don't miss this exciting event and join with us at Beach to learn more about Flex. Book your ticket for the Event here. [More]

The Principles of Successful Freelancing by SitePoint

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 05:07:00 -0700

Yesterday, I finished reading the "The Principles of Successful Freelancing", written by Miles Burke and Published by SitePoint. Deciding to be a freelancer as part-time or full-time is a tough decision but this book will help you to gain all the knowledge you need to have in the freelancing. [More]

Adobe Devsummit at Bangalore

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:13:00 -0700

Ben Forta and Serge Jaspers are coming to Bangalore to present at the Adobe Devsummit at Lalit Ashok, Bangalore on 4th August 2009. The topics are really exciting which includes ColdFusion, Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst, LifeCycle Data Services and many more. So don't miss this wonderful full day event and will see you all there. [More]

ColdFusion 9 UI Enhancements: Creating Accordion Navigation Using CFLayout tag

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:56:00 -0700

The UI Enhancement in ColdFusion 9 includes many new AJAX control tags and enhancement to the existing UI controls in ColdFusion 8. The AJAX controls in ColdFusion leverages the ExtJS 3.0 Library for to create Rich UI Controls. The new addition is Accordion navigation to CFLayout tag. The accordion is very useful for compressing many elements in a compacts space in our web sites. Using the below code we can create accordion navigation in ColdFusion very easily. [More]

Aggregating ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder Tutorials

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:47:00 -0700

There are many ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder tutorials are hitting the blogosphere from the ColdFusion community after the release of ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder betas. Just to categorize these articles, blog post, tutorials of ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder beta I'm aggregating all the entries in my blog for CF community reference. I have created two sections in my blog one for ColdFusion 9 tutorials and another one for ColdFusion Builder tutorials. I don't know whether this will be helpful for the community but I'm putting this because someone like me will surely get benefit. I welcome any suggestions, corrections and inputs form the Community on the aggregating entries.

Public beta of ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder available at Adobe Labs

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:19:00 -0700

The public betas of Adobe ColdFusion 9 and new ColdFusion IDE called ColdFusion Builder just hits Adobe Labs.

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Manju Kiran and Raghunath Thircovil at ChennaiCFUG: ColdFusion and Flash Platform Pre Launch Event

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:11:00 -0700

Yesterday, Manju Kiran and Raghunath Thircovil came to the Chennai ColdFusion User Group for the Adobe ColdFusion and Flash Platform UG Tour. Since it's a one day event we had the sessions on Preview of Adobe Flash Platform, Adobe ColdFusion at morning and hands on session on using Flash Builder and Adobe ColdFusion at afternoon. The event hall is jam-packed with more then 80+ attendees from both the ColdFusion and Flex community from Chennai. Raghu started the Event at 10:30 AM and he talked about the awesome features of Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst with lots of demos. After Raghu presentation, Manju started his session on ColdFusion and Bolt. He walked through the various new features and improvements of upcoming Adobe ColdFusion and continues his session after post lunch because of the tons and tons of questions from attendees. [More]

Chennai CFUG: ColdFusion and Flash Platform Pre Launch Special Event on June 27

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:39:00 -0700

On June 27th Raghunath Thircovil, Adobe Flash Platform Evangelist and Manju Kiran, Sr.Lead Software Engineer Adobe ColdFusion team are coming to Chennai to talk about the Next Version of Adobe ColdFusion code named Centaur, New IDE for ColdFusion code named Bolt and about the latest additions to the Adobe Flash Platform: Adobe Flash Builder and Adobe Flash Catalyst. This is a Full day event with ColdFusion and Flash Platform Session followed by Hands-on training on using Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst and ColdFusion. Come learn about the exciting new features and discover how Centaur, Bolt, Flex, and Flash Catalyst will accelerate your application development. There will be a free lunch, refreshments and giveaways so don't miss this event we have only limited seats. Please Register for the Event here.

Preview of Adobe BrowserLab available at Adobe Labs

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:25:00 -0700

Adobe BrowserLab a hosted service from Adobe hits Labs today which helps developers and designers for performing cross-browser testing of their web pages and sites.
Adobe BrowerLab: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/browserlab/
BrowserLab Extension for Dreamweaver CS4: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/browserlab.html

Creating Windows in HTML and JavaScript AIR Applications

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:25:00 -0700

Adobe AIR is such a great technology from Adobe for developers who wish to use their existing web development knowledge to create Desktop application. If you would like to learn more on using jQuery with AIR please do keep an eye on Andy Mathews and Jason Dean blogs. In my previous post about AIR for Web Developers where I have explained about Installing AIR SDK and creating, testing and running your AIR Application using command prompt in Windows OS and for using Aptana with AIR follow this blog post by Andy Mathews. So now let's starts with a simple example of creating windows in AIR Application. Apart from the initial main window, we can also creates other windows in HTML based AIR application. We can create two types of window and they are called as standard HTML windows which look similar as windows in web browsers and Native windows which look similar to the windows of native Operating system (Windows, Mac, or Linux). [More]

Chennai CFUG Meeting: Flex for Web Developers

Fri, 22 May 2009 09:45:00 -0700

Chennai CFUG May month meeting is on tomorrow and the topic is Flex for Web Developers. In this meeting Shahjahan from RIA Digital Solution is presenting about Adobe Flex framework and how web developers can easily learn Flex and how to start there RIA development using Flex. Check Chennai CFUG on Adobe Groups for more information.

A Project Guide to UX Design by Peachpit Press

Sat, 02 May 2009 10:35:00 -0700

As part of my learning in UX design I finished reading the "A Project Guide to UX Design", written by Russ Unger and Carolyn Chandler and Published by Peachpit Press. This is my first book in UX Design category and I have no chance to read any other books in this category but this book gave me an immense number of ideas and knowledge on how to create and deliver a great user experience projects, integrating UX design on projects, adopting best UX practices and lots more.
From starting to end every chapter in the book is well written and covers on various sections like Project Ecosystem, Project type identification, writing project proposal, doing user Research, and transition of project defining to designing and so on.
A chapter on project proposal for Freelancers and consultants covers all the core components of writing a project proposal from defining a title page to payment schedule, Acknowledgment and project sign-off and what need to be included in each and every part of the project proposal it's really a great chapter for peoples going to start writing their first project proposal. The chapters 4 and 5 describes about the setting up project objectives and different project approaches of covering the common steps need to be include in every Project Plan like, Define, Design, Develop, Deploy and Extend. Another chapter on Business Requirements talks about understanding the current state of the project and how to prioritize requirements based on the project objective and how to plan and run meeting effectively this thing are really helpful for each and everyone who are working as freelancer or as a team member in a company.
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Adobe ColdFusion 8 Won the Web Development and Deployment tool Award at GIDS 2009

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 04:41:00 -0700

I'm really happy to share this with ColdFusion community that Adobe ColdFusion 8 won the best Web Development and deployment tool award that aims to solves the day-to-day challenge of Internet Application Development at the Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS) on last Saturday, 2009. ColdFusion 8 was the winner of last year GIDS award as well for the web development category.
Along with ColdFusion Adobe Flex win the award for Frameworks category which competes with jQuery, Apache Struts, Spring etc., and won the Award. Another winner from Adobe Family is Acrobat Connect Professional for Collaboration solution category which competes with Cisco WebEx, Citrix GoToMeeting, IBM Lotus Connections etc., and won the Award.
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Chennai CFUG Meeting: CFEclipse 101 on April 18

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:51:00 -0700

Chennai CFUG is having the April month meeting on tomorrow and the topic is CFEclipse 101. In this meeting I'm presenting about using Plug-ins, CF8 Extensions, SnipEx Server and Snippets in CFEclipse for ColdFusion application development. Check Chennai CFUG on Adobe Groups for more information.

Free Flex Builder 3 Professional For Unemployed Developers

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:11:00 -0700

Adobe announced that they are giving Free Flex builder license for developers who are currently unemployed to encourage them to learn Flex and for developers who are affected by the current economic conditions. Along with Flex builder license Safari Books Online is offering access there online Adobe Developer Library books for 60 days. The details of getting Free Flex Builder license is available at https://freeriatools.adobe.com/learnflex/ and for more details about this offer read Ben Forta blog at http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2009/4/3/Free-Flex-Builder-3-For-Unemployed-Developers

Eclipse Plugins for ColdFusion

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:58:00 -0700

I have been using Eclipse for ColdFusion development both at my home and work with the CFEclipse plugin and I'm wondering what other developers in the ColdFusion community are using along with CFEclipse plugin for to make our daily job easy and more productive. These are the plugins I'm using along with CFEclipse so please share your plugins for ColdFusion development.
1. CFEclipse ‐ The core for the ColdFusion Development with Eclipse.
2. CF 8 Extensions for Eclipse ‐ This includes Interactive environment for debugging with ColdFusion server, RDS Data view, Log Viewer, ColdFusion Ajax and Flex Wizards.
3. Subclipse ‐ Plugin for Subversion version control system.
4. SnipEx Servers ‐ SnipEx servers are really helpful for to have a handy code snippets for development. I'm using the snippets of CFLib.org by Ray Camden and CFSnippets.org by Todd Sharp both these snippet are very useful.
5. Amateras ‐ Plugin for HTML, CSS, XML and JavaScript with code completion, code outline and code validations. Contents assist for HTML and HTML code preview with source and preview tab feature in Eclipse IDE. Amateras also includes wizards for adding JavaScript libraries, HTML and XML files.
6. XmlBuddy ‐ Plugin for validating XML documents and XML Schemas.

Using QueryParam Scanner

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 07:29:00 -0700

Last month while fixing an issue in a very old code I have found that some of the queries haven't had the cfqueryparam for variables in SQL statements. So I thought of fixing all these queries in that application and want to implement cfqueryparam for all parameters. But It will take more time to search all the cfquery that are not having cfqueryparam in SQL statements correct but QueryParam Scanner by Peter Boughton will make this task very easier for me.
Installing QueryParam Scanner is really easy just download the code from http://www.hybridchill.com/projects/downloads.html or from http://qpscanner.riaforge.org/ and unzipped its content to your web root that's it you have done. Now you can start scanning your applications for all the missing cfqueryparam tags in the cfquery. The UI of QueryParam Scanner is simple and very friendly and it has various options on the result output formats after scanning.
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Adobe ColdFusion 8 Curriculum for Learning

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:17:00 -0700

Adobe officially announced the curriculum for ColdFusion for peoples who want to learn ColdFusion. This is another great stuff from Adobe for ColdFusion community after the announcement of ColdFusion 8 Enterprise Edition is free for Students and Faculties.

The curriculum is designed in such a way to start learning ColdFusion from the scratch for all who want to learn ColdFusion and especially this curriculum will help the students and web developers on learning ColdFusion. The curriculum is classified as two parts as Introduction to ColdFusion and Advance ColdFusion 8 Development. You can read more about the curriculum at here http://www.adobe.com/education/instruction/teach/cfcurriculum.html
Both PDF content of the curriculum can be downloaded from here
1. Introduction to ColdFusion 8 Curriculum.
2. Advanced ColdFusion 8 Development.

Creating a Yearly Archives Pod in blogCFC

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:32:00 -0700

This post is to show how we can create a yearly archive pod in blogCFC. I have recently modified my blogCFC design and I'm really happy on that customization. So the first thing we need to do is adding a new function in the blog.cfc component which is under org > camden > blog folder in your blog root.



	



	Select year(tblblogentries.posted) as bloggedyears
	From	 tblblogentries
	Where	 tblblogentries.blog =  
	group by year(tblblogentries.posted)
	order by bloggedyears desc

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How to Enable Line Numbers in CFEclipse 1.3.2

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:24:00 -0700

Problem: I got an issue when I installed the CFEclipse in one of my system at work place. The installed versions are Eclipse 3.3.2 Europa and CFEclipse 1.3.2 beta. In previous version of CFEclipse we have the option for enabling line numbers by selecting "Windows > Preferences > CFEclipse > Editor > Show Line Number Checkbox". But this is not available in CFEclipse 1.3.2. There is another way for enabling is by right clicking the editor and check marking the "Show Line Numbers" this is also not worked for me. After goggling I have found the solution from CFEclipse discussion group. Solution: Navigate to your Eclipse Workspace and open the File org.cfeclipse.cfml.prefs from "Workspace > .metadata > .plugins >. org.eclipse.core.runtime > .settings" folder and add this line at the end of the page.


lineNumberRuler=true

Close the page and restart CFEclipse. Now you can able to see the line numbers in CFEclipse.

Adobe ColdFusion, Flex, Flash Platform are Nominated for Great Indian Developer Summit 2009

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:29:00 -0700

After the Oscar fever here is another big award session and conference called Great India Developer Awards is an annual event happens in India. The event includes various sessions and workshops. Last time ColdFusion won the Award for best Web Development tool. This year ColdFusion, Flex and other Adobe products are nominated fewer then 6 categories. The nominated categories are

Web Development: ColdFusion & Flash Platform
Frameworks: Flex
Development Environments: Flex Builder
Mobile Development: Device Central
Collaboration Solution Acrobat Connect Professional
Security: LiveCycle Rights Management ES

So don't wait Vote for ColdFusion and other categories of Adobe products.

Adobe AIR 1.5.1 Released

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:58:00 -0700

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.
Read Adobe AIR Team blog for more information.

ColdFusion Positions in Noida and Bangalore (India)

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:48:00 -0700

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.
MindTree Ltd (Bangalore, India) is looking for an Experience ColdFusion developer with Strong Database and Web development Knowledge with 4+ Years of Experience in ColdFusion. Send your resumes to Me .

Adobe ColdFusion 8 Wins the Web Development Award at Great India Developer Summit

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:46:00 -0700

It's been a pride moment for ColdFusion developers and ColdFusion Community in India after hearing the announcement from Great India Developer summit 2008 about ColdFusion 8 is selected as the Winner for Web Development Award. As per the Great India Developer summit ColdFusion is consider as a best web development and deployment tools that are helping developers and designers push the boundaries of the web.

The very interesting news is that ColdFusion 8 is selected as winner for the Award after fighting a neck to neck battle with ASP.NET and Oracle WebCenter. Check out for more details at http://www.developersummit.com/2008/awards.html#web

Chennai CFUG February Meeting: Using CFEclipse for ColdFusion Application Development

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:29:00 -0700

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.

Check Chennai CFUG on Adobe Groups for more information.

Adobe Community Help Includes the ColdFusion Search Engine

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:57:00 -0700

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

Also you can use the OpenSearch plugins of Community Help which allows you to point to your favorite Adobe products at the built-in search field of your Firefox or Internet Explorer browsers.

To add your favorite ColdFusion resource sites or blogs or to tell any suggestion community help team please use this form http://community.adobe.com/help/feedback.html to reach them.

Adobe AIR For Web Developers

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 10:29:00 -0700

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. Download and Install Java JRE or JDK: AIR SDK requires either JRE or JDK to be installed on you computer. If you have JRE or JDK installed in your computer move to next step. You can download Java JRE at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html and the java JDK at http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp. Download and Install AIR SDK: Download AIR SDK at http://www.adobe.com/products/air/tools/sdk/ and choose the windows version. Extract the AIR SDK content to another location on your computer. I have extracted the content to "D:\Program Files\Adobe AIR\AIRSDK\". Note: Please do remember the location you've extracted the SDK. [More]

BlogCFC Redesign

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:24:00 -0700

As part of my 2009 task list and to improve my knowledge in web design I have planned to change my blog look and feel. So I played with the BlogCFC code and want to say that it's really easy to change the entire theme and implement a new look and feel for your 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 new design and thanks for stopping here to read my post.

Adobe Certified Expert For Adobe ColdFusion 8

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:21:00 -0700

I just wanted to share good news with you all that I have completed my ColdFusion 8 Certification and now I’m an Adobe Certified Expert for ColdFusion 8. I finished the exam exactly in 1 hour and for preparation I have spent nearly half an hour daily to learn about the new tags and function in ColdFusion 8 and it took me really 2 months for the certification preparation. After all the hard work and preparation now I’m an ACE for ColdFusion 8.

Free Subversion Repositories for Your Projects

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:25:00 -0700

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. [More]

BOLT An IDE for ColdFusion From Adobe

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:17:00 -0700

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.
Bolt is packed with the following Features:
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Post Your Favorite Flex 3 Feature And Win A Flex 3 Book

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:58:00 -0700

This is a giveaway for India Flex Developers or Flash Developers or beginners who are working or started learning Adobe Flex 3. All that you have to do is just post your favorite Flex 3 features you have more enjoyed while working with Flex and the reason. Five best comments will be selected and the winners will receive Getting Started with Flex 3 book. [More]

Free ColdFusion Training For Students by Chennai ColdFusion User Group, India

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:44:00 -0700

Chennai ColdFusion User Group is giving Free ColdFusion training for Students. This Training is intended to encourage the students to learn the basics of ColdFusion to build compelling Rich Internet Applications (RIA) using Adobe ColdFusion 8. [More]

ColdFusion 8 Developer Tutorial By PACKT Publishing

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:08:00 -0700

Introduction:
ColdFusion 8 Developer Tutorial is written by John Farrar and published by PACKT Publishing. This book is for beginners to learn ColdFusion 8 and its new features in fast track manner without prior ColdFusion knowledge. It also covers the new features of ColdFusion 8 Update 1 release. This book will give you heads-up on not only in ColdFusion but also in the existing web 2.0 technologies and how to integrate them with ColdFusion. [More]