Yeh, you get a load of "great" new features and get to blow 'the man' to the tune of US$ 1,299! Forget that crap. I haven't paid for web design tools or frameworks since I bought DWMX in 2002 and I don't ever intend to again.
Translated: I wear a tin foil hat to bed, and I believe there are aliens hiding in my cereal. Also any time people post opposing view points, they must be employees/marketing people of a company spending their time on digg all day to bring masses of uninformed morons to a multi billion dollar corporation to make a quick buck.
At perhaps seeming like a traitor to my own (previous) comments -- CF 8 is a REAL improvement! So much so in-fact, I'm moving my site off PHP to CF8. The performance gains are just off the hook. My comments hold true however, for CF versions 6.x - 7.x -- those were just horrible. The rewrite of 8 is glorious and the new super fast DB connectors.... when you think about price $1200 bucks -- well, that equates to about 15 - 20 hours of my time -- I can write a CF app much faster due to the CF Tag syntax than I can writing Classes in PHP [15-20 hours of coding time is nothing]. CF may not be a "real" computer language, however neither is PHP (really.) CF is more of a Tag Parser than scripting language -- and as such affords one much faster times when writing backends, and in this release, much faster performance (when compared to PHP anyways) I'm writing this after testing CF 8. Its about Productivity, Performance, Stability and Security -- how fast can I create a backened, how well will it perform, is it stable and is it secure. All these things weigh-in when I create a site -- I can easily spend 15-20 hours writing some custom classes or functionality in PHP and it will be beautiful, or I can do the same thing in CF in about 1 to 2 hours... it then becomes cheap @ $1200.
suppaibegJul 31, 2007
Looks like they already do, were you on the cf8 beta? Link came in the email today, 2 free months and setup fee waived.
agamouschildJul 31, 2007
CF ftw.. Development time in hours, not days or weeks...
svpirateJul 31, 2007
Yeh, you get a load of "great" new features and get to blow 'the man' to the tune of US$ 1,299! Forget that crap. I haven't paid for web design tools or frameworks since I bought DWMX in 2002 and I don't ever intend to again.
cjordanJul 31, 2007
MySpace is written almost completely in CF (meaning BlueDragon), it's just compiled down into .Net.
kookiekrookAug 1, 2007
Translated: I wear a tin foil hat to bed, and I believe there are aliens hiding in my cereal. Also any time people post opposing view points, they must be employees/marketing people of a company spending their time on digg all day to bring masses of uninformed morons to a multi billion dollar corporation to make a quick buck.
ajpianoAug 3, 2007
that was the first thing i thought. that he looked like bob saget, not that i have a fetish for dying languages.
jscnetJan 14, 2008
At perhaps seeming like a traitor to my own (previous) comments -- CF 8 is a REAL improvement! So much so in-fact, I'm moving my site off PHP to CF8. The performance gains are just off the hook. My comments hold true however, for CF versions 6.x - 7.x -- those were just horrible. The rewrite of 8 is glorious and the new super fast DB connectors.... when you think about price $1200 bucks -- well, that equates to about 15 - 20 hours of my time -- I can write a CF app much faster due to the CF Tag syntax than I can writing Classes in PHP [15-20 hours of coding time is nothing]. CF may not be a "real" computer language, however neither is PHP (really.) CF is more of a Tag Parser than scripting language -- and as such affords one much faster times when writing backends, and in this release, much faster performance (when compared to PHP anyways) I'm writing this after testing CF 8. Its about Productivity, Performance, Stability and Security -- how fast can I create a backened, how well will it perform, is it stable and is it secure. All these things weigh-in when I create a site -- I can easily spend 15-20 hours writing some custom classes or functionality in PHP and it will be beautiful, or I can do the same thing in CF in about 1 to 2 hours... it then becomes cheap @ $1200.
bogdanpJul 12, 2008
And what's that prove? That CF is less used than PHP? I think so.