More recently, I returned to some Cold Fusion programming (In the late 90s, I owned and operated coldfusionprogrammer.com – a site dedicated to Cold Fusion development  – but moved to other platforms since then).

I was pleased to see that the development server (CFServer) was still completely free of cost (downloadable here – choose ‘Developer Edition’).

The IDE (CF Builder), however, was not free. So – I started digging around – and much to my dismay, did not easily find a low cost alternative to writing CFML code. Then I came across ‘First Page’ – primarily an HTML editor – but one that understood CF tags as well. No bells and whistles like intellisense etc. – but at a very basic level, lets you write CFML and HTML code without any interruptions. In fact, the HTML editor is one of the most intuitive that I have seen.

So – with the free CF server – and the free IDE – I was up and CFing in no time. A few stumbling blocks were related to IIS 7 (and IIS 8) and adding datasources to ColdFusion Server. Once those are overcome, I was all set to do CFML development on my local box.

NOTE: If you are just looking for a free HTML and CSS editor (without CFML support), take a look at KompoZer .

Anuj holds professional certifications in Google Cloud, AWS as well as certifications in Docker and App Performance Tools such as New Relic. He specializes in Cloud Security, Data Encryption and Container Technologies.

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