ColdFusion and Lucee
ColdFusion was one of those technologies I knew about for years without ever actually using. I finally started poking at it in December 2025.
I had heard of ColdFusion MX back when it was current, but that was about the extent of my experience with it. I never built sites with it, never administered a ColdFusion server, and never had an old CFML codebase sitting around waiting for me to come back to it.
What started as curiosity about an old web-development platform turned into a bigger question: what does ColdFusion look like now? That is what led me from an old ColdFusion MX 7 lab to Lucee, current CFML, Linux, and the modern side of the platform.
This section is not a ColdFusion guide. It is just where I am keeping notes while I learn.
What I am looking at now
Most of my attention is on modern CFML and Lucee. I have Lucee running on AlmaLinux, connected to a database, and I am using a small test application to get a feel for the language and the way a CFML application is put together.
- Modern CFML and Lucee is my running look at what ColdFusion-style development looks like today.
- CFML notes contains the language bits that are starting to make sense to me.
- My Lucee test app is the little project I am using to learn by actually building something.
Why the old MX stuff is here
ColdFusion MX is what originally made me curious about ColdFusion in the first place. I knew of it back in the 2000s, but I never really looked under the hood until December 2025. Recreating that older environment gave me a useful starting point and also scratched my usual old-software itch.
If that side interests you too, I have a few notes on why I wanted to try ColdFusion MX and the retro lab I built for it.
Still figuring it out
PHP and MySQL are still much more familiar territory for me. With ColdFusion and Lucee, I am very much still in the stage of trying things, reading documentation, breaking small test applications, and deciding what I think of the platform.
That is really the point of this section.