[thelist] Cold Fusion

Michael Dinowitz mdinowit at houseoffusion.com
Fri May 14 12:45:01 CDT 2004


There are also some really useful resources such as the CF-Talk mailing list out
of House of Fusion (a useful resource in itself).
--
Michael Dinowitz
House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Finding technical solutions to the problems you didn't know you had yet




> Pros:
> Develop sites from scratch in a tenth the time of alternatives.
> Highly intuitive for handling structures, arrays, XML, queries.
> Query of Query !! How lazy could I be?  :)
> Has become, with MX scalable for very large sites.
> Has become, with MX really quite fast.  Script code is compiled and cached.
> Sits on a J2EE platform.
> CFMAIL, with dynamic queries. = =  5 mins for novice to write a sp @m
> in-ator
> (must be a bad thing no? :)
> CF tags just make sense with HTML code.. it just looks loverly too.
> Option to use script language if you really feel the tag-based code
> inferior.
> Programmer friendly errors.
> Nice administration web interface.
> CF Studio.... ie Homesite  for CF.
> Training others to write in CF in a tenth the time of alternatives.
> Can train a programming novice to program in a very short time.
> It's easy.
>
> Cons
> Quality of programming  is down to the programmer. (see the pro: Can train a
> programming novice to program in a very short time.)  You can really end up
> with a pile of spaghetti if you're not careful.
> Cost
> It's too easy.
>
> I am biased BTW;)
>
> Whether the costs justify the benefits depends on a number of things, but
> mostly what you plan to use it for.  What do you plan to use it for?
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rob Smith" <rob.smith at THERMON.com>
>
> > This is just a general post to those of you out there employing a CF
> > solution. What do you like about it? Hate about it? Do you think the costs
> > justify the benefits? etc.
> >
> > Appreciating your thoughts,
>
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