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I don’t see how any­one in the CF com­mu­nity could have missed the news, but just in case, you can now down­load beta ver­sions of Cold­Fu­sion 9 and the new Eclipse-based IDE, Cold­Fu­sion Builder, from Adobe Labs.

The very clever Kai Koenig and I col­lab­o­rated on an arti­cle for Site­Point on What’s New in Cold­Fu­sion 9? – I did the ORM and AJAX bits. If you are one of the first 200 peo­ple to fin­ish the brief quiz, you’ll get a Cold­Fu­sion evangelist’s kit. I’m not sure what’s in it but it sounds good, right?

Due to the brief overview nature of the arti­cle, the ORM stuff is very, very sketchy – it’s meant to be just a brief expla­na­tion of what it is and basi­cally what’s involved, not an actual tuto­r­ial. Mark Man­del, the guru of all things ORM, has writ­ten an excel­lent intro­duc­tory tuto­r­ial for Adobe Labs, Intro­duc­ing ORM in Adobe Cold­Fu­sion 9 beta that I highly rec­om­mend you check out if you’re inter­ested in the topic.

Other than that, the blo­gos­phere is buzzing with news about the release – excit­ing stuff!