Cozmo's Dev Blog - ColdFusion 8

Transfer now works on Railo (And is Insanely fast)

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:13:00-0700

I had read on the Railo Mailing list that Transfer now works on the latest release of Railo 3.0.1.000. So I went to check it out and loaded up the TBlog example app that comes with Transfer and much to my amazement it loaded up between 3-5 seconds (with Debugging on). I went and fired up the same app on CF 8 and it took 25-30 seconds (with debugging on as well). I know that having debugging turned on (Especially with CFC's) really slows down CF serve and is in no way indicative of how the app will perform in production. That, and that there is a significant performance cost when the CF server (re)creates the Java classes... But Daaaaaa-yum! That is almost a ten fold difference. And when I am developing I almost *always* have debugging on. I have also been testing a lot of apps (mine and others) on Railo to see what works and what doesn't. So far so good. The only significant problem I have had was with how Railo handles Structures on Rick Roots ColdFusion File Manager (CFFM). But other than that, most all of the apps that are part of my day in day out work day work flawlessly with Railo. Oh yeah, the latest version of Railo supports CFAjaxProxy. That SO ROCKS!!! Way to go Gert, Michael and the rest of the Railo Crew! I CANNOT WAIT to see Railo 3.1 on Nov 28.

InfoWorld story: Developers rank best application servers - Adobe ColdFusion among their favorites

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:15:00-0700

This is AWESOME!! The story was included in the "InfoWorld Platforms Report" Newsletter. Developers rank best application servers
"The 'user's choice' for application servers ranked Adobe ColdFusion, the open-source Apache Geronimo, and Oracle WebLogic Server among their favorites"
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/10/22/Developers_rank_best_application_servers_1.html?source=NLC-PLATFORMS&cgd=2008-10-22 This has been a LONG time coming. I am guessing that CF isn't all that dead. In fact it may be, to quote Adam Lehman, the "Best dead language... evar!"

I am almost there

Sun, 04 May 2008 06:39:00-0700

I have been working on yet another code generator for ColdFusion for the last six months. I have learned a lot. When I am done.... it will read a databse and using the metadata and it will create a working app using the ENTIRE database. It is like a mini Ruby on Rails.

You point it to the data source and a destination dir, press enter, and you have a working app. You can go from zero to working admin for a 20 table database in about a minute.

It also:

Generates client side validation based on the data type (string, numeric, float, date, etc.).
Generates time and date pickers for date/time fields.
Generates inline wussywig text editors for Text fields
Automatically generates and populates drop down boxes using foreign keys .
Has optional secondary validation using key words in the column name (like email, phone, fax, zip, etc.).
It is almost entirely Object Oriented and uses a very simple MVC methodology.

I am pretty pumped and have been working on this every chance I get. When I get it done, (It really snow balled from what seemed to be a very simple idea), I will be able to crank out a working app, with a couple of clicks, in a matter of minutes. And yes, I will be releasing it open source.

Dear Adobe

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:23:00-0700

Thanx for pissing off the CF user base.

I am a beta tester for ColdFusion 8 (Scorpio) WOOO WOO!!!!

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:53:00-0700

I have been itching to look at the new features that I have been reading about on the blogs. So I said what the hell and signed up. (pops). It probably helped that I worked for a Management Consulting firm with a slick web site. Anyways CF 8 Rocks!

Some of the stuff that I liked was:

The native AJAX and SPRY support.
RSS support
CFIMAGE
Menu building via cfmenu
Zip support via cfzip
.NET support
Support for Exchange Server inclusing support for calendar functions, contacts, tasks and so forth.
Native support for PDF forms and PDF manipulation such as merging documents and filling in and submitting PDF forms

Another this is that is very cool is the Eclipse Plug-ins with CRUD builders for CF and FLEX using the ColdFusion/Flex Application wizard

It also has a full featured debugging environment much like the one for Flex builder and MS Visual Studio

And tons more... I am short on time and I just got it yesterday. More to come.