Welcome to the wonderful world of dynamic programming with ColdFusion \. The purpose of this book is to jump-start developers into the ColdFusion \ programming language from a **MODERN** perspective and a focus on best practices, object orientation, and tooling. ColdFusion is not the same as it was 20 years ago; yes it's more than 20 years old!
It's dynamic, vibrant, modern, fluent, and functional! Let's begin our adventure into the world of **MODERN** ColdFusion \.
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## Ortus Solutions, Corp
This book was written and maintained by [Luis Majano](https://www.luismajano.com) and the [Ortus Solutions](https://www.ortussolutions.com) Development Team.
> Ortus Solutions is a company that focuses on building professional open source tools, custom applications and great websites! We're the team behind ColdBox, the de-facto enterprise CFML HMVC Platform, TestBox, the CFML Testing and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) Framework, ContentBox, a highly modular and scalable Content Management System, CommandBox, the ColdFusion \ CLI, package manager, etc, and many more -
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