ColdFusion Resources

This list is intended for developers new to ColdFusion. Because CF isn't as popular as some of its alternatives, finding resources can sometimes be frustrating - especially when you're just learning CF. This is an attempt to make things a little easier by collecting some good ColdFusion resources in one place.

Note: you might find it difficult navigating macromedia.com without Flash installed. Additionally, in order to access their downloads, you will have to create a "Macromedia ID." This a major pain, so I've created one you can try, by using: "emailuser@domain.com" with password "password"

Macromedia Coldfusion FAQs
ColdFusion MX General Information FAQ
ColdFusion MX Server for J2EE Application Servers FAQ
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Macromedia CFMX Downloads
These are free downloads, but are restricted developer versions. That means they'll only serve pages for localhost and one additional IP address.
Server
MX for J2EE
Updater Download
ColdFusion Documentation
ColdFusion MX 6.1
ColdFusion 5
Other Macromedia Resources
Macromedia's Support Forums
Macromedia's Tutorial and Article Index
Macromedia's Technote Index
ColdFusion Developers Exhange
Place to find custom tags, functions, and other stuff. Some free, some not.
ColdFusion Development Center
Lots of articles/tutorials
Other Sites
Most of these sites have links to lots of other CF resources, too.
ColdFusion Developer's Journal
Ben Forta's ColdFusion Pages
Articles, tutorials, links
cfbookmark.com
Excellent categorized link directory
EasyCFM.com
Lots of tutorials
The Depressed Press of Boston
Some links and two "must read" articles
CFM-Resources.com
Tips, many tutorials, hosting
the Common Function Library Project - cflib.org
Great collection of open-source user-defined functions
CFM Central
Lots of tips and free custom tags

Books
Amazon's ColdFusion books directory
Ben Forta's books
Raymond Camden's books

Frameworks
Mach-II
Fusebox

Mailing Lists

CFCDev

House of Fusion: CF-Talk (high volume, registration required to subscribe & search)
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House of Fusion: CF-Newbie (registration required to subscribe & search)
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regarding ColdFusion....what is your opinion of the Adobe's take over of Macromedia this week?

What do you think will happen to ColdFusion?

Will Adobe leave it as it is?

Milk it while it is profitable since it is already proven technology and then dispose of it?

Throw More Money at it and try to make it better?

Just wondering.

Thanks