Learning ColdFusion with BlueDragon
I’ve been tasked to learn ColdFusion this weekend. If you see any web pages on the internet where the name ends with CFM, those are ColdFusion web pages. I don’t have any software, and a server wasn’t provided for me to work with. I was a bit confused on how I was supposed to learn the stuff. We have a new guy comming in on Tuesday and I need to know ColdFusion by then so I can help him get up to speed.
I did some searching on the internet. I found a product called BlueDragon that can run web pages with ColdFusion tags in them (ColdFusion Markup Language - CFML). It can run on its own on port 8080 by default, and you can also map it to Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS). The best part of the deal is that this server is free.
I found a few websites with ColdFusion tutorials. I also found that Macromedia has a website that I could use as a reference for everything CFML. I always looked down at ColdFusion as if it were almost a joke. When HomeSite started supporting ColdFusion tags, I was busy learning Active Server Pages (ASP). Thank goodness for that, as ASP has caught on greatly compared to ColdFusion.
It seems that ColdFusion has finally caught up with me. The good news is that I already know so many programming, scripting, and markup languages. This is making it easier to catch onto CFML.