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Bangalore CF UG welcomes all CF professionals and technocrats to "ColdFusion Builder Usability Study" discussion. The Adobe Engineering team will give us brief introduction to ColdFusion Builder . A Hands-on the key features in ColdFusion Builder & the Tips and Tricks to code faster with CF. This session will also include a usability study where in the users will be given a problem statement. The inputs from the user will be taken into consideration for CFB2.0


Speakers:
1. Bhakti Pingale, Software Engineer, Adobe, Bangalore
2. Dipanwita Sarkar, Senior Lead Software Engineer, Adobe, Bangalore
3. Sharan Grandigae, Senior User Experience Designer, Adobe, Bangalore


Date: 5th April, 2009 - 5PM to 7PM
Venue: Adobe India Systems, #5 Salarpuria Infinity, Ground Floor, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore -560029

You can RSVP here for this event.  http://cfbuilder.eventbrite.com

       Adobe is planning to conduct a half day Usability study and Introduction session on ColdFusion Builder in Adobe Bangalore office and would like your help and inputs for the same. As you must be aware that adobe have released Flash Builder and ColdFusion Builder on 22nd March 2010 and adobe would want our UG members & CF Developers in Bangalore to familiarize themselves with ColdFusion Builder.
Adobe would want to take this opportunity to also conduct a Usability study which will help them to make CFB  better.

Details of the session and study are as follows:

Event             -  First Hands on ColdFusion Builder and Usability Study
Venue            - Adobe Bangalore Office
Expected Date - Around 31st March 2010

Session Description :–

          This session will cover an introduction to ColdFusion Builder by the Adobe Engineers themselves! A Hands-on the key features in ColdFusion Builder and the Tips and Tricks to code faster with CF. This session will also include a usability study where in the users will be given a problem statement. The inputs from the user will be taken into consideration for CFB2.0. There will be a free lunch.

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Good news to all coldfusion developers; Today Coldfusion builder is released. This is the first dedicated IDE (not just a code editor) for coldfusion. If you are a CF guy, you should try this,

http://www.adobe.com/go/trycoldfusionbuilder

Coldfusion Builder is coming along with Flash builder 4 Premium Edition which is also released on today. try it out, Happy coding.

I made small css based locale switcher with theme. You can see the demo here. In this example, common.css has generic style definations for page elements. gray.css has india locale and gray theme style definations. yellow.css has US locale and yellow theme style definations. Below 3 lines of javascript code will switch locale as well as theme.

<script>
function changeTheme(){
    var obj = document.getElementById("themeContainer"); 
    obj.className = (obj.className=='gray')?'yellow':'gray'; 
}
</script>

you can download this example here.

While trying to implement samfarmer blog entry example, I found a small UI issue in CF Grid. In My local machine, I installed CF 9 as "Build-in web server" then I configured my web servers using "Web Server Configuration Tool". So I can run my CFM codes in IIS, Apache as well as in build-in web server based upon client requests.

I run the Samfarmer's code in build-in web server's web root. It was working fine.

<cfquery name="getArt" datasource="cfartgallery">
select ARTID, ARTNAME, DESCRIPTION, ISSOLD, PRICE, CURRENT_DATE aDate 
from ART 
</cfquery>
<cfdump var="#getArt#" top="10">

<cfform>
<cfgrid format="html" name="art" query="getArt" align="left" selectmode="edit">
    <cfgridcolumn name="artname" type="string_noCase">
    <cfgridcolumn name="isSold" type="boolean">
    <cfgridcolumn name="price" type="numeric">
    <cfgridcolumn name="aDate" type="date">
</cfgrid>
</cfform>

While I try to run the code from IIS web root. I got follwoing JS error in Firebug. I know it is because of JS,CSS file path issue.

"ColdFusion is not defined
 ColdFusion.Ajax.importTag('CFGRID');
 http://localhost/cfgridNewDataType.cfm at Line 20"

I imported the JS, CSS file paths using cfajaximport.

<cfajaximport scriptsrc="http://localhost:8500/CFIDE/scripts" csssrc="http://localhost:8500/CFIDE/scripts/ajax" />
<cfquery name="getArt" datasource="cfartgallery">
select ARTID, ARTNAME, DESCRIPTION, ISSOLD, PRICE, CURRENT_DATE aDate 
from ART 
</cfquery>
<cfdump var="#getArt#" top="10">
<cfform>
<cfgrid format="html" name="art" query="getArt" align="left" selectmode="edit">
    <cfgridcolumn name="artname" type="string_noCase">
    <cfgridcolumn name="isSold" type="boolean">
    <cfgridcolumn name="price" type="numeric">
    <cfgridcolumn name="aDate" type="date">
</cfgrid>
</cfform>

After did sorting in a column I found below UI issue. x-grid3-sort-icon pointing to /CFIDE/scripts/ajax/resources/ext/images/default/s.gif instead of http://localhost:8500/CFIDE/scripts/ajax/resources/ext/images/default/s.gif

Is it Issue? I am not sure, May be I missed some argument.