With all the talk both good and bad about Ruby on Rails, I am surprised few folks know about ColdFusion on Wheels within the CF community.
Well folks, you should really take a look at this cool framework. I'm not sure the exact date that CF Wheels 1.0 came out. Regardless it is out now, and I encourage everyone to check out this release.
In addition there is a post on the CF Wheels blog that talks about how their growth is comparing to the other CF frameworks.
Good to see Google seeing the benefits of ColdFusion. I saw this post on Ben's blog. Ben got an email from Ali Daniali about this. Check it out here!
Hope to see more of this from Google, I'm sure that we will. Smart people use smart technologies!
We are getting closer and closer to ColdFusion Builder being released. Long anticipated by the community, you can get your hands on it today.
Go GET IT NOW!
Well if you have the new Adobe ColdFusion 9 you do now!
If you go to Server Settings > Mail, you will see new options for setting up your keys to use this option.
Just saw this brought up on Ben's blog and thought it would be good info for everyone to know.
One of the analysts at the respected Gartner research group has made a post about his thoughts on CF 9
For a more in depth look from Gartner, check out this PDF
Adobe ColdFusion - Past Present and Future
Its very good to see these types of articles that are long overdue.
Make sure to check out the new page on Adobe.com about ColdFusion 9 and all of its new features.
Hear from developers in the community about this new release.
For another good summary make sure to check out the SitePoint review of What's new in ColdFusion 9
Well the blog has been dead for a while. Things have been crazy with the amount of work going on.
Thankfully this week I get a week to relax. Adobe has a shutdown this week so we are all off. I'm going to be turning allot of focus to the blog, as well as finishing the website.
New articles, I have a set of new articles that will be coming out on the Adobe Developer Connection. The articles are all about Adobe ColdFusion 9, and some of the really cool features packed into this version.
There are many great new features in Adobe ColdFusion 9, and now you can try them out for yourself in the public beta. I know I'm a little late posting this so forgive me for that. Adobe has done an amazing job with ColdFusion 9, looking at the features and effort put into this amazing version, proves the commitment from Adobe to the product.
So what are you waiting for, go to Adobe Labs and check out the new beta's.
I know some people are unaware of the Adobe.tv site. There are many great videos across all product lines.
Here is a great video by Jason Delmore the Senior Product Manager for ColdFusion.
In this video he shows how in the next release of ColdFusion you will be able to leverage the baked in hibernate technology.
In short, see how you don't have to write any CFQUERY tags, or SQL. In addition he will show you a preview of how Bolt (new cf ide coming soon) allows you to auto generate the required CFC's and Hibernate files to get you up and running with the quickness!
Enjoy: Centaur ORM on Adobe TV
A developer new to ColdFusion made a post in the Adobe forums. After reading this though the developer made some really great points. When talking about researching CF, the reader had some of the following points.
"So I thought well I am using Adobe anyway let's see this ColdFusion rather than go back to MS or turn to PHP/ROR. You have to understand having been in front ends and graphics I have some basics of them all anyway.
I nearly did not as the web is not full of praise at all on the surface for CF. ROR is hyped but I did not like it's feel (framework is good bit CF does it too if you want to). The PHP community was too fragmented into a multitude of Open Source Projects - most of which I would never use. ASP had changed too much for me and I did not own a windows license anymore. I am using OSX and Linux distros of the day.
So I looked up the CF community. I noticed unlike the PHP/ASP/ROR etc you had kinda like father figures here (who help newbies!)." -Scot2009
And this quote as well:
"You can learn for free. What is all this CF costs money rubbish I was told before I started. I have found very good shared hosts with great prices and even some using open source CF really cheap. If you need a dedicated machine and can't afford CF then you can't afford a dedicated machine. So that is all rubbish that is spread by other web application server language users. Adobe needs to make new coders know this is rubbish." -Scot2009
So in short, this new developer found that most of the anti-CF stuff on the web is rubbish. For those of us who use the technology every day, we know most of this is rubbish and don't pay attention to unfounded rants by others.
From what this user said, he was almost turned away from CF by the fragmented rants of other communities. I hope Adobe pays attention to this users post, Adobe (IMHO) needs to make better efforts to kill these myths from a marketing prospective.
