In light of the departure of the ColdFusion Weekly podcast (so long Matt and Peter, and thank you!), I have assembled a list of my favorite “shows” or “episodes”. Really, all of the episodes were good and worth hearing. But these episodes were fantastic.

Presented in chronological order:

• v1.5 - IDEs of…April: Came at a perfect time for me, because I had just switched to CFEclipse recently. So it was great confirmation for me and I enjoyed the Eclipse plugin recommendations. This episode is good for anyone still using Dreamweaver or HomeSite.
• v1.6 - Version Control: Also had great timing, because I had already committed myself to exclusively using Subversion but hadn’t yet set up my Subversion server. While you’re at it, check out the follow-up episode on v1.29 - Source Control Revisited. These episodes are a nice way to be introduced to version control for web development.
• v1.10 - Design Pattern Safari: Probably one of the most classic episodes and a must-hear. All about design patterns like beans, DAOs, etc.
• v2.01 - Rise of the Virtual Machines: Discussion of virtualization technology on both Macs and Windows. Great discussion, because I think this is an important technology for web developers; I am a big proponent of virtualization.
• v2.02 - Cryptology and Security: This was very interesting because of the information that was discussed regarding encryption, hashing, and salt.
• v2.15 - Mark Mandel on Transfer: Very good consideration of the popular ORM, Transfer.
• v2.27 - Selenium: Discussion on testing your apps on the client side with Selenium.
• v3.06 - Open Source BlueDragon: Discussion with Vince Bonfanti about BlueDragon going open source.

I will miss Matt’s Vista rants. :-)  Thanks to both of you for all of your hard work.

If you’re hankering for a podcast to listen to, Brian Meloche is picking up where Matt and Peter left off with a new podcast called CFConversations. W00T!