For thousands of developers, ColdFusion still pays the bills, and likely will for some time to come, if judging only by the growth in the markets where it is most prominent. Adobe says that CF is thriving with a community of more than half a million developers, but how many of those developers are thriving [...]
99% of the people who visit a web site don’t care how it works, or how it was built. They don’t care if you’re using ColdFusion or PHP, and they don’t care if you’re using post or get variables. The remaining one percent comprises some techie types like me, and probably you, and some people with less than honourable intentions. [...]
There is a lot of buzz about “The Cloud” and I think it’s warranted. Every time someone gets a CFML engine running in a cloud environment, like the recent cloud successes involving Railo and Open BlueDragon, the community gets a little more interested. I’m sure there’s a way to get ColdFusion server, in certain deployments, [...]
I’ve just about had it with the blog posts, articles, and Twitter comments about the death of ColdFusion – all from those who have never even read up on it, let alone used it. Aral Balkin’s ignorant blog post about ColdFusion back in January was uninformed, and was quickly attacked with the full wrath of the [...]
If you are a web developer, and you spend a lot of time writing code, and you use a Mac, you need to use Coda. Download it here Coda is marketed as “one window web development” and it really is. I’ve been going back and forth between Dreamweaver and Eclipse for coding over the past [...]