Happy 13th Birthday ColdFusion!

July 9, 2008 ·

Yes, ColdFusion officially turns 13 years old today! I think a quick trip down memory lane is in order. How many of these logos do you remember?

And if you are really in the mood, check out this Allaire homepage circa 1997 (courtesy of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine)! Wow, Fuel Packs available, Forums 2.0 released, HomeSite 2 is a CNET finalist, my 1st book on Amazon's top 10 ... fun stuff! ;-)

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Yves July 10, 2008

Wow.. man time flies! I remember like yesterday the 10th birthday... And I remember learning ColdFusion 4 and then learning Fusebox on CF 4.5.. Amazing. Happy Birthday ColdFusion!!! ;-)

Steven Erat July 10, 2008

Watch the video of ColdFusion's 10th birthday party event held in the Newton, MA office, July 13 2005. The founders of ColdFusion, which was almost known as Prometheus or Horizon, recant the early days of Allaire Corporation. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9025154931505227826 Annotation for the video here: http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/index.cfm/2005/7/14/ColdFusion10thParty

Brad Wood July 10, 2008

Bring back the bolt. hee hee @Todd, the arena football site appears to be running Apache Tomcat/5.0.27 but that's about all I can figure out. They appear to have mappings for .jsp and .dbml, but not .cfm. My company owns an AFL team (KC Brigade) and we manage the Brigades site. I'll ask my webmaster if he knows what the leagueâ€™s site is written in.

Srinivas July 10, 2008

Its good see old logos on this occasion. Thanks ben.

Sam Farmer July 10, 2008

Happy Birthday. Still love the lightening bolt logos though the current Adobe logo is really growing on me.

Sid Wing July 10, 2008

Happy Birthday, CF! I remember all the logos - I feel old now {grin}

Joshua Cyr July 10, 2008

You can't see it but I am doing a little dance for ColdFusion right now. In other news, the captcha image for me is 'aol' today. lol

Jim Priest July 10, 2008

Ah - I still need to start a "Bring Back The Bolt" campaign... Maybe for CF 10?? That original logo is EXACTLY how I felt when I wrote my first CFQuery/CFOutout and pulled that data back from the database!!! Bring Back The Bolt! Jim

todd sharp July 10, 2008

Hey Ben - A bit unrelated, but the nostalgia here reminded me of a question I've been meaning to ask. Do you have any clue if this site -->http://www.arenafootball.com/HomePage.dbml is truly using THE 'dbml' or is there another variant/technology that I'm unaware of?

Marjune July 10, 2008

happy birthday Coldfusion :) more more bday to come

Gary Fenton July 10, 2008

I think the original logo was the best. It illustrated lots of power easily contained in your hand. How about bringing it back for CF9, but in a style that compliments the current "cf" logo? Happy Birthday, ColdFusion. Don't get too drunk at your party because you've got 1000's of websites to serve! ;-)

Vijayakumar July 10, 2008

Happy Birthday..... :)

kotta July 10, 2008

Hi Coldfusion, Happy Birthday....................... Kotta Chettai.

2020Media July 10, 2008

That takes me back. We started hosting Coldfusion on version 4. It's certainly changed a lot since those days (and I don't mean always in a good way if you know what I mean..)

Digital Mesh July 10, 2008

Dear Cold Fusion Happy B'day!!!!

Gary Gilbert July 10, 2008

I remember all of the logos but actually only worked with CF since 4.0. Many Happy returns CF, and I look forward to many more years of innovation!

Shimju David July 10, 2008

Dear ColdFusion, Many many happy returns of the day. Emax Software Team

A viewer July 10, 2008

Happy Birthday

Clint July 11, 2008

Isn't 13 an unlucky number? Luckily (LOL) I don't believe in stuperstitions. Happy 13th CF!!! Now meet the real coldfusion: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5133699167382776340&q=&hl=en

Cameron Childress July 12, 2008

...and 10 years since the first CF conference, Held July 24th - July 26th 1998 in Ft Collins Colorado. Some of the materials from that conference (and the cover of the first CFDJ) here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cameronc/sets/72157594241477610/

Abhijeet July 12, 2008

There should be a logo CF13 for the birthday bash. Clint, 13 shall remain lucky for CF though :) Abhijeet http://www.lifeiscolourful.com

Brad Wood July 15, 2008

Ok, I promised I would look into the dbml thing that Todd brought up. I found out that a company named JumpTV has made a whole slew of sports related sites (including the Arena Football League site), and they ALL use the .dbml extension. After a few E-mails to random people I go a reply back. Apparently they use a language called DBRocket. Yeah, I've never heard of it and Google brings back very little on it. Anyone know anything about DBRocket?

diabetes February 11, 2009

Happy belated CF! Too bad i'm late for party... :) Anyways enjoyed the videos and photos.. thanks for posting!

anonymousguy May 5, 2009

There is no use learning DBML, as it is a proprietary language only used by the company that owns it. And you dont want to work for them, trust me.

James Tryon July 30, 2009

2 is the number of logos i can remember. I started with cf 5 then worked my way to cf 7 but i still rather not use cf at all. hahahah

DBMLDEV July 30, 2009

William Messerschmitt is right.

William Messerschmitt July 30, 2009

I don't know about your "experience", cory, but mine was all smooth sailing. I guess, not everyone can handle it's awesomeness...

DBMLDEV July 30, 2009

I <3 DBML, you should all learn it and use it. There are so few of us now...

DBMLIsGod July 30, 2009

DBRocket is quite possibly the best language ever written. It will one day become the standard

Cory Lashway July 30, 2009

lol i know from personal experience dude =x

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