www.cfblogs.org is meant to replace the popular 'ColdFusion Bloggers' blog aggregator that has been so popular in the ColdFusion community over the last ten years. Unfortunately, the original ColdFusion Bloggers platform is no longer active due to the unfortunate demise of Wil Genovese, who maintained Cfbloggers after Raymond Camden provided Wil with the keys. However, I developed a new replacement application that offers much more functionality, and the new cfblogs.org aggregator can be found here: http://www.cfblogs.org

 

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History

I have always wanted to get involved in this project. Raymond's aggregator was an integral part of our ColdFusion community, and it is a core requirement for my continued efforts in developing Galaxy Blog.

When I noticed that the CfBloggers site had gone down, I immediately contacted Raymond Camden and asked him for the most recent code. Raymond entrusted me with his most recent ColdFusion codebase, which was from 2013. In the last two weeks, I was able to rewrite and modernize Raymond's original CfBloggers code, and I believe that I have all of the original functionality intact.

New Features

The following features are available in this version of the code:

  • Updated server-side logic in ColdFusion using modern APIs and Twitter post-sharing functionality
  • Vastly improved mobile device handling
  • A modern responsive HTML5 single-page application with Kendo grids
  • Full search capabilities
  • All of the current feeds have been personally reviewed and are current
  • Blog Posts are posted on the CfBlogs Twitter feed
  • Twitter logic has been completely rewritten in ColdFusion 2018
  • RSS options from Google Feedburner
  • CfBlogs RSS feed allows the user to extract a certain amount of posts
  • Blog posts are aggregated every 20 minutes or so.

CfBlog RSS options

CfBlogs uses the CfBlogs FeedBurner for the main RSS feed. You can find it here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/CfblogsFeed.

You may also use our local CfBlogs feed located at http://gregoryalexander.com/cfblogs/rss.cfm?max=50.

Our local CfBlogs feed allows for the following options:

By default, the local RSS feed will return the last 50 items. You can change this by adding ?max=N to the URL, where N is 1 to 100. To show the last five entries, use:
http://gregoryalexander.com/cfblogs/rss.cfm?max=5

Filtering the local feed has not been implemented yet. I will gladly implement it later if requested.

How to add your site to this feed

If you wish to send me feedback about the site or get your blog added, please email me at Gregory at gregoryalexander dot com. If you want me to include your blog, please include your blog's name, URL, and RSS URL.

I can also work with other blog owners to see if we can archive their existing blog posts. Contact me if you're interested.

Please follow us on Twitter.

CfBlogs tweets any new blog postings on the CfBlogs Twitter feed at https://twitter.com/CfBlogsFeed. The Twitter functionality should mirror the original Twitter functionality of the ColdFusion Bloggers site.

I hope to develop similar functionality to Facebook soon.

CfBlogs Future

In the future, I hope to add Facebook social media sharing, make major improvements, and fix some of the bugs that were found. I also hope to contact Media3, and other potential partners to see if they will sponsor this site. I also hope to gather a few other folks and provide them with the keys so that our ColdFusion community can rely on this site if one of us goes down.

I also hope to include the new full codebase in an upcoming Galaxie Blog version so that other blog owners can adopt this functionality.

The CfWebTools team may be able to resurrect the original ColdFusion Bloggers code (in node.js). If they are able to do so, I hope that the resurrected site will be complementary. That said, I fully intend to make this code much more functional in the future.

Please don't hesitate to contact me with any ideas or suggestions!

Special Thanks

Many thanks go out to Raymond Camden, who assisted me and provided me with his updated code; Adam Euans, who helped compile a new active feed list; and Charlie Arehart, who is, as always, a trusted person to bounce ideas off of and ask for advice.