Adobe Dev Summit, 2009 has been announced. The summit is on 4th August, 2009 at Lalit Ashok, Bangalore. You can sign up for a Gold pass, which is absolutely free. You can also sign up for a Platinum pass and get Flex Builder 3 Professional license for free.

What’s in it for you?

• See the new, improved and rocking LiveCycle Data Services 3 in action! If you are a Java developer, you wouldn’t want to miss this one!
• If you are a PHP/Java developer, get on the RIA expressway using the new Data Centric Development features on Adobe Flash Builder 4
• If you’re into enterprise-wide RIA development, things have just got hot! Check out the brand new version of ColdFusion with the sparkling new developer IDE – ColdFusion Builder.
• User Interfaces are a thing of the past now. Build User Experiences of tomorrow with Adobe Flash Catalyst. Quicker than ever!
• Sign up for a Platinum Pass and get the award winning Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional license worth USD 699 FREE!

Please find more details and register here http://www.endtoend.in/ete2009/adobe/devsummit/mailer.html.

Bangalore ColdFusion User Group has its first CFUG meeting on 9^th July 2009 at the Adobe premises in Bangalore. I will be speaking at this meet on “Insight into the latest version of ColdFusion: Centaur”. Bhakti Pingale, my colleague and friend will be speaking on “Introduction to Adobe ColdFusion Builder”. This is a great opportunity to know what is coming up in the next major release of ColdFusion and about the new ColdFusion IDE – Adobe ColdFusion Builder. Click here to register to this meet.

If you are a ColdFusion developer residing in Bangalore, do join the Bangalore ColdFusion User Group to share and learn about Adobe ColdFusion and related technologies. Saravanamuthu Jeyaraj is the manager of this group and do contact him if you have any questions.

I am pleased to say that I joined Vasavi Foundation as Joint Secretary. Vasavi Foundation is a social welfare organization (NGO) which works in the areas of health and education. They are a small NGO with a promise of making it big. They have been conducting Mega blood donation camps all over Bangalore from past 5 years. They recently have started a project called Project Vidhyadhaan with which they are planning to distribute text books free of cost to the needy. Looking at my activities in various other organizations, Lokie, the founder of this foundation, approached me and offered me to join as Joint Secretary and I have now accepted. I hope I can take up and give enough justice to this new responsibility.

Its all good news for the Bangaloreans. Bangalore has got the much-awaited international airport going! But it doesn’t end there. The next problem is to find a suitable name for the airport. As usual, different sets of people have different suggestions – Kempegowda the Founder of Bangalore, Mahatma Gandhi the Father of India, Rajkumar the matinee idol of Karnataka, Vishveshwaraiah the genious civil engineer who built the famous KRS dam, etc. The latest addition to this list is S V Setty. S V Setty is easily the less popular of them all. But after reading the aritcle at http://pease1.sr.unh.edu/pipermail/cci/2005-March/000981.html , it looks like this name too fits well in that list of probables. The article signifies that he is the first asian to build an aircraft!

“…In 1912, S.V. Setty not only rebuilt, after his own design, an aircraft built by A.V. Roe & Co. of Manchester, but also flew it…”.

What should be the name? Well, dont expect me to give a verdict! No, not me. Its a decision best left to the decision makers!

But seriously, whats in a name?

Have a idea to beat the traffic blues in Bangalore??? Ask the lady in the car….Work on the steering wheel when the traffic moves…Read the book when the traffic slows down…Now dont ask me how I beat the blues…