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Luis Majano

August 15, 2019

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Modern CFML Book

 

We are very excited to announce the availability of the first edition of our book in digital format available for purchase. This book is completely FREE to read online, but now you can have your digital download for your ebook readers. The sale of this book also helps support all of our open source initiatives and makes you a rockstar in our book!

This book is dedicated to the ColdFusion (CFML) community at large so we can continue to foster its development and grow as a community that can share and lift each other up. It is also built with the ideal of helping organizations get out of legacy hell and modernize (Modernize or Die™).

ColdFusion is not the same as it was 20 years ago! It's dynamic, vibrant, modern, fluent, and functional! Let's begin our adventure into the world of MODERN ColdFusion .

Thank you for your patronage and enjoy the digital download!

PS: Print books are coming real soon!

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