The secrets of a system integrator. My Journey of Startup, Product + Project Development
Once you’re past why someone would develop a new program in ColdFusion, you find a rich community of developers, examples, libraries and frameworks.
I’ve been playing around with the ColdBox Framework for ColdFusion for a few months.
What lead me to ColdBox was a period of discovering and playing around with the discoveries I made with ColdFusion 9 and it’s killer Hibernate ORM integration.
I could no longer program, ever again until ColdFusion 9 came out.. it made for a slower fall on new projects. I decided to dust off the old exploration cap and started looking at what was new and developing in the ColdFusion world.
Today I dealt with a strange issue on one of my client’s servers. It was running ColdFusion 8 Standard, inside a Windows 2003 Server VMware virtual machine.
The first time ColdFusion Server was installed, it crashed/timed out. So we rebooted and uninstalled it. We reinstalled and everything looked okay. When we went into the Coldfusion Administrator and tried to create a new collection, we were presented with an error telling us that the search services are not installed.
Great news,
After enjoying the alpha and beta testing of Coldfusion 9, it has finally been released to the world to do what no other language for the web can do.
Get more done with less code, out of the box. ColdFusion has been my secret swiss-army knife for the past 10 years, while continuing to work [...]
One thing I’ve found myself doing more and more in ColdFusion is using it for it’s integration powers to parse data, or do batch performing tasks. With it’s Java underbelly, ColdFusion does most things great, and if you want even more performance, tie into the Java layer!
I come from the group of people who pursue the dream that computers and technology should make people’s lives easier. That’s why ruthless automation is at the center of most startups, or businesses that are growing. Keep people dealing with people — what they do best, and let your system handle the details for you!
Coldfusion is power with ease. It gets most anything done faster, cheaper, on time compared to any other language.
The language is no where in decline or dying, it’s used by very large organizations who seem to value CF developers highly. Developers can be hard to find, but on the flip side, its probably the easiest language to learn for the web and easily among the top in terms of power and ability.
There is no decision that will impact your decision more in any software project than choosing the correct tool. The language, platform, framework and architecture you employ will decide whether you sink or swim. The right choices will help buoy you through great developers and average developers.
It is true that picking the right developers goes a long way, but if you handcuff them everything is going to be significantly slower, and tedious, leading to programmer burnout.
Anyone suggesting a language (including me) will only..
I am generally technology agnostic, and pick the best tool for the job. When anyone tries to convince you of why to use this or that, it’s usually a personal preference.
What I have found is, Coldfusion is a productivity multiplier. It allows one developer to do the work of many people.
For me, Coldfusion is