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9 ways ColdFusion 8 will rule web development
Ben Forta and Adobe are getting into full swing with ColdFusion 8 Scorpio Pre-Release tour. Last night Ben gave us in Seattle a taste of things to come. Here is why it will kick the tar balls out of everything else on the market.- Built in AJAX widgets. Create AJAX windows, auto complete forms, calendar popups, grids, WYSIWYG editors, and much more. All using simple ColdFusion based tags and generating industry standard solutions such as Prototype and Yahoo User Interface Javascript.
- Native JSON support. ColdFusion components now know if they are called by a web browser and will return JSON formated data automatically. You can also create JSON packets directly or consume them and turn them into native ColdFusion objects.
- .NET (and Java!) integration. Pull in .NET objects and use them like native ColdFusion objects. Combine .NET and Java on the same page if you like. Easily the best web based middleware solution.
- Microsoft Exchange integration. Love it or hate it, most organizations use Exchange religiously. Now you can read and update email, calendars, tasks and much more. No change to the Exchange server is required.
- Flash based presentation builder. Combine HTML, Audio, Flash Movies, Images, and CFCharts to create spiffy flash based presentations on the fly. Just wrap your existing pages in CFPRESENTATION and you are on your way.
- Full PDF integration. Create, combine, update, and interact with PDF files using CFPDF and CFPDFFORM tags.
- Native image manipulation functions. Blur, sharpen, draw, rotate, stream to browser, and much much more. This finally brings ColdFusion's image support in line with PHP and other frameworks while keeping it so simple that even I could use it.
- Across the board enhancements. Improvements in security, speed, Flash Forms, Report Builder, and more.
- Administration API. Now you can access, audit, and snapshot all the information the server knows about itself. No longer is ColdFusion a black box. Audit long running processes, most frequently run queries, and bottle necks. SnapShot the server before making your change or doing a reset so that you can analyze potential problems later.
ColdFusion 8 Scorpio should land sometime in mid-2007. You know I'll be there.
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Subscribe to commentsTomMay 1st 2007 4:21AM
To the .NET Loser,
I've coded in both and will take CF anyday over .NET because of all the .NOT you get in the wasted time that comes from all that .NET drag-n-drop overhead. What a Micro$oft fanboy! If you like your .NOT life well .LIVE .WITH .IT and .QUIT .YOUR .BITCHIN and don't come here unless you can give an actual .RELEVANT .BALANCED point of view. Besides, .NET may be "free" but you still have to get a server to put it on and then hope you get everything right on it, or the webhost gets it right, besides all the coding overhead of having that "code behind" bullshit which was extraneously in the .NOT category for me. Besides, in a true, side-by-side comparison of similar projects where I converted one over from .NET to CF, it took me 3 days to complete whereas it was still incomplete in .NET (aka .SHIT) after a month or two. That was just coding, I won't even bother with all the server side setup for .NET w/ IIS 5 and IIS 6 that kept going down too.
Sincerely,
.PISSED .AT .NET
PlanoWaltMay 1st 2007 2:48PM
Just heard Forta in Dallas last nite. While I will admit he's a great salesman, I was blown away from what I see in Scorpio.
And to all the .Net lovers out there, ok, fine. We get it. Microsoft's finally getting around to actually doing something not laughable on the web.
Glad you could join the party , what, 10 years late?
CF_JimOKMay 9th 2007 8:25PM
Platform bashing is so tedious and irrelevant. If you like your platform, use it and prosper. If other people like it, it will thrive and grow. Obviously, CF will not literally 'rule' web development. Someone is just expressing their enthusiasm for the new product. If you want to prove your platform is superior, make awesome web apps. Then people will pay attention. Back to work everybody!
JasonMay 14th 2007 4:46PM
ultrafastneal - Not all of us need to debug our code. We're just that good :) Besides, CF allows you to perform IP-based debugging. AND Both Dreamweaver and CF-Eclipse have built in Debuggers. You just have to know how to configure them properly ;)
shimju davidMay 15th 2007 4:41AM
All technologies have its own merits and demerits.
I always use CFM for building any sort of web application developments except building "Out of Box Web softwares". For out of box one's I propose PHP or ASP.NET as both platform are free.
MichaelMay 30th 2007 6:14PM
I'm sure thats the reason coldfusion's page on the adobe site has had only a few lines changed since the merger/takeover/whatever by adobe. I wonder what adobe expects its publics to think.
Tom LenzJun 2nd 2007 11:55PM
"Coldfusion 8 ...heavily documented" Where exactly can this documentation be had?
AgentPolgasJul 28th 2007 7:00AM
And here's another idiot thinking that CF is just a language that never quite made it:
http://www.softwaredeveloper.com/features/ghosts-in-machine-071207/
JFAug 3rd 2007 1:31PM
I like CF. Always have. MX7 was really cool. Best mail service/tags available for one.
But in the NW there's just way more .NET jobs.
So when it comes to higher and consistant paychecks in my neighborhood, I will stick with what employers want.
And the majority want .NET.
So while it may rule web development, it does not rule demand.