In light of the departure of the ColdFusion Weekly podcast (so long Matt and Peter, and thank you!), I have assembled a list of my favorite “shows” or “episodes”. Really, all of the episodes were good and worth hearing. But these episodes were fantastic.
Presented in chronological order:
- v1.5 – IDEs of…April: Came at a perfect time for me, because I had just switched to CFEclipse recently. So it was great confirmation for me and I enjoyed the Eclipse plugin recommendations. This episode is good for anyone still using Dreamweaver or HomeSite.
- v1.6 – Version Control: Also had great timing, because I had already committed myself to exclusively using Subversion but hadn’t yet set up my Subversion server. While you’re at it, check out the follow-up episode on v1.29 – Source Control Revisited. These episodes are a nice way to be introduced to version control for web development.
- v1.10 – Design Pattern Safari: Probably one of the most classic episodes and a must-hear. All about design patterns like beans, DAOs, etc.
- v2.01 – Rise of the Virtual Machines: Discussion of virtualization technology on both Macs and Windows. Great discussion, because I think this is an important technology for web developers; I am a big proponent of virtualization.
- v2.02 – Cryptology and Security: This was very interesting because of the information that was discussed regarding encryption, hashing, and salt.
- v2.15 – Mark Mandel on Transfer: Very good consideration of the popular ORM, Transfer.
- v2.27 – Selenium: Discussion on testing your apps on the client side with Selenium.
- v3.06 – Open Source BlueDragon: Discussion with Vince Bonfanti about BlueDragon going open source.
I will miss Matt’s Vista rants. :-) Thanks to both of you for all of your hard work.
If you’re hankering for a podcast to listen to, Brian Meloche is picking up where Matt and Peter left off with a new podcast called CFConversations. W00T!
