I bought the Cold Fusion MX Web Application Construction Kit just yesterday from Amazon,  out of a sense of urgency to get going and learn this....already several contacts I have made are doing work in Cold Fusion.  Since I'm already in the Macromedia fan corner,  I might as well do it.

The frustrating thing is,  I had begun to see,  back in December,  that Cold Fusion was a handy thing to know.  Three of my early contacts ,  all in December,  all worked in Cold Fusion (I was aware of only one of those three were using it at the time).  That was just before Christmas.  After Christmas,  thinking that I needed to spend as much time as possible selling my present skills,  and that "surely something" was just around the corner,  I never picked it up to start learning.  A couple months later I had an interview, and the major strike against me was that I had no Cold Fusion experience.  Soon after that,  I bought the book, and began looking at it,  but soon felt compelled to return it after what I thought had been a promising possibility of a temp project fell through.  That was late March.  Now,  an additional two months later,  Cold Fusion seems to be on half the available jobs I run across.

It all looks so familiar,  from having been an ASP developer.....the learning curve seems to be quite manageable,  and having an editor that will do code via a familiar WYSIWYG environment (Dreamweaver) makes it a candidate for even faster mastering.  Forta's book seems quite complete (1500 pages).  I hope to find some reputable training,  if not just start working my way through this book and the accompanying CD. Forta also has another book that I ordered along with this one,  which covers using Dreamweaver MX as the development environment for Cold Fusion MX.

Coldfusion MX Development with Dreamweaver MX: Visual Quickpro Guide