Steve Drucker

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)

Session Management The Hard Way

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)

Blueprint 1.5 from Ivis Technologies, Inc.

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)

CommonSpot Content Server 3.0 from PaperThin

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)