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    ColdFusion Weekly is among the many ColdFusion resources available to us CF programmers in an attempt to make us all better at what we do.  I was once told that if you want to be great at what you do you must love what you, always take the road less traveled, and do it all the time.  Another words you should constantly be improving your game.  Like when we we’re young, if we wanted to good at a sport we had to love the game, love to practice, and learn by challenging yourself.  Too often many programmers (and not just CF programmers) follow the same routine, using the same old code, and never progress while the technology continually evolves.  One important role of any technologist is to keep abreast of new technologies, methodologies, solutions, and more.
    There are many ways a CF programmer can widen and deepen their knowledge and love for the language including attending CFUG meetings, listening to CF podcasts, taking CF quizzes, reading up on Forta’s Web Application Construction Kit or Advanced CF MX 7 Application Development books, reading gurus’ blogs (such as this ), and more.
    A great CF learning resource I came across the other day is ColdFusion Weekly, which hosts CF_QUIZ to challenge your CF knowledge as well as a CF Podcast that you can even call into with your own questions.  There is also the CFUnited Podcast, The ColdFusion podcast, and Helms and Peters Out Load.
    Also, try to regularly check out the several great blogs dedicated to ColdFusion such as (in no particular order):

• Pete Freitag’s Blog
• Simon Horwith’s Blog
• Sean Corfield’s Blog
• Robi Sen’s Blog
• Ray Camden’s Blog
• Mark Kruger’s Blog
• Ben Forta’s Blog