An Architect's View

A conversation on the Railo mailing list, initially about free CFML hosting, turned into a discussion of the scarcity of CFML books. Several people felt that CFML was so easy that books just weren't as necessary as for other technologies. I agreed, and then I shared my current book list (stacked to the right of my computer). I figured I'd share it on my blog as well, just as a data point for some varied reading for CF developers:

• Adobe ColdFusion Anthology (the FAQU stuff) - 3 copies (I was a TR on the book)
• Programming in Scala
• The D Programming Language (review copy)
• Modern C++ Design (possibly a review copy - it dates back over a decade I think)
• Enterprise Integration Patterns
• Groovy Recipes
• Groovy in Action
• ColdFusion 8 Developer Tutorial (I was a TR on the book)
• Java Persistence with Hibernate
• Spring in Action
• Grails in Action (also eBook formats)
• Adobe Flex 2 (definitely a review copy or raffle prize or some other free source)
• Essential ActionScript 3.0 (probably a review copy)
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
• Refactoring to Patterns

In addition, I have purchased a number of eBooks:

• Becoming Agile
• Clojure in Action
• Distributed Agile in Action
• Erlang and OTP in Action
• JBoss in Action
• Lift in Action
• Objective C for the iPhone

And then in my eBooks folder I also have assorted technical papers on Scala, Forth, TDD, concurrent programming and no-SQL databases!