This got lost a little in the shuffle around MAX. If you're interested in teaching RIA development, or Flex development in general have we got a site for you:

Rich Internet Application teaching resources

We've brought together a wide range of resources for you here including small tutorials, course project ideas, best practice documents, and book recommendations. All it all, a one stop for designing RIA courses around the Flash Platform.

They just added a few new tutorials I did at Adobe TV.

Displaying Flash Video Files in ColdFusion 9:
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adc-presents/displaying-flash-video-files-in-coldfusion-9/

Extending ColdFusion Builder:
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adc-presents/extending-coldfusion-builder/

PDF Content Manipulation with ColdFusion 9:
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adc-presents/pdf-file-content-manipulation-with-coldfusion-9

I had a comment on my blog yesterday about ORM's restrictions on multiple datasources.  Yes, ORM in ColdFusion 9 is restricted to one datasource per application. However this does not mean you are restricted to one database, schema or tablespace.

A datasource is just an abstraction for database connection details. It takes a server, a port, user credentials, a default database and other information.  On the database side, just because a database is defaulted doesn't mean that you are limited to just that database.  In SQL you can append schema namespaces to the front of a table:

SELECT *
FROM NotMyDefaultApplication..users

This can also be accomplished in ORM components by specifying the schema attribute on the component. This will allow you to access a table outside the default database.

So if you have the need to access multiple databases/tablespaces/schema on one database server you absolutely can with the proper credentials and the schema attribute.

Okay, so ColdFusion 9 is out, and you want to get a copy. How do you go about it?

First, the developer and trial editions are free and available.

Second if you want to buy ColdFusion 9, your method will vary depending on where you are in the world..

You can just buy it from our online store.

For corporate customers:

In the US, east of the Mississippi, contact Dominick Conte dconte@adobe.com
In the US, west of the Mississippi, contact Tim Pontier tpontier@adobe.com
In the US and purchasing for a Governmental organization, contact Matt Troedson
In the US and purchasing for an Education organization, contact your Adobe Rep

In Europe, Africa or the Middle East the answer will vary from country to country, contact Claude Englebert cenglebe@adobe.com to get in touch with the appropriate partner.

Worldwide we have local resellers.

A commenter on my last post asked about the portion of the EULA that addressed testing and development servers.

When you read the EULA you'll see:

3.1.3 If Licensee purchases one or more Production Software licenses, then Adobe also grants Licensee the
right to install and use the Software as Development Software for internal development, testing and staging.

It's important to note that this means that you can install additional copies of your production server in Standard or Enterprise (whichever license you bought) to take one of these roles.  The Developer Edition of ColdFusion is still limited to 3 IPs but your shared development server with Standard or Enterprise will not be limited.

Happy developing, testing, and staging.

The EULA for ColdFusion 9 has several exciting changes. (Yes, excitement from a EULA!)

• Usage with cloud computing is now supported. Each license of ColdFusion will limit you to a number of instances.
  • Standard 1 instance
  • Enterprise 10 instances
• ColdFusion 9 boxes dedicated to testing or group development no longer require their own licenses. A license of ColdFusion 9 you buy for production will allow you to create the rest of your environment. This is in addition to the change in the EULA we made in ColdFusion 8 to cover passive backup servers. We made both of these changes because it was important to us that developers not be penalized for following best practices.

It's important to note that these changes are not retroactive to previous versions of ColdFusion, only to ColdFusion 9.

It makes me very happy to join with everyone else here at Adobe in announcing ColdFusion 9 is now available.

It's been about 2 years in the making. Having seen it from the other side, I am in awe of the hard work and dedication the development team puts in. They put in crazy hours, and put out a product that is unbelievable. Here's what they added:

• ORM
• Advanced Caching
• SharePoint Integration
• Office Integration
  • Word
  • PowerPoint
  • Excel
• Java Portal Integration
• Major reworking of Components
  • Performance Boost
  • Automatic Getters and Setters
  • Local Scope
• Cfscript Enhancement
• CFML Enhancements
• New Search Engine
• ColdFusion as a Service
• Supercharged Flash Remoting

Oh yeah, and while they did that, they also created ColdFusion Builder a 1.0 product. Which reminds me, ColdFusion Builder Public Beta 2 is now out too.

On top of our developers, the beta testers have been amazing. Perhaps that was why our developers worked so hard, but they need to be acknowledged. The beta testers were banging away on Centaur pretty much from day one 24 hours a day. Their input heavily shaped the final outcome. It could not be done without them.

ColdFusion 9 is impressive, and it's out. I'm excited. Our customers are excited. Our community is excited. Our developers are exhausted, but excited.

Now get out there and start using it, and don't be quiet about it.