COLDFUSION (CF) ::::

Note that this section is still under review - I promise this will make a lot more sense very shortly !

I've been developing in coldfusion for around 2 years. Having built solutions in PHP/ASP and JSP - I find ColdFusion to be the quickest, most elegant language. From a developers point of view - it has one of the best IDE's (ColdFusion Studio), a great developer community and a language which is relatively simple but pretty powerful.

I do enjoy the nature of OO style languages which JSP offers - but I prefer ColdFusion in terms of elegance, development speed and the development environment.

Methodologies :::

Web applications can be hard. Hard to envision, specify, design, build , integrate and maintain. There is no shortage of methodologies out there, but many are either too heavy, too light - or just lack significant depth and refinement to be really useful.
In the same way the some people feel about programming languages (that maybe there should be specific languages for specific business problems ) - there are emerging methodologies which have been developed around specifying/designing/building/etc web applications.
There are a number of methodologies which have been published which directly relate to Coldfusion. CF Objects, Blackbox but the methodology which has the most momentum around is fusebox. It's my methodology of choice - and has increased development speed as well producing reusable/modular solutions - gotta love those fusebox custom tags !

stuff to CF_DIG :::

Fusebox.org ::

a methodolgy which leverages code reuse, maintainability solid design and documentation standards and has some great tags which make development a breeze. Check out the presentations - they're a good place to start.

Hal Helm's site ::

a smart guy who has a vast experience in web applications and one of the main drivers behind the direction and ideas that make up fusebox. Plenty of good articles (and fusebox primers) about ColdFusion development focusing on the fusebox methodology.

Secret Agents ::

These guys wrote a book on fusebox - and they have some nifty tools as well.

Fusebox 2.0 - Large Scale Fusebox Applications

Steve Nelson (from Secret Agents) write up about fusebox. A good simple read.

GrokFusebox ::

another fusebox site with some interesting/cool/handy stuff on it.

Other Methodologies :::

ColdFusion Users Group ::

A fantastic place to share ideas, see what else people are doing with ColdFusion and get amongst some of the most talented ColdFusion developers around.

And now for something special ::

Think you've seen it all ? Check this out - CF_SPIFFY !

what I'm into at the moment :::

Keep an eye on this site. From the horses mouth:

I'm working on one called Fusebox-X, based on Extended Fusebox. It's basically a 'Fusebox Runtime', that provides all the services, such as security, caching, indexing, etc to the circuits in the application. - Maddison, David - wildfusion.com

Older stuff:

Uh oh...get the fire extinguishes ready. Yes folks - it's time to blow up your ColdFusion server !:

Have a page called AllHostsOnThisListBewareOfPhoeunPha.cfm and in that page write <CF_AllHostsOnThisListBewareOfPhoeunPha> - Aidan Whitehall

or this

<CFloop index="i" from=1 to=10000000000000000000> <cfquery name="query#i#" datasource="myDSN"> select * from user.ReallyBigTable </cfquery> </cfloop> - Philip Arnold