How has ColdFusion changed since version 4
June 5, 2010 8:45 AM   Subscribe

Looking for resources to catch up on what's changed in ColdFusion between version 4 and now.

I had a job working developing with ColdFusion in 2000-2001, using version 4 and it was owned by Allaire at the time. I'm currently in the midst of interviewing for a new position that will involve ColdFusion development. I'd like to find some websites that could help me get up to speed with the changes in ColdFusion as I'm sure there have been a lot over the last 10 years. I just set up a vm running cf9 server developer edition, so I'm open to more-hands on stuff, but just straight reading material is fine too.
posted by disaster77 to Computers & Internet (1 answer total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
The Coldfusion books by Ben Forta have all been great. That's how I got my start back around 4.5 when there was only one book (now 3 main ones).

One of the biggest changes was 5 to 6 with their move to Java. And then again once Macromedia was acquired by Adobe which added built in support for image manipulation and PDF generation. I'm extremely impressed with each release and the amount of new functionality that becomes available at your fingertips. It has come a LONG way since 4 and is actually respectable at this point :P

I recommend reading through the different versions listed on Wikipedia.

I caught back up with the 3 books they released for CF8.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=coldfusion+8+construction+kit&x=0&y=0

The first of the CF9 books is out with another next month and the third in August.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=coldfusion+9+construction+kit&x=0&y=0

Find out what frameworks the company you interview with uses. There's Fusebox, Mach II, and ColdBox (latter is the most impressive, especially when it comes to documentaiton). Look into Coldspring for object instantiation and dependenies, and Object Oriented development in general. Also research ORMs such as Transfer as well as the one that is built into CF9. While I don't care for ORMs because I like to control my database interaction, sooner or later you'll run into it.

Oh and last, but not least, there are open source servers for CFML with Railo and Open BlueDragon. I'm most familiar with Railo and love its speed.

Cheers.
posted by iamgoat at 1:34 PM on June 5, 2010


« Older And the ANT Came Back/The Very Next Day/And the...   |   Does this place even exist? Newer »
This thread is closed to new comments.


Tags

Share