Over the past three years as an Allaire partner, I have been involved in
countless marketing presentations where I touted ColdFusion as the best
solution for producing Web-based applications. During this time other product
vendors, instead of selling against CF based on feature comparisons, have
instead focused on peripheral issues. Throughout the CF 2.0 product cycle, I
would routinely be questioned about Allaire's staying power in the market,
financial performance and capital inflows. Allaire's rapidly expanding market
share and IPO silenced those critics. During the CF 3.x pro... (more)
Developing a data-entry interface for managing pesky lookup tables can be a
laborious task for even the most seasoned CF developer. These tables usually
include a few simple data fields - an identity column for use as a primary
key, a text descriptor and perhaps some ancillary information that needs to
be managed through a Web-based data-entry interface.
Single template editing (STE) is a... (more)
Over the last nine years, I must have coded at least 100 ColdFusion
applications. Many of these contained similar features - calendaring,
e-commerce, content management, and dynamic survey forms. Several were
"one-offs" - based on work done for previous customers with some modified
behavior and rebranding. Others were architected to work in either a
dedicated or "Application Service Prov... (more)
Currently there are more than 200 commercially available content management
systems (CMSs). Each has strengths and weaknesses relative to the
others...belying their underlying middleware platform and customer history.
While not all are ColdFusion based, I believe that the CommonSpot Content
Server 3.0 (the 2001 CFDJ Readers' Choice winner) from PaperThin, Inc., sets
a new standard for fl... (more)