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ASP/Coldfusion CMS
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29-07-2005 4:48pm#1
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rsynnott wrote:ColdFusion? COLDFUSION?! Doe that still exist?
Unfortunately, yes, yes it does. See: http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/ - It's generally given out as part of the Studio suite. Hence the webdev people that know that Dreamweaver and Flash are good things automatically assume that all of the stuff is good, and that ColdFusion must be the server to use. (Plus, I can't remember if Dreamweaver has a thing for it itself)
OT: In fact, we have a client that requires the use of Coldfusion... given the minor fact that we're an internet society that doesn't want to shell out for a CF licence, we found a product called BlueDragon (http://www.newatlanta.com/products/bluedragon/index.cfm) that seems to do the trick, although it appears to be a minor beast of a thing, and requires such things as J2EE to run it.... however the basic version is free
Thus we it is the one we will wrangle with 
As for good scripts (Regardless of the language you use - it even has CFML if you're so inclined), I find http://www.hotscripts.com/ is decent enough. If I'm lazy it's the first site I look at... otherwise google is my friend.
(By the way, it's generally recommended that a page that calls phpinfo() is not a good thing to have publicly viewable - it's brilliant for diagnostics, but on the downside... it's brilliant for diagnostics)
As for databases and other crap, I find that www.devside.net has a really nice suite for windows... basically Apache, perl, php, mysql and a coupla useful tools for all of the above.
Anyway, good luck with the site,
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How come? If it's done sensibly Flash is pretty decent. They release plugins for all major OSs and browsers. Last I heard, they program for the wine library as opposed to the win32 library (subtle difference being that if it's programmed based on the wine library, you can run it in wine AND win32 with little hassle - it's a good cross platform step... they don't write for linux or any unix in particular, but if you can run wine you can run it).
Now, bear in mind, I said, if it's done SENSIBLY - i.e. you know how to code half-decently and have laid your objects out for reuse, then it reduces to a relatively ok size. HOWEVER, if it's a got lots of big bitmaps, a large chunk of mpg or mp3 just with some flash stuff wrapped around it, then it sucks... a LOT. (good examples of both can be found on newgrounds.com :P ) In the good ones, the vector graphics compress well (what with them being vector graphics) and scale really smoothly, and you can get good tiny files... even if you use a little bit of sound (sparingly)
That said, the debugger/IDE is a royal pain in flash though, which discourages programming sensibly and just to run what doesn't generate an error.
And being on dialup I tend to avoid anywhere with a .swf embedded (generally because they can't do it well). Hmph, I think I just defeated my own argument, and see the point of yours It's not the technology that sucks, it's the people that use it.
Take care
Phantom Beaker (Who really should start signing off with a real name at SOME point ) 0 -
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