ray.camdenfamily.com — Adobe released a public testing version of the newest release of their ColdFusion product. Version 8 includes numerous new features, including built in server monitoring, debugging, and loads of new functions and tags.
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damondogMay 30, 2007
There are more Honda Civics than Ferraris too... which would you rather drive? I don't care what's popular, I care what works best FOR ME.Dying is more popular than becoming a millionaire... which are you looking forward to?
ferric84May 30, 2007
zirconx: ditto.
trendecideMay 30, 2007
You didn't break any rules Ray... we love you. :)
cbartlettMay 30, 2007
The reason that whole validation technique stinks is that it mixes your business logic (what kind of data is allowed) with the presentation logic. What happens when you want to write another view into the same data? Or what happens if you need to write a command line tool to import data? Your validation is no where to be found.Not so with Rails. In your model:validates_presence_of :first_name, :last_namevalidates_length_of :password, :minimum => 8, :maximum => 20... and that applies everywhere the data is used.
nickel4242May 31, 2007
@cbartlett - there are multiple MVC frameworks for CF just as Rails is a framework for Ruby. To discount CF as some sort of dead language based on the number of sites running on it, the number of sales, etc, etc is silly. As someone above mentioned, its like calling Apple hardware a dying breed simply because it has low market share.The CF developers that know and use it day to day know the benefits it brings. If you like PHP or ASP go ahead and use it. If it works best for you that is great. I don't particularly like using them since CF does many things, in my opinion, much easier and faster than doing the same thing in PHP or ASP, so I choose CF. To each his own, and as long as your client is happy or your site functions what is the difference. Give CF a spin and if you don't see benefits or cannot justify the cost vs savings in development time, go back to PHP or ASP, JSP, Ruby, whatever.
mrnateMay 31, 2007
@cbartlett,dyogenez and nickel4242 are both right - compare Ruby to ColdFusion, compare Rails to other frameworks in the CF world, such as reactor and model-glue. There's no 1 to 1 comparison because Rails just doesn't exist for CF, but if you combine a few existing things, you can get as close as you may ever want or need to get, and you'd get there with less code.
iamdexterAug 13, 2007
Adobe all the way, its goood that they bought Macromedia.<a class="user" href="http://www.naturalizer-shoes.org/">http://www.naturalizer-shoes.org/</a>