RECOMMENDED WEB SITES

Allaire's ColdFusion Support Conference is teaming with company staff, volunteers ("Team Allaire" contributors) and product gurus with nothing better to do than help their fellow ColdFusion programmers. Most questions are answered by merely searching the discussion archives. Post remaining questions and receive prompt answers, routinely within a couple hours.

Be warned that a reference this helpful will be very popular. For best performance, avoid peak business hours.

This may be the penultimate schedule of ColdFusion-related conferences happening anywhere and everywhere. If you're interested in attending local or not-so-local gatherings of like-minded developers, bookmark this site and visit often.

Find support for Ektron's eWebEditPro at Ektron's full-featured support site. Includes software downloads, release notes, searchable knowledge base and interactive discussion forum.

The Macromedia Developer's Exchange is, without a doubt, the first place to go for third-party custom tags and full-featured applications. This resource library is vast, with thousands of free and not-so-free wares available for immediate download. Search titles and descriptions for keywords or browse by category for just the right app to solve your development dillemma.

Defusion is among the best and oldest online ColdFusion magazines in "print." Articles are concise, useful and updated regularly. Other resources are useful, if subordinate to other recommendations on this page. For example, when Macromedia's forums and Developer's Exchange fail to answer your needs, try Defusion's "Resources" and "Discussions" areas, respectively.

What better way to share your programming chops with fellow developers than in person, face-to-face, and most importantly, over a nice cold pint o' Guinness Stout? Macromedia provides this convenient, searchable library of ColdFusion User's Groups (CFUGs) so that you can find a gaggle of programmers (or is it a "pride" of programmers) nearest you. Have fun!

Ben Forta, long-time ColdFusion "evangelist" and author of so many authoritative books on the subject, publishes his own website, complete with library of columns and articles written for ColdFusion Developer's Journal and others.