In this session, veteran CFer Charlie Arehart will share dozens of tips and tricks (and a couple of traps) for working with Adobe's new ColdFusion Builder IDE. Whether you're entirely new to it, or have used it since its release, there will be items of interest for you. The topics will range from gems in editing code, to configuring the IDE; from troubleshooting problems. to connecting the IDE to CF servers, and editing code on remote servers. Of course, those with prior experience with CFEclipse will recognize some of the tips, but many if not most will be unique to CFBuilder, and even experienced CFEclipse users have said they learned things in this talk.

The general session from the CFinNC conference in Raleigh, NC. It's not a keynote.

A look back at the progress of ColdFusion over the past year, some of the high-level features of ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder and a sneak peak at ColdFusion in the Cloud.

This presentation announces the launch of the publis beta programs for ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder.

Some of the exciting new features and enhancements to ColdFusion:

CFML Language Evolution
Hibernate-based ORM
Microsoft SharePoint & Office Interoperability
Exposed Service Layer (CFaaS)
Dynamic UI Controls
Advanced Caching
Scripting Language Support
Apache Solr/Lucene Integration
Server Management Tool

The long anticipated ColdFusion IDE, ColdFusion Builder:

Eclipse-based ColdFusion IDE
Code Complete and Code Insight
Debug Applications
Code Refactoring
Remote Projects and FTP Sync
Server Management
Extensible w/ CFML

Both products are now available for download:

ColdFusion 9
ColdFusion Builder