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Cold Fusion

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  • 31-01-2006 12:05pm
    #1
    aido123
    Registered Users Posts: 84 ✭✭


    Hi guys

    Are there many cold fusion developers out there?


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    #2
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    I wouldn't call myself a developer, though I'm comfortable with it. It seems to be a rare enough one, though I've seen a few very big, very professional, well-coded sites running on coldfusion. It's not a wishy-washy language.


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    aido123
    Registered Users Posts: 84 ✭✭aido123


    yeah iuse it myself and its an exceptionally powerful and improved language, i have been using it on and off for about 4 years now and the dramatic difference that macromedia have brought to it is quite outstanding.

    I only know one other person that works in it and was just curious to see if there are many others out there....


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    rsynnott
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    seamus wrote:
    I wouldn't call myself a developer, though I'm comfortable with it. It seems to be a rare enough one, though I've seen a few very big, very professional, well-coded sites running on coldfusion. It's not a wishy-washy language.

    http://blog.rsynnott.com/2005/12/15/escortirelandcom/ - NSFW, but the only one that springs to mind...


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    satchmo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭satchmo


    When I worked in the webdev department of Ireland On-Line it was used for everything, but that was a good 6 or 7 years ago - looks like they use ASP now. I must say I liked working with CF, it was very easy to get to grips with, easy to use and easy to bang out something quickly with. I liked the whole custom tag idea too, and I'm sure it's improved in the time since I used it (I see that it's now owned by Macromedia, not Allaire).


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    The Corinthian
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    WebDev languages rise and fall. Cold Fusion was very popular between approximately 1998 and 2000, AFAIR. I remember toying with the idea of learning it at the time, but chose to learn PHP instead. Of course I learned Rebol too at the same time - so it really is a case of you win some, you lose some. Presently Ruby seems to be the ‘new’ fad - not that the language is really all that new, but the Rails bit is.

    In the case of Cold Fusion, it was as much economics that killed it as anything else. IIS already came with NT/2K Server, Tomcat and PHP were free, but Cold Fusion cost extra to set up on your server. There were debates about how scalable it was too, and I do remember many Cold Fusion sites being horribly slow, but that could easily have been the fault of bad coding - for which Cold Fusion, with its low learning curve, was notorious.

    Pretty much every Cold Fusion I know, went on to another language / platform, but do well paid legacy work on surviving Cold Fusion sites, from time to time.


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    damnyanks
    Registered Users Posts: 4,276 ✭✭✭damnyanks


    Yeah I remember using Coldfusion when it was version 4 / 4.5. Never really looked at it beyond that. It was a useful language. Quick to bang things out... but then again I didn't really go for the whole component based design back then so in heinsight it would of been almost the same as using Java or ASP!


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