ColdFusion is the Sparta of Programming Languages

Now I know what the Spartan Warriors in the movie 300 felt like fighting a seemingly unwinnable battle. This feeling comes after responding to yet another forum question on LinkedIn this morning where 10 PHP and Ruby developers decided to pile on and declare ColdFusion dead. And they did so to such an innocent and harmless question that it begs to wonder: what the hell is wrong with people?

I wasn't going to write another post on this. When I last wrote a post on this topic, a few ColdFusion people sent in or posted comments about not paying this type of nonsense any mind. But it is getting harder and harder to ignore the mindless banality. This one being particularly hard, as one of the commenters to this LinkedIn question was a person that was present at my Developer Ignite speech, in which I came to the defense of ColdFusion and declared my ColdFusiontology crusade. (Don't worry, I sent my colleague an email calling him my new arch nemsis for his answer)

This one was also hard due to the question being asked. The question came from a dad asking if it is ok to encourage his son, as his son wants to start learning ColdFusion.

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A bonaza of ColdFusion News

There is a lot going on right now in the World of ColdFusion. First, July marks another birthday for our dear ColdFusion. Joseph JJ Allaire and his brother Jeremy released CF in July 1995, making it 14 years old this month. Not surprising, Adobe wished ColdFusion a happy birthday by officially releasing the public beta version of ColdFusion 9 (Centaur) and ColdFusion Builder recently. Since then, the CFers have been blogging machines. Below is a good sampling of the news floating around.

Adobe releases public beta of ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion Builder [ColdFusion Jedi]
Adobe ColdFusion CFML Reference
Adobe ColdFusion 9 Videos [Adobe]
Getting Started With The New ColdFusion Builder [Ben Forta]
Adobe wires ColdFusion into Microsoft Office and SharePoint

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Top Online ColdFusion Resources

ColdFusion has a wide variety of developers and resources available online. Recently, we asked a question on an Adobe ColdFusion Developer Discussion in Linked In about what everyone's favorite online resource was. So, in honor of that the its recent 13th birthday, and by the help of our Linked In discussion, the Nerds and Brice Cheddarn Studios bring you the Top Online ColdFusion Resources:

http://riaforge.org/ - RIAForge was the brainchild of Ben Forta. The principal developer for the project is Raymond Camden. It is an online community to support developers building open source projects for ColdFusion related platforms.

http://cflib.org/ - The Common Function Library Project (CFLib.org) is another Ray Camden production setup to create a set of user-defined function (UDF) libraries for ColdFusion 5.0 and higher. These libraries are open source and may be used and modified to your liking. Functions range from email format checking to encryption routines. These UDFs can greatly speed up development time as well as add new and powerful features to your web site.

http://www.houseoffusion.com/ - House of Fusion is a powerful (but in need of a redesign) resource supplying quality content to the ColdFusion community for as long as there's been a ColdFusion community. It is a great online utility for ColdFusion Nerds.

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Not sure where Adobe is going with this ColdFusion campaign

In the past, Adobe has received some criticism about not promoting or advertising its ColdFusion application server framework. So, in an effort to combat that critisicm, Adobe launched a new campaign. And that campaign...features the Governator. Yes, that's right, Adobe recruited the likes of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to help get the word out on power of ColdFusion. Or, as they put it, to help"programmers be significantly less girlie."

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coldfusion: a dying platform? i think not.

while surfin around the web one day, i stumbled across a question/answer thread Linked In.  generally, i watch the questions being asked so i can see if my services can be utilized somewhere.  one question caught my eye, since it dealt with a topic i am very familiar with.  coldfusion. 

for those of you who don't know, coldfusion is one of the first web related programming languages, not to mention a complete application platform for developing and delivering powerful and scaleable applications and websites.  its hard to tell im a coldfusion developer, huh?

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