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ColdFusion Resources
 Some of our favorite ColdFusion web resources.
Official Resources
Discussions
CF Blogs
- Ray Camden: Thoughts from one of the premier ColdFusion speakers and authors.
- Ben Forta: The personal BLOG of Macromedia's ColdFusion evangelist.
- Sean Corfield: Information and opinion from the Director of Architecture in IT at Macromedia.
- Christian Cantrell: News and opinion from Macromedia's Server Community Manager.
- Spike-fu: CFMX information from a self-confessed "CF Junkie".
- Jeremy Allaire: Jeremy, his brother and some friends created ColdFusion. Although no longer with Macromedia Jeremy is still a man to watch.
- Waldo Smeets: Insight from a Macromedia Sales Engineer.
- Charlie Arehart: Issues and ideas from this popular author and trainer.
Galleries (Custom Tags, UDFs, Components and Snippets)
- CFTagStore.com: A well-organized and presented collection of commercial custom-tags from a large development community.
- ColdFusion Developer's Exchange: The largest collection of ColdFusion components available.
- CFLib.org: An incredibly useful, ever-growing collection of User Defined Functions (for use in CF version 5+) well-organized into focused libraries.
- CFCZone.org: CFC's (for use in CFMX) represent the object-oriented evolution of Custom Tags and this site will be there to provide free, community-focused CFC resources.
- cfXtras: A custom tag library offering services to developers who wish to sell their extensions.
- cfcustomtags.com: A growing and well presented collection of Custom Tags.
- ColdCuts: A large, user-submittable library of ColdCusion snippets.
- CFDev.com: Developers of the very popular "Active" line of components: ActiveEdit, ActiveMail, etc.
General Sites
- MaxFusion: Articles, FAQs, and custom tags from a CF Geek in the UK.
- cf.Factory: Useful instructions and sample code for directly manipulating many of the low-level control interfaces of CFMX.
- devmx: A site covering all aspects of Macromedia's MX line of tools.
- SysteManage: Lots of good information from some CF experts.
- FlashCFM.com: A site focusing on the marriage of ColdFusion and Flash.
- <cfHub.com>: A truly excellent resource for beginner and expert alike. The forums here are generally more code-heavy than many others with more complete examples than most.
- cfm!Central: Chat, forums, tags, articles, and news.
- House of Fusion: A good resource featuring tutorials, articles, and other developer resources.
- ColdFusion Tips Plus: A regular email newsletter with something for every level of developer. There are lots of back issues to explore as well.
- Defusion.com: A very active user community and a good overview of many other CF Resources.
- Fusion Authority: A great community resource featuring weekly newsletters and other current information.
Beginner Help/Tutorials
- CFFAQ.com: ColdFusion questions, answered.
- How2CF.com: Home of several very detailed papers including "XML in ColdFusion MX" and "Exception Handling in ColdFusion MX".
- Techspedition: Publishers of concise, clear books on complex topics.
- EasyCFM.com: A large number of skill-specific ColdFusion tutorials by some of the biggest people in the field.
- Daryl's ColdFusion Primer: A good introduction to ColdFusion.
- Tutorials by Hal Helms: A hugely useful resource, especially if you're interested in learning more about the FuseBox methodology.
Development Architectures / Code Style Standards
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