What is the ColdFusion Resource Portal?

The ColdFusion Resource portal is a collection of links and feeds relevant to ColdFusion developers. It is based heavily (i.e. ripped completely) on Flex.org. Thanks to Ted Patrick and Adobe for the idea. If you have a suggestion for a link to add, please send it my way. This site was created by Raymond Camden.

Learning ColdFusion

There are a variety of ways to learn ColdFusion. Start off by downloading the product using one of the links to the left. You can simply pick up one of the many books available, or use the provided documentation (again, to the left). Adobe, and it's partners, offer many courses, including both self-paced and instructor led courses.

Online Communities

There are quite a few ColdFusion sites and blogs out there. See the pod to the right. What follows is a list of the most active ColdFusion communities:

• cf-talk - Listserv
• cf-jobs - Listserv (for CF jobs)
• cfcdev - Listserv (for CFC development)
• ColdFusion Support Forums - Online forum

Books

Security

For the latest in security alerts, visit the Adobe ColdFusion Security Advisories page. You may also sign up an email notification service.

Here is a list of all known ColdFusion blogs. Please email me if your blog is not listed.

1 Pixel Out - ColdFusion, Mach-II and other web things
the personal blog of phill.nacelli - ColdFusion, Model-Glue and more..
A Long Cold Road - About learning Coldfusion from scratch, using Ben Fortas CFWACK book.
Aarrgghh!! - The website of Terrence Ryan
Aaron Lynch - ColdFusion and other stuff
Acid - Burning discussion of Coldfusion web application design, development and web standards compliance with a little social commentary tossed in for good measure.
Andy Jarrett - Andy Jarrett, ColdFusion, MySQL, and a little Linux, and a lot of Googling all thrown in together
Anticlue - An IT Analyst's musings based on experience in a Health Care Institution.
Application Generation - A series of occasional musings on architecting, securing, optimizing and generating web based applications using ColdFusion. By Peter Bell.
ArcIMS
ArcIMS and ColdFusion Users - Hi guys -- I just migrated the blog but I forgot to grab the MXNA ping (the blog was added to MXNA ages ago) along with all the other backups. Can you resend ?Thanks.
AsFusion - A blog about Flash and ColdFusion technologies.
BarneyBlog - Musings on CF, OO, architecture, and whatever else tickles my fancy.
Ben Forta
Best Served Cold - What is this blog all about? A good start would be ColdFusion and perhaps Mach-II, design patterns and general object-oriented principles.
Big Damn Heros
BlairsBlog - Site about Macromedia & Flex
BlivitLog - ColdFusion info and catty code critiques from Bay Area ColdFusion User Group Manager and Web Smireress at Large, Jennifer Larkin. Other topics include life in San Francisco and entertainment reviews.
Blog about ColdFusion, Oracle and digital Asset Management - Blog about ColdFusion, Oracle and digital Asset Management
Blog in Black
Blog of Fusion - Multi-level blogging for the ColdFusion community, available from House of Fusion
BlogFusion Development Blog - BlogFusion is the premier ColdFusion blogging application. The BlogFusion Dev Blog focuses on the latest developments with the application.
Boyzoid's blog - The ramblimgs of a self-professed idiot.
Brian's Blog - Blog from Brian Kotek covering ColdFusion, Fusebox, and related topics.
Building Blocks - Tips for constructing next generation web apps using AJAX and ColdFusion.
<cf_rahul> - Blog of Rahul Narula, an Adobe ColdFusion Engineer
CFBoss - Tips, tricks and advice for getting ColdFusion MX up and running on the JBoss J2EE Application Server.
CFForm.com - Site dedicated to all things cfform. Flash Forms, Xml Forms, and html forms.
CFGURU - CFGURU Blog is the distillation of threads from the cfguru e-mail discussion list on advanced topics in programming, maintaining, scaling, and interoperation with Macromedia's server platforms.
CFM Applications
CFReport.org - CFReport and other musings by Dean
CFTips - Working on the Web 1.x - Tips for everyday web workers with a focus on Macromedia technologies.
CFUnit Open Source Project - CFUnit is a unit testing framework for CFML, modeled after the popular JUnit framework.
CF_Heavy - Everything to do with running a user group, ColdFusion and Macromedia goodness!
CFdevelopers - ColdFusion and stuff integrated with Flash and Java. Examples of application and code writing.
CMXtraneous - Blog for Community MX dealing with Dreamweaver and other related topics.
CPMMUG - Our goal is to provide a resource of knowledge to Web, graphic and multimedia designers of all skill levels.
Cameron Childress - The Sumo blog will generally be technical in nature, but will definitely have random non-technical things sprinkled throughout.
Charlie Arehart's Blog - The blog of web app developer and evangelist, Charlie Arehart.
Christian Cantrell - Christian Cantrell's Perspective on Macromedia server products and web development in general.
ClickCulture - Raleigh web design and development feature ColdFusion. Blog features ColdFusion, CSS, and other web development information.
ColdFusion Object Oriented Development
ColdFusion Podcast - The ColdFusion Podcast | ColdFusion news, features, tips and tricks
ColdFusion Product Notification - ColdFusion TechNotes published by Macromedia.
ColdFusion Users
Cole Barksdale's Blog
ColdFusion Purists - This blog is about those who dedicate themselves to the perfecting their craft, and have become purists in the standards they have established.
ColdFusion, Java, and Web Development
Coldfused - Thoughts, ideas on Coldfusion and related technologies.
Coldfusion Muse - Tips, insights and techniques for working with Coldfusion and other Macromedia products.
Coldfusion Open Source Blog - A web site specifically discussion open source coldfusion projects, both my own (CFFM, BlogCFM, CFAJAX Chat, ImageCFC), and others.
Compound Theory - This is Mark Mandel's Blog on ColdFusion, Java, software development, and other random musings.
Creative Restraint - Blogging the Nonsensical
Cryptical Envelopment - With over 10 years experience as an independent developer I have much to offer the CF community. The topics I will be discussing include: ColdFusion Java JavaScript Life As an Independent Contractor
Cutter's Blog
Daemonite - The TeamDaemon community blog on CFMX, FlashMX and FlashRemoting
Dale Fraser
Damon Cooper
Dan Mackey on ColdFusion Development - ColdFusion, Java and DHTML development Blog. Dan is owner and Administrator of CFTagStore.com and works for an Application Development Company called Digital Crew based in Cork, Ireland.
Dan Vega - The post it notes of a cf developer
DanielD Blog - ColdFusion Web Development Blog
Darryl Lyons - Musings about ColdFusion MX and other web technologies.
Dave Carabetta: My Thoughts - Personal thoughts of Dave Carabetta
Dave Ross - Blog on CFMX, Java, Flash, + More
DaveShuck.com - Web development blog centered on ColdFusion
Derrick Grigg's Blog - Information on Flash, Flex, Coldfusion and RIA development.
Digital Positions - Coldfusion development shop located in Atlanta GA.
Dominic Plouffe - From one of the co-founders of FuseTalk.
DopeJam - ColdFusion - The Tariq Ahmed Experience (aka Home Page) with a focus on ColdFusion.
Dopefly Tech Blog - techie geeky web dev stuff
DougHughes.net - Personal blog of Doug Hughes. The blog covers a variety of topics with a focus on problem solving in ColdFusion and related technologies.
EasyCFM.COM Tutorials - Learn ColdFusion Easily... With over 300 FREE ColdFusion Tutorials!
Eddie Awad's Blog - News, views, tips and tricks on Oracle, ColdFusion and life as I see it.
Everyday Ups of CF Dev - Sharing ColdFusion code, comments and tidbits to help you with your rapid application development.
Feed-Squirrel - General musings on CF, Flex and web technologies
Flex'ination - A Flex-related blog containing quick examples that answer common questions faced by a new Flex Developer - including source code.
Francis Scott - Personal blog, mostly related to ColdFusion.
FuseTalk Blog - The latest news on FuseTalk Forums.
Fusion Authority
GMan - all things adobe (web, vids, design, develop, learn)
Globalizing ColdFusionMX - Globalizing CFMX: A blog about all things concerning coldfusion and globalization (G11N for the 11 letters between the "G" and "N" in globalization).
Greg Cerveny - Independent Macromedia consultant offers tips, articles, and news.
Hinterland Exchange - A blog site maintained by Johan Lopes (Sweden) and Martin Gittins (UK) with frequent posts and articles covering Flash/Flex/ColdFusion/OOP/Design Patterns/FlashCom Server etc.
I Was A Registered Alien! - The ramblings of Andrew Muller. Mentor, trainer, developer & presenter, Andrew is based in Sydney, Australia.
IFBIN News - New examples, articles, and news from IFBIN Networks. IFBIN - great software by example.
In the Trenches - an ongoing collection of thoughts, ideas, and discussions on OOP and Design Patterns primarilly in relation to ColdFusion based on various projects I am involved with
Incito Devnet - Developer connection by Incito interactive agency from Lithuania.
Indias Macromedia User Group - India's Macromedia User Group is the main Group - aimed to help and form new regional groups easily, effortlessly and aid aspiring developers and designers in the use of Macromedia Technologies.
Indiver Nagpals' Flex and ColdFusion Blog - Having fun with Flex, ColdFusion and other good stuff.
InfoAccelerator - Insight and information from a ColdFusion / Flex Consultant
Inner-Rhythm - A Perosnal blog of Kev McCabe about CF and other programming thoughts
Inside Out Outside In - ColdFusion hints and tips, general ramblings, and a smattering of civil disobedience.
Instant Badger - Al Davidson's blog - CFMX, Web 2.0 and development in general
Jared Rypka-Hauer's Blog
Jason Clarks Blog - Jason Clark A technical perspective
Jeff Coughlin - ColdFusion for the Rest of Us
Jeff Houser's Blog - This site is Jeff Houser's personal blog. Jeff Houser has been a web developer for over 9 years, runs a web consulting company out of Connecticut, writes a column in the ColdFusion Developer's Journal, and has authored 3 ColdFusion books.
John Beynon - CF stuff from the UK
John Ramon's CF Blog
KDESIS - A blog to log the development of a student information system using Macromedia Flex and Coldfusion
Kinky Solutions
Know My Size - ColdFusion, SQL and Java tips on a semi daily basis.
Leave That Thing Alone - Mainly blogging about ColdFusion and some Flash. Will be adding more GIS & mapping examples.
Looking for help with CFCHART? - The intention is to be a FAQ/knowledgebase for users. Since I noticed that a lot of similar questions are being repeated on the forums, this should solve a lot of problems. Happy CFcharting!
Lucas Sherwood - daily ramblings and trash for the bit bucket
Lucidus
Luis Majano's Coldfusion/Java Blog - This site is dedicated to help the coldfusion/java community. It includes coding examples, tools, source code, etc. All the necessary tools to help out the developer community. Articles on technology, java, coldfusion, news, movies, music, etc.
Luna-Tech - Occasional posts and other raving from a ColdFusion developer in the DC Metro area.
Mark Drew on CF - Musings about web development, coldfusion and cfeclipse.
Mark Holton's Blog - A web application developer's thoughts on software, software technologies, links to creative software ideas, and other areas of interest including entrepreneurial software endeavors
Mark Mazelin's Blog at MKVille - Thoughts on ColdFusion, Flex, Web Standards and other topics.
Matt Fusfields Blog - Technology and other interesting stuff from around the Internet
Matt Liotta
Matt Williams' Blog - ColdFusion, other Adobe technologies
Matt Woodward's Blog - Matt Woodward's Blog about ColdFusion, Flex, and web development in general!
Media Division Developers' Blog - When we're not busy working on different client- or server-side projects, we're trying to give back the community some of the things we have learned.
Michael T. Haynie Personal Weblog - Views of technology including ColdFusion, AJAX, consulting, information architecture and podcasting.
Michael van Leest - Personal blog of Michael van Leest. The main focus of this blog is Macromedia products en related topics. A lot about Dreamweaver, Flash, Coldfusion, Flex and a lot more!
Mike Nimer - Mike Nimer, ColdFusion engineer, personal blog.
Mike Rankins MX Blog - Musings on ColdFusion, Flash and other Macromedia stuff
Mximize - Pieces of code that are handy to use in real live.
Nick Watson Blog - Blog issues regarding ColdFusion and Flex
Nictunney.com - Coldfusion, Standards and Framework
Notes from the Flash, Flex and ColdFusion trenches - Jeff Tapper's tips, thoughts and random babbling about Flex Flash and ColdFusion
Oinam Software - The technical bossom for the best articles in Authorware, Breeze, Captivate, Central, ColdFusion, Contribute, Director, Dreamweaver and the "F" Technologies; Flash, FlashPaper, Flash Remoting, Flash Communication Server, Flash Lite and Flex.
Oguz Demirkapi's Notebook - Oguz Demirkapi who is ColdFusion User Group manager in Turkey has a new blog in English beside his Turkish blog (demirkapi.net/blogcfc/).
Pat's Blog - News from the Lists and all things cold fusion and OO
Patrick's Blog - Thoughts on software development
Philosophy_Me - The blog of Rick Smith.
Ponderings - Ponderings is the programming weblog of Joshua Scott. Blog subjects include design patterns, object oriented programming, ColdFusion, Ajax, ModelGlue, Reactor, ColdSpring, and any other random thought that might come to mind.
Prismix Blog - Internet business solutions using Macromedia Flex and ColdFusion MX.
ROK ESRI Devlelopers Blog - A blog all the cool stuff that we are working on here at ROK and share our gotchas when working with ESRI, Macromedia and other development platforms like ArcGIS Server - ArcIMS - ArcSDE - Coldfusion - .Net - J2ee
Raymond Camden - A blog for ColdFusion, Spry, Flex, and other fun things.
Remote Synthesis - Mostly discussion of technical issues and resources related to ColdFusion and SQL development.
Rey Bango - Rey Bango's Blog about ColdFusion, Web Development and Life
Richinternet Blog - Blog of the Rich Internet Service Unit Programmers of MM-Partner Herrlich & Ramuschkat
Rick Osborne's ColdFusion blog - Rick is a professional web programmer, developer, and geek.
Rick Root - Rick Root is the author of BlogCFM, a full featured, open source blog app for Coldfusion MX / BlueDragon.
Rob Brooks-Bilson's Blog - The personal blog of Rob Brooks-Bilson
Rob Gonda's ColdFusion and AJAX blog - ColdFusion and AJAX Blog
Rob Rohan - Random Technology - Random technology and commentary from the mind of Rob Rohan.
Robert Blackburn - DevBlog - RBDev.net is owned and maintained by Robert Blackburn, a web developer specializing in Java, PHP, and ColdFusion.
Sarge's Blog - Sarge's personal blog
Scrollin' On Dubs - 100% distilled "ah-ha" moments from an application developer/ legal technology consultant - it's the only way to scroll...
Sean Corfield - An Architect's View. Thoughts from the Director of Architecture in IT at Macromedia on: ColdFusion MX, Rich Internet Applications, software design... and neat CFMX hacks!
Shuttle.Space - Personal blog about CF, Mach-II and related technologies.
Software Advantage - My notes on coding ColdFusion functionality.
Stake Five - Ashwinâ??s musings on music, technology and just about anything elseâ?¦
Steve Bryant - A Web Programmer's Exploration
Steve Nelson
Strikefish Blog - A site dedicated to communicating solutions to the IT community. Macr, Adobe, Oracle, Microsoft, SQL Server, CF, Flex, Flash, Java, .NET, and more.
Succor.co.uk - Coldfusion, Frameworks and other web technology that helps the average CF web developer.
TT Tech Blog - Blog about tech related items including RIA's, databases, web services etc....
TalkingTree
The Blog of Simon Horwith - Diary of a (ColdFusion) Madman.
The Coldfusion Cookbook - A set of questions and solutions related to ColdFusion development.
The Roman Empire - A blog of links, information about my experiences starting my own business, and all things coldfusion.
The Simfluence - Ramblings of a Technology Zealot
Tim Blair on ColdFusion and web-tech - Tim Blair's not-so regular updates in the world of ColdFusion, Flex and general web-tech.
Tim Buntel
Tom Jordahl's Musings - Random thoughts about ColdFusion, Web Services, Apache Axis, Tivo and other stuff
Tom-Muck.com - Support site for Dreamweaver books and extensions
Tracy Logan - ColdFusion and related tools, languages, concepts, and best (and worst!) practices.
TrajiklyHip: ColdFusion - The personal site of Aaron West. Includes Aaron's blog and tons of information on ColdFusion, Flash, and other Macromedia technologies.
Triangle Area ColdFusion User Group Blog - just a bit of technical ramblings from the tacfug staff
Truths and Lies - Coldfusion tips, flash tips, informaiton about developing with ColdSpring and the soon to be released ColdSpring AOP.
Waldo Smeets - I am Sales Engineer at Macromedia Benelux. At this blog I will post newsitems regarding our vision, products and the presentations that I do around Europe.
Waterswing Studio - Blog dealing with various web development issues. Main focus on ColdFusion related isuues.
Wayne Graham's Blog - Academic library related ColdFusion development
Webapper - This blog is a repository of information and links covering all aspects of Designing and Building Web Applications. With a focus on Fusebox.
Webmilhouse - My blog on ColdFusion, Linux, Oracle, Java and other web programming info
Yacoblog - IT news and commentary, ColdFusion tips and news
bpurcell.org
cf.Objective - The Evolution of a CF-Based OO Developer Online
cfoo
cfsilence - cfsilence covers coldfusion, actionscript, flash forms and some other geek-friendly topics like gaming and gadgets
clearsoftware.net - As I've grown as a developer, I've fallen into the same pits and traps as many others, and I'd like to use this site to communicate both what I've learned and as a way to continue my education.
delraysteve - Steve Ray's Blog
dervish moose blog - Thoughts on ColdFusion from a dancing moose. Ah, I don't dance and I am not a moose, but I do have lots of thoughts, code and insights on ColdFusion.
devnulled
fekke.com - A web log that covers Macromedia ColdFusion, Open Standards, Web Services and XML.
illequipped - Coldfusion and CSS discussion. BlogCFC skin repository.
jehiah.com - CFML, HTML, CSS, Javascript and those other web things all mixed together
jmpj.net - This is the personal weblog of Jason Sheedy
kdub
kdub's blog - Kurt Wiersma covers his favorite subjects including ColdFusion. Java, and OS X.
newsight - A personal blog about ColdFusion, Flex, Rich Internet Applications and other Technologies.
ohsogooey.com
psst - ColdFusion | Flash | Flex | Crazed Ramblings - The tales of a one man ColdFusion/Flash/ Flex developer not afraid to share his shortcomings as well as his successes .
redev - The weblog of the jobsgopublic.com development team. Ideas, opinions, tips and tricks for ColdFusion MX, Flash MX and the web.
revolution weblog - the personal blog of tony weeg, certified macromedia coldfusion mx developer
rewindlife (CF) - RewindLife's ColdFusion feed.
shlomygantz.com - Shlomy Gantz's Blog
Sitepoint CF Blog
spikefu
wiredwebb - Blog on Macromedia, Coldfusion, and project managment.

Here is a list of all known ColdFusion podcasts. Please email me if your podcast is not listed.

The ColdFusion Podcast
ColdFusion Weekly
Helms and Peters - Out Loud

Here is a list of all known ColdFusion sites. Please email me if your site is not listed.

CFDeveloper
CFEclipse
CFLib
CFCZone
CFFaq
cfFrameworks
CFTagStore.com
ColdFusion Cookbook
ColdFusion Open Source List
EasyCFM
Fusion Authority
House of Fusion

Here is a list of all known ColdFusion User Groups. Please email me if your site is not listed. Thanks to Adobe for this list!

American User Groups

Huntsville, AL CFUG - Alabama
Phoenix, AZ CFUG - Arizona
Bay Area CFUG - California
Sacramento, CA CFUG - California
San Diego, CA CFUG - California
Denver CFUG - Colorado
SW CT CFUG - Connecticut
Hartford CFUG - Connecticut
Wilmington CFUG - Delaware
Jacksonville CFUG - Florida
South Florida CFUG - Florida
West Georgia CFUG - Georgia
Atlanta, GA CFUG - Georgia
Maui CFUG - Hawaii
Boise ColdFusion Developers Group - Idaho
Chicago CFUG - Illinois
Indianapolis, IN CFUG - Indiana
Lafayette, LA MMUG - Louisiana
California, MD CFUG - Maryland
Maryland CFUG - Maryland
Boston CFUG - Massachusetts
Online CFUG - Massachusetts
Detroit CFUG - Michigan
Mid Michigan CFUG - Michigan
Souteastern MN CFUG - Minnesota
Twin Cities CFUG - Minnesota
Kansas City, MO CFUG - Missouri
Omaha, NE CFUG - Nebraska
Central New Jersey CFUG - New Jersey
UNH CFUG - New Hampshire
Rochester, NY CFUG - New York
Albany, NY CFUG - New York
New York ColdFusion User Group - New York
Syracuse, NY CFUG - New York
Raleigh, NC CFUG - North Carolina
Cleveland CFUG - Ohio
Portland, OR CFUG - Oregon
Central Penn CFUG - Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA CFUG - Pennsylvania
State College, PA CFUG - Pennsylvania
Nashville, TN CFUG - Tennessee
Memphis, TN CFUG - Tennessee
Austin, TX CFUG - Texas
Dallas, TX CFUG - Texas
Houston Area CFUG - Texas
Salt Lake City, UT CFUG - Utah
Charlottesville CFUG - Virginia
Seattle CFUG - Washington
WAMMO - Washington, DC

International User Groups

New South Wales CFUG - Australia
ACT CFUG - Australia
Queensland CFUG - Australia
Victoria CFUG - Australia
Western Australia CFUG - Australia
Sao Jose dos Campos CFUG - Brazil
Kingston, ON CFUG - Canada
Toronto, ON CFUG - Canada
Central Europe CFUG - Germany
Dublin, Ireland MMUG - Ireland
Italy CFUG - Italy
Auckland CFUG - New Zealand
Norwegian Adobe User Group - Norway
Scottish CFUG - Scotland
Gothenburg, Sweden CFUG - Sweden
Swiss CFUG - Switzerland
Thames Valley CFUG - United Kingdom
UK CFUG - United Kingdom