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Does ColdFusion Make You More Productive?

Here's another take on the upgrade in ColdFusion pricing. The author compares CF, PHP, and .NET, and makes the claim the ColdFusion is worth the money because you're more productive in it than in comparable languages. But is that true?

Adobe Wants You To Buy ColdFusion 8 Enterprise

As you're no doubt aware, Adobe's announced the release of ColdFusion 8. What you may not have noticed, however, is the fact that Adobe has bumped the price of the Enterprise Edition from $5,999 to $7,499, and that there's an expanded list of features that are only supported in a "limited" fashion in the Standard Edition. Or not at all.

ColdFusion, and the Mac vs. Windows Problem

Before I get to the ColdFusion "expert" article, I want to discuss an article I just came across by Dale Fraser in which he says, "With that will come the most important bit of the puzzle to sell this great product, the release of pricing information." He ends with "...so I'm hopeful that Adobe will get the pricing right also and knock every one's socks of in the process."

Me too. In fact I'm VERY interesting in finding out what Adobe's strategy is in this regard, as ColdFusion has always suffered from the Mac vs. Windows problem.

Are you a "certified" ColdFusion developer?

I saw the following article on gadgetopia.com, and thought I'd include it as part of the series on being a ColdFusion "expert".

To quote Deane, "ColdFusion is so easy to use that people learn ColdFusion before they learn to program, and they often never bother to learn anything about programming in general because ColdFusion will let you do a lot without having to be a “programmer.""

Are you a ColdFusion Professional?

Previously we asked about your ColdFusion comfort zone. Now let's tackle the big question: Are you a ColdFusion Professional?

Really? Let's find out.

What's your ColdFusion "Comfort Zone"?

I read a recent post on Radical Bender that got me thinking about "professional" ColdFusion developers and their skill sets... or lack thereof.

In it, Ben was complaining about taking a ColdFusion competency test. To quote, "...the bulk of the test has to do with only the most OBSCURE parts of ColdFusion, the ones that very few people use, let alone use often. There were some things in there that in my seven years of ColdFusion experience, I’ve never used. EVER. I’ve never done JRun integration or used the Flash Remoting software or COM objects or WDDX or the Verity engine. I know OF all these things, but I’ve never had to use any of them in my life."

iPhoney: Test bed for iPhone web applicatons

If you're developing an iPhone web application or just testing your site against the iPhone, you may want to check out iPhoney. iPhoney is not an iPhone simulator but a Mac application that uses Safari and Webkit to give web developers a 320 by 480 (or 480 by 320) testbed on which to test the visual quality of their designs.

Or you can just tell your boss that he needs to buy you a real iPhone for... ah... testing purposes. It is, after all, the only way to make sure your site's 100% compatible.