Ben Forta

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August 2, 2004

Defending ColdFusion Against ...

Last week I posted an entry entitled "Defending ColdFusion Against Java", and several of you e-mailed me to ask my thoughts on ASP and ASP.NET. I just posted three more entries in this series, and so that they are all linked, here are the URL's: Java:...

August 2, 2004

Defending ColdFusion Against PHP

PHP is not one that comes up often, there is not a significant overlap between PHP developers and ColdFusion developers. But, in the interests of presenting the complete story, here is what you need to know. PHP is also script based, pages contain code which are processed by the PHP engine. The PHP...

August 2, 2004

Defending ColdFusion Against ASP.NET

Comparing ASP.NET to ColdFusion is difficult. Actually, it is not just difficult, it is simply incorrect, and not an apples-to-apples comparison. In order to defend ColdFusion against a "we are moving to ASP.NET" claim, you (and whoever is involved in the decision making) needs to take a big step...

August 2, 2004

Defending ColdFusion Against ASP

Microsoft ASP has been an important player in web application scripting since, well, since a year or so after the introduction of ColdFusion. From an application development process viewpoint, ColdFusion and ASP are not that different. Both are script based, both are very page centric, both embed...

August 1, 2004

The Wharton School, Version 10

About 9 months ago, I blogged an entry about The Wharton School portal being powered by ColdFusion (see http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=e&entry=925). In that time, the folks at Wharton have been busy, and CFDJ is reporting that they just rolled out the 10th version of the site, looking...

July 31, 2004

Replacing CFML Tags With Your Own

Spike Milligan has posted a blog entry on how to replace CF tag processing with your own functionality. Obviously, this is a dangerous thing to do (not that I would not do it myself). But having said that, this makes for interesting reading. See...

July 29, 2004

Visiting Japan and Europe

We are finalizing details of my Blackstone trips to Europe and Japan, and I'll post more details as soon as I have them. For now, these dates are planned: Tokyo, Japan: August 23rd-25th Amsterdam, Netherlands: September 6th Milan, Italy: September 7th Cologne, Germany: September 8th I'll be...

July 29, 2004

Defending ColdFusion Against Java

This seems to be coming up more and more frequently, ColdFusion developers being asked to defend ColdFusion against a planned move to Java and J2EE. I now have three such messages in my inbox, and so I thought it worthwhile to share my response to this one. For starters, any suggestion of "we need...

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