ColdFusion Programming

ColdFusion is a web application development platform created by Macromedia in 1995, later acquired by Adobe in 2005. It uses CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language), a tag-based language similar to HTML, to build dynamic web applications. ColdFusion is known for its rapid application development capabilities, ease of integration with databases, and built-in features for handling tasks like session management, form processing, and email sending.

My Dev Setup

I'm keeping things retro. I do my development on a Windows XP VM with Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 and ColdFusion MX 7 on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise with IIS 6. It's ancient, but I wanted to keep things authentic. :)

This is similar to how I worked back in the day. One thing I noticed is that Dreamweaver + ColdFusion is a great combo. Dreamweaver has built-in support for ColdFusion, including code hinting, syntax highlighting, and a visual design view. It makes building ColdFusion applications much easier.