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Am at the airport waiting to board my flight to San Francisco. Its going to be one looong flight, but still am excited just as everyone else to be at MAX!

See you all at MAX!

Excited to know more about Centaur, the next major release of ColdFusion?

I am sure most of are waiting to know more about Centaur at MAX.

Here’s an update on the session titled ColdFusion Powered AIR

Well, this talk is not just going to be about using ColdFusion as a backend for AIR applications. What will also be presented to you are the exciting features that are coming up in Centaur to build AIR applications!!

 What’s Centaur got to do with AIR?

Centaur will have some nice features centered around AIR Integration with ColdFusion.

What is it going to be?

One of the feature in Centaur will ease building offline applications in AIR.

Tell me more more more…

To know more sign up for the ColdFusion Powered AIR session today!!

Session info: Learn how to build Adobe AIR clients for use with your ColdFusion applications, leveraging offline data support and more. AIR is the powerful new runtime for portable desktop applications. Applications built for AIR are created using Flash, Flex, and other web technologies, making ColdFusion the ideal tool for building back ends.

What the session info does not have yet is that the session will also include Centaur related features.

When: Tuesday, November 18, 3:00pm - 4:00 pm

See you there! :)  

A lot of visitors to my blog wanted to know how to configure upload directories per user or per instance of the rich text editor. Unfortunately, basepath attribute is the way out where you could set different configurations for each instance. Bob Hendren posted a comment that points to a useful link on one of my previous posts. The link shows how you could set the upload directories per individual user and how to set other configurations such as additional file type.

Here’s the link.

I had a couple of posts on how to get the File upload and Spell checker working on the Rich Text Editor control in ColdFusion Ajax. The good news now is that, with ColdFusion 8.0.1 most of that is taken care of and there is hardly anything to be done from your end to get both of those working. I always wanted to post about this. But since the ColdFusion docs talked about these changes to the Rich Text Editor, I kind of refrained from a post. I see interest from a lot of folks to get these functionalities working on the Rich Text Editor. So I believe this post still makes sense.

ColdFusion 8.0.1 has FCKeditor 2.5 as its underlying Rich Text Editor. This version has a lot of enhancements including the safari support in it.

For the File upload functionality on the Rich Text editor, it is just about setting a few parameters in /CFIDE/scripts/Ajax/FCKeditor/fckconfig.js to true. The Image Button, Link, Unlink, Image and Flash icons are now a part of the default toolbar. To enable specific kind of uploads, set the following properties in fckconfig.js to true.

FCKConfig.LinkBrowser = true;
FCKConfig.ImageBrowser = true;
FCKConfig.FlashBrowser = true;
FCKConfig.LinkUpload = true;
FCKConfig.ImageUpload = true;
FCKConfig.FlashUpload = true;

The spell checker however still involves installing the third party aspell library. The detailed instructions to get this working can be found in the 8.0.1 release notes document. Do take a look at it if you are interested in getting the spell checker working. The document also has information about the file upload which I have discussed in this post.

I will be speaking at MAX this year happening San Franciso. My topic is as exiciting as it sounds. It’s ColdFusion Powered AIR.

See you all at MAX!

Jayesh, who works for the ColdFusion QA Team has started to blog about ColdFusion, AIR, Flex and more.

Sandeep, from the ColdFusion Engineering team has also started to blog.

Do check their blogs out.

I am back from WebDU and already seem to miss my time spent at Sydney and the conference at Darling Harbor. First up, here’s the presentation from my talk.

WebDU was one fun conference with loads of stuff happening each day. It was definitely a rock concert for geeks. Cartoon pics for all the speakers, the innovative trading card game, the videos from Nectarine, all made it look like WebDU was not just another conference but something more. This was my cartoon pic. Though it looks more like MJ of the 80s, I still like the cartoon

There was a big presence of ColdFusion users among the audience which was good to see. Also got to interact with Mark Mandel for the first time and lot of other ColdFusion guys. The speaker party at Geoff’s place was a perfect end to the conference. Got to speak to a lot more whom I could not meet at the conference. Also met Minty and James from the Nectarine team.

Sydney was one cool place and I can even go to the extent of rating it as the best City I have been to so far. I made sure that I run each day around the city in the morning to enjoy every bit of Sydney. On the last day of my stay in Sydney, I was running near the Opera House. I saw someone running towards me with an intent to meet me. I went to him and soon realized that he was one of the audience of my talk at the conference. He said he enjoyed my talk the best and wished me good luck. I could not have asked for more, Sydney!

Just finished my Ajax Talk at the WebDU conference in Sydney. I enjoyed presenting to a lovely audience at the beautiful Darling Harbor.

Thank you all for the nice feedback on the talk. I really enjoyed presenting to you. I wanted to upload my presentation right away, but there is some issue with the font I have used in my presentation. Not able to convert into a proper PDF file. I will fix that and update it soon.

Thanks again!

Am off to Sydney for the WebDU conference. All excited to be there at WebDU and speak about ColdFusion.

I will be starting tomorrow. Will stop over at Singapore for a couple of days and then head for Sydney for the conference. See you there!

I will be speaking at the WebDU conference in sydney happening between the 12th and 13th of June.

http://www.webdu.com.au/go/speaker-profile/rakshith-n-bangalore-india

I am excited to speak and meet a lot new faces out there. See you there at Sydney!