Adobe ColdFusion 9 Tutorials and Resources

Adobe ColdFusion 9 has introduces lots of new features and enhancements. In this page I'm aggregating some of the ColdFusion 9 tutorials, features, articles, blog posts etc. Please contact me for any inputs and feedback or any correction, suggestion and modifications to the below list.

Last Updated : March 04, 2010 Total Tutorials: 187

ColdFusion 9 Tutorials and Resources

• CFML Language Enhancements Tutorials
• CFScript Enhancement Tutorials
• ColdFusion As a Serveice Tutorials
• Hibernate-based ORM Tutorials
• Microsoft SharePoint & Office Interoperability Tutorials
• Native JEE Portlets Tutorials
• UI Controls Tutorials
• Advance Caching Tutorials
• Apache Solr / Lucene Integration Tutorials
• Server Management Tool Tutorials
• Flex/AIR Integration Tutorials

CFML Language Enhancements Tutorials

• Introducing Adobe ColdFusion 9 beta by Ben Forta
• Reinventing SOA in Adobe ColdFusion 9 beta and ColdFusion Builder beta by Nicholas M. Tunney
• The Tenary Operator by Ben Nadel
• Application-Specific Data Sources by Ben Nadel
• Implicit Struct And Array Usage by Ben Nadel
• ColdFusion 9 Adds SpoolMail by Raymond Camden
• ColdFusion 9's New Application variable by Raymond Camden
• ColdFusion 9 fixes onRequest, adds onCFCRequest by Raymond Camden
• Virtual File System by Rob Brooks-Bilson
• Referencing Arrays Return From Methods by Ben Nadel
• Enhanced Flash Remoting (CF9) Vs. Old Flash Remoting by Jayesh Viradiya
• ColdFusion 9 language enhancements by John Whish
• More on ColdFusion 9's Virtual File System: Dealing with Directories and Files by Rob Brooks-Bilson
• Application.cfc OnCFCRequest Event Handler For CFC Requests by Ben Nadel
• Multi-file Uploads with ColdFusion 9 in 5 Lines by Brian Rinaldi
• ColdFusion 9 and CFFeed by Raymond Camden
• Learning ColdFusion 9: CFImport / New Operator Works With Tags As Well by Ben Nadel
• ColdFusion 9: Flex Improvements by Nathan Mische
• Learning ColdFusion 9: The Virtual File System (RAM Disk) by Ben Nadel
• Learning ColdFusion 9: ArrayFind() And ArrayContains() For Searching Arrays by Ben Nadel
• Learning ColdFusion 9: IsNull() And Working With NULL Values by Ben Nadel
• Playing with CFProgressBar by Raymond Camden
• Learning ColdFusion 9: Using OnCFCRequest() To Return JSONP (JSON With Padding) API Responses by Ben Nadel
• ColdFusion 9 PDF Enhancements by Terrence Ryan
• Ten ColdFusion 9 One-Liners by Sam Farmer
• Learning ColdFusion 9: CFScript Updates For ColdFusion Components by Ben Nadel
• Learning ColdFusion 9: CFScript Updates For Tag Operators by Ben Nadel
• Learning ColdFusion 9: Resetting Applications With ApplicationStop() by Ben Nadel
• ColdFusion 9 Virtual File System for your Application by Raymond Camden
• Nice ColdFusion 9 Admin Change - Settings Summary by Raymond Camden
• Learning ColdFusion 9: Delete Array Elements With ArrayDelete() by Ben Nadel
• Pulling Content out of Word with ColdFusion 9 by Terrence Ryan
• ColdFusion 9: onCFCRequest and Flash Remoting by Nathan Mische
• Learning ColdFusion 9: Using CFQuery (And Other Service Tags) In CFScript by Ben Nadel
• Learning ColdFusion 9: Using CFQuery In CFScript Can Enable SQL Injection Attacks by Ben Nadel
• Learning ColdFusion 9: Extending The Query.cfc Service Component by Ben Nadel
• Introspecting Application.cfc by Terrence Ryan
• Cool (and undocumented) ColdFusion 9 Feature by Raymond Camden
• Installing ColdFusion 9 by Vinu
• Using ColdFusion 9's new FileSeek by Raymond Camden
• createUUID speeded up in ColdFusion 9 by Raymond Camden
• ColdFusion 9 Property Annotations by Dan Vega
• Validating data in ColdFusion 9: Part II by Dan Vega
• Validating data in ColdFusion 9 by Dan Vega
• Hidden Gem in CF9: controlling Application.cfm/cfc lookup order by Charlie Arehart
• Dynamically Accessing Implicit Getters Using Script In ColdFusion 9 by Dan Vega
• Scripting a ColdFusion Application by Steve Cutter
• Can We Extend the ColdFusion Server by Steve Cutter
• ColdFusion 9: New Application Level SMTP Sever Settings for CFMail by Akbarsait
• Learning ColdFusion 9: Iterating Over Pseudo XML Node Wrappers With CFLoop by Ben Nadel
• Looping over an array in CFScript by Marc Esher
• Exploring ColdFusion 9: The Four New Data Types in CFGrid by Sam Farmer
• Quick example of jQuery/ColdFusion 9 multifile uploader by Raymond Camden
• Working with Dynamic Map Markers in ColdFusion 9 by Raymond Camden
• Writing a list of values to a spreadsheet in ColdFusion 9 by Dan Vega
• CFMAP and Centering by Raymond Camden
• Repeat - ColdFusion 9 does NOT remove the need to var scope! by Raymond Camden
• ColdFusion 9: Adding Document Level Attachments to a PDF with iText by CF Searching
• ColdFusion 9: CFPDF - Adding Headers and Footers (and a Few Quirks) - Part 1 by CF Searching
• ColdFusion 9: CFPDF - Adding Headers and Footers (and a Few Quirks) - Part 2 by CF Searching
• In ColdFusion 9, what isNull() and what is it good for by Sam Farmer

CFScript Enhancements Tutorials

• ColdFusion 9 Script Enhancement by Dan Vega
• ColdFusion 9 : Implicit/Generated CFC Methods by Rupesh Kumar
• ColdFusion 9 setting attributes in cfscript using javadoc syntax by Dan Vega
• ColdFusion 9 Application cfc script reference by Dan Vega
• Using Multi-Part Class Paths With CFScript-Based Argument Types by Ben Nadel
• ColdFusion 9 Script-Based Method Definitions Work Inside CFScript by Ben Nadel

ColdFusion As a Serveice Tutorials

• CFaaS Demo - Dead Bike by Raymond Camden
• ColdFusion 9 at Your Service: Image Manipulation with AIR) by Kai Koenig
• ColdFusion as a Service (part 1) by Matt Gifford
• Intercepting "ColdFusion As A Service" SOAP And RESTful Component Requests by Ben Nadel
• ColdFusion as a Service Examples - HTML/jQuery by Raymond Camden

Hibernate-based ORM Tutorials

• ORM - Rethinking ColdFusion Database Integration by Ben Forta
• Introducing ORM in Adobe ColdFusion 9 beta by Mark Mandel
• Getting Started with ColdFusion-ORM by Manju Kiran
• ColdFusion-ORM: Using CRUD Functions by Manju Kiran
• ColdFusion 9 ORM example by John Whish
• Introducing the ColdFusion 9 ORM Event Handler by John Whish
• ColdFusion 9 ORM - Explaining Hibernate Sessions by Mark Mandel
• ColdFusion-ORM: Define One-to-Many and Many-to-one relationships by Manju Kiran
• ColdFusion ORM : The basics by Rupesh Kumar
• ColdFusion-ORM: Collections by Manju Kiran
• ColdFusion ORM and CFC Performance by Rupesh Kumar
• Getting metadata from CF9 ORM by John Whish
• ColdFusion-ORM: Define Computed properties (formula attribute) by Manju Kiran
• ColdFusion 9 ORM - More on Flushing Hibernate Sessions by Mark Mandel
• ColdFusion-ORM: Collections by Manju Kiran
• ColdFusion-ORM: Define Computed properties (formula attribute) by Manju Kiran
• ColdFusion ORM : How to log SQL by Rupesh Kumar
• ColdFusion 9 and the ORM a simple example by Paul Kukiel
• Select Top n with CF9 ORM by John Whish
• Learning ColdFusion 9: Exploring Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) by Ben Nadel
• Small update to CF9 ORM CMS Demo by Raymond Camden
• Learning ColdFusion 9: Refreshing And Rebuilding An ORM Application by Ben Nadel
• ColdFusion ORM : Troubleshooting ? 'Lazy' does not work by Rupesh Kumar
• CF9 ORM blog sample application by John Whish
• Learning ColdFusion 9: When Does An ORM-Enabled Object Get Persisted by Ben Nadel
• Learning ColdFusion 9: From SQL To ORM - A Conceptual Shift In Relationships by Ben Nadel
• CF9 ORM - Clearing the session cache by John Whish
• ColdFusion 9 ORM - Explaining Hibernate Object State by Mark Mandel
• Overloading ORM Implicit Get and Set Methods by Mark Mandel
• Learning ColdFusion 9: EntityNew() vs. The NEW Operator / CreateObject() by Ben Nadel
• Learning ColdFusion 9: ORM Inheritance Mapping by Ben Nadel
• Learning ColdFusion 9: Trying To Understand ORM Event Handling by Ben Nadel
• Learning ColdFusion 9: Understand ORM Events (Thanks John Whish!) by Ben Nadel
• ColdFusion 9 debugging hibernate schema exports by Dan Vega
• Using CF9's ORM Features Under Tomcat by Bob Silverberg
• Coldfusion 9 ORM with Hibernate Part 1 by Gary Gilbert
• Dumping Results of EntityLoads in ColdFusion 9 ORM by Bob Silverberg
• Simple Base Persistent (ORM) Object for CF9 Now Available by Bob Silverberg
• Some thoughts on ColdFusion 9 ORM and Persistent CFCs by by Raymond Camden
• ColdFusion ORM : Performance tuning ? Fetching Strategy by Rupesh Kumar
• ColdFusion ORM : Performance tuning ? Lazy loading by Rupesh Kumar
• ColdFusion ORM : What is "N+1 Select problem" by Rupesh Kumar
• ColdFusion ORM : Using DB Views instead of Table by Rupesh Kumar
• CF9 ORM - Experimenting with type vs ormtype by Bob Silverberg
• Hibernate & ColdFusion 9 - What is ORM? by Alagad Blog
• ColdFusion 9 ORM: Data Mapper versus Active Record by Terrence Ryan
• ColdFusion 9 ORM: Generic DAO wrapper by Joe Rinehart
• Multiple Databases in ColdFusion 9 ORM by Terrence Ryan
• Creating Gateways using a GatewayFactory for ORM by John Whish
• ColdFusion-ORM: Auto-generation of tables, Naming Strategy and automatically populating data by Manju Kiran
• CF9 ORM Quick Tip - Removing All Items from A Collection by Bob Silverberg
• Introduction to ColdFusion ORM by ColdFusioning
• Stupid ColdFusion ORM Tricks - Returning Everything by Bob Silverberg
• Using ColdFusion ORM with Legacy Databases by Andrew Scott
• More ColdFusion 9 and working with Legacy Databases Part II by Andrew Scott
• ColdFusion/ORM Example - Filtering with a many to many by Raymond Camden
• ORM Event Handling in ColdFusion 9 by Tony Nelson
• ORM and the Nested Set Model by John Whish
• ORM Model data Validation in ColdFusion 9 by Dan Vega
• ColdFusion ORM : Keeping database in sync with your model by Rupesh Kumar
• ColdFusion 9 ORM Tip - Count related entities by Raymond Camden
• Dynamically injecting data into an Object by Sam Farmer
• ColdFusion 9 ORM Event Handlers Use Case by Dan Vega
• ColdFusion 9 ORM, findBy, searchBy, countBy and more by Andrew
• More on CF9 ORM Relationships by Brain Kotek
• ColdFusion 9 ORM and mapping an older database by Andrew
• ColdFusion 9 ORM and relationships by Rick Osborne
• CF9 ORM Quick Tip - Removing all items from a collection defined as a structure by Bob Silverberg
• ColdFusion 9 ORM and Transactions - It Does Not Mean What You Think it Means. by Mark Mandel

Microsoft SharePoint & Office Interoperability Tutorials

• CFSpreadsheet - Referencing columns as a character in ColdFusion 9 by Will Wilson
• Dynamic Power Point presentation using ColdFusion by Vinu
• Creating dynamic charts in Spreadsheet using Coldfusion by Vinu
• Coldfusion 9 Sharepoint Integration - ViewCollection by Gary Gilbert

Native JEE Portlets Tutorials

• Adobe MAX: Building JEE Portlets with ColdFusion 9 by Pete Freitag

UI Controls Tutorials

• ColdFusion 9 Ajax Components powered by Ext 3.0+ by Dan Vega
• ColdFusion 9 UI Enhancements: Creating Accordion Navigation Using CFLayout tag by Akbarsait
• ColdFusion 9: New Attributes in CFGrid by Akbarsait

Advance Caching Tutorials

• Caching Enhancements in ColdFusion 9 by Terrence Ryan
• ColdFusion 9 and Caching Enhancements by Raymond Camden
• ColdFusion 9 and Caching Enhancements(2) by Raymond Camden
• Caching Enhancements in ColdFusion 9 - Part 1: Why Cache by Rob Brooks-Bilson
• Caching Enhancements in ColdFusion 9 - Part 2: Caching Granularity by Rob Brooks-Bilson
• Caching Enhancements in ColdFusion 9 - Part 3: Caching Architectures by Rob Brooks-Bilson
• Caching Enhancements in ColdFusion 9 - Part 4: Caching Strategies & Eviction Policies by Rob Brooks-Bilson
• Caching Enhancements in ColdFusion 9 Part 5: Getting to Know Ehcache by Rob Brooks-Bilson
• 14 Days of ColdFusion 9 Caching: Day 1 - Caching a Full Page by Aaron West
• Caching Enhancements in ColdFusion 9 - Part 6: Configuring Caches and Working with ehcache.xml by Rob Brooks-Bilson
• 14 Days of ColdFusion 9 Caching: Day 2 - Caching a Page Fragment by Aaron West
• 14 Days of ColdFusion 9 Caching: Day 3 - Viewing Page Cache Metadata by Aaron West
• 14 Days of ColdFusion 9 Caching: Day 4 - Flushing a Template From Cache by Aaron West
• Caching Enhancements in ColdFusion 9 - Part 7: Using the Template Cache by Rob Brooks-Bilson
• Caching Enhancements in ColdFusion 9 - Part 8: Expiring and Flushing Items in the Template Cache by Rob Brooks-Bilson
• 14 Days of ColdFusion 9 Caching: Day 5 - The Difference Between Timespan and Idletime by Aaron West
• 14 Days of ColdFusion 9 Caching: Day 6 - Using cachePut, cacheGet, and cacheGetMetadata by Aaron West
• Caching Enhancements in ColdFusion 9 ? Part 9: Dependent Template Caching by Rob Brooks-Bilson
• 14 Days of ColdFusion 9 Caching: Day 8 - Cache Hits and Cache Misses by Aaron West
• 14 Days of ColdFusion 9 Caching: Day 9 - Dependent Caching by Aaron West
• 14 Days of ColdFusion 9 Caching: Day 10 - Session-Specific Caching by Aaron West
• 14 Days of ColdFusion 9 Caching: Day 11 - Reporting On All Items in Cache by Aaron West
• 14 Days of ColdFusion 9 Caching: Day 12 - Removing All Items in Cache by Aaron West
• 14 Days of ColdFusion 9 Caching: Day 13 - Retrieving the Server Cache Properties by Aaron West
• 14 Days of ColdFusion 9 Caching: Day 14 - Setting the Server Cache Properties by Aaron West

Apache Solr / Lucene Integration Tutorials

• Tuning ColdFusion Solr: Part 2 by Vinu
• Tuning ColdFusion Solr: Part 1 by Vinu
• Searching for synonyms.. by Vinu
• ColdFusion 9 Solr startup scripts for OS X by Shannon Hicks
• Simple ColdFusion 9 ORM/Solr Example by Raymond Camden
• Some basic Solr/Verity Differences by Raymond Camden

Server Management Tool Tutorials

• Simplified ColdFusion Server Management by Ben Forta
• Quick example of Diff within the ColdFusion Server Manager by Raymond Camden

Flex And AIR Integration Tutorials

• ColdFusion 9 - AIR SQLLite offline Support by Jayesh Viradiya
• ColdFusion AIR Synchronization by Terrence Ryan
• Changes in the XML configuration files for Flash Remoting in ColdFusion 9 by Rakshith
• Flash Remoting in ColdFusion 9 is super fast! by Rakshith
• Data-Centric Development with ColdFusion 9 and Flash Builder 4 by Nathan Mische
• Data-Centric Development with ColdFusion 9 and Flash Builder 4 - Part I by Nathan Mische
• Data-Centric Development with ColdFusion 9 and Flash Builder 4 - Part 2 by Nathan Mische