Web Designer Mag has featured a number of ColdFusion tutorials by myself, and Issue 144 and 145 have the fourth and fifth tutorials in the series.

Issue 144 covered how to build an administrative interface using the CF8 Ajax Datagrid, whilst issue 145 takes the Ajax integration that bit further by showing how we can us FCKEditor (which is included in CF8), and how we can implement our own "Autosave" feature, ultimately leading to a basic Web mail interface.

The 5 tutorials so far have really focused on targeting those new to ColdFusion, or those who are just a tad intrigued by what the fuss is all about. Hopefully I'll be writing some new tutorials for Web Designer that will take our focus that bit deeper.

Issue 146 of Web Designer Mag features a review of this years Scotch on the Rocks.

Go pick up a copy!

The third in my series of ColdFusion tutorials for Web Designer magazine is now available at a newsagent/bookstore near you.

This tutorial is on PDF Generation and Form Manipulation, Image Manipulation and Presentations on Demand.

May's edition will revisit the CF8 Ajax grid, and building a CRUD interface, whilst June will tackle the CF8 PDF features in more depth, and how you can build an online order system.

The March edition of Web Designer, features the second in a series of ColdFusion tutorials by myself; The Basics of ColdFusion Coding.

Not very interesting for the seasoned ColdFusion developer, but then these tutorials aren't for you (though be sure to pick up the mag anyway, and give it support. If we want ColdFusion to have more exposure in the non-CF press, then we as a community need to increase their sales. No, I wasn't paid to say that heh).

These tutorials will hopefully tap into some of the other development communities, and at the very least, offer some exposure of ColdFusion to them. If a few decide to give ColdFusion a go - not to necessarily dump their existing skills in favour, but more to give them another tool in their belt - then it's a job well done.

My third tutorial, due April, exposes some of the new features of ColdFusion 8 including; PDF Interaction, Image Manupulation and Presentations on Demand.

I'm up in sunny Aberdeen this Friday (which is also the last day of the early bird pricing for Scotch on the Rocks), giving a presentation on ColdFusion 8.

Fuzzy Orange will also be sponsoring the event so that everyone gets some food and a few beers.

Additionally, I will also be giving away a ticket to Scotch on the Rocks.

The presentation will be aimed at both experienced and novice ColdFusion developers. Heck, if you're a PHP/.NET/Java/Ruby/etc developer and want to know what the fuss is all about, come along.

See you on Friday.

This month saw the first in a series of articles by myself, published by Web Designer Mag on ColdFusion for Novices.

Issue 141 sees me showing easily and quickly, just how we can pull data from a database and display it in an Ajax grid. I think it takes around 28 lines of code. Real basic code.

Next month (issue 142) will see a more in depth look at programming using CFML - this should be on the way to the printers - and issue (143), well, I can't tell you what's going to be in that just yet.

In addition to the tutorial, I'm quoted on what we here at Fuzzy Orange think is "Hot for 2008". Scotch on the Rocks is top of our list, and it's very encouraging to see Web Designer agree with us, as it's number 51 in their list.

I'm delighted to announce that Fuzzy Orange are now an official reseller of ColdFusion, in addition to other Adobe products.

This latest move allows Fuzzy Orange to deliver every aspect of application development, providing your solution at every level; the ColdFusion product, Consultancy, Training and Support.

We shall be releasing additional information shortly on this service, in addition to how you can purchase ColdFusion itself.

Fuzzy Orange are now running two ColdFusion Administration courses:

• ColdFusion Installation and Configuration
• ColdFusion Advanced Administration and Configuration

Full details of these courses can be found on our training page.

These courses will teach budding ColdFusion Administrators and developers how to install, configure, administer and troubleshoot their ColdFusion servers.

I'll be in Edinburgh on October 9th for the Adobe Creative License Tour

This is a great chance to find out more about Adobe's Web and rich internet application development tools, specifically Flash CS3, Flex, AIR and ColdFusion 8

With a highly successful User Group meeting in Aberdeen out of the way, Edinburgh is next.

This will be a lunch time get together in the Cambridge Bar, starting at 12.30. For anyone who can stick around longer than the hour, feel free to do so.

Also, we've moved the Glasgow meet up to the 24th September to accomodate Peter Bell, who will be back in Scotland at that time.