Make this the last year someone doesn't know what ColdFusion is!
After the recent trouble I had with The People's Toolbox, I'm going to keep an eye out for any and every chance possible to help spread the gospel of ColdFusion.
Rey Bango has released GotCFM?com - a site that aggregates and lists out ColdFusion powered web sites.
But it needs you. Please go and submit all of your ColdFusion powered web sites to help this list grow. Consider it a mission. Consider it a crusade. Just spread the word and add your sites.
Comments
# Posted By Nick Tong
| 2/27/07 8:32 AM
# Posted By Kyle Hayes
| 2/27/07 9:06 AM
Thanks, Ray for posting this. We all need to let Ben Forta know he's not the only one evangelizing CF. I tell every developer I know and have converted quite a few.
# Posted By Jeremy Prevost
| 2/27/07 10:28 AM
http://www.gotcfm.com/resources.cfm
Rey...
lol :P
from the article: "When MySpace reached 9 million accounts, in early 2005, it began deploying new Web software written in Microsoft's C# programming language and running under ASP.NET. C# is the latest in a long line of derivatives of the C programming language, including C++ and Java, and was created to dovetail with the Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft's model architecture for software components and distributed computing. ASP.NET, which evolved from the earlier Active Server Pages technology for Web site scripting, is Microsoft's current Web site programming environment.
Almost immediately, MySpace saw that the ASP.NET programs ran much more efficiently, consuming a smaller share of the processor power on each server to perform the same tasks as a comparable ColdFusion program. According to CTO Whitcomb, 150 servers running the new code were able to do the same work that had previously required 246. Benedetto says another reason for the performance improvement may have been that in the process of changing software platforms and rewriting code in a new language, Web site programmers reexamined every function for ways it could be streamlined.
Eventually, MySpace began a wholesale migration to ASP.NET. The remaining ColdFusion code was adapted to run on ASP.NET rather than on a Cold-Fusion server, using BlueDragon.NET, a product from New Atlanta Communications of Alpharetta, Ga., that automatically recompiles ColdFusion code for the Microsoft environment."
# Posted By Denis The SQL menace
| 2/27/07 1:04 PM
# Posted By Raymond Camden
| 2/27/07 1:22 PM
What argument does Adobe have to support that this is false?
# Posted By Kyle Hayes
| 2/27/07 1:27 PM
MySpace was quoted publicly as saying their development process was to just "throw" stuff up on the boxes. It does not surprise me to hear that if a user writes bad code in language X it will need N machines, and if they then write better code in language Y the # of machines necessary will go down.
But - Rey's site shouldn't list just the well written sites. It should lie them all. ;)
# Posted By Raymond Camden
| 2/27/07 1:37 PM
woohooo 377,000,000 results!
Lets start crackin :)
# Posted By Max Leynov
| 2/27/07 10:15 PM
Due to overwhelming support (and emails) I have just added coldfusion to thePeoplesToolbox (http://www.thepeoplestoolbox.com).
I will put coldfusion in the the left navigation bar for all to see once I have 40 good links submitted. Please do not spam the system with mediocre links, I've taken a lot of time to find the highest quality sites for the other categories.
Here is the place to submit your coldfusion links...
http://www.thepeoplestoolbox.com/add_link.php
Thank you all so much for using the site, and taking the time to talk to me. I'm flattered that you think it's so important. :-)
Peace,
Taylor Cepea Hayward
Small Software Workshop
# Posted By Taylor Cepea Hayward
| 2/28/07 5:42 AM
# Posted By Sam Farmer
| 2/28/07 7:59 AM
# Posted By Lola LB
| 2/28/07 11:08 AM
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/02/27/coldf...
# Posted By Raymond Camden
| 2/28/07 11:18 AM
