This ColdFusion Optimization guide is a work in progress document based on research and experience.
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The countdown is on! CFUnited is just a mere 49 days away, and the excitement is building. I think everyone has great anticipation for Centaur this year--I know I do! I think the sessions are going to be absolutely great as well. I've never seen a lineup this good.
A year ago, I challenged the community to evangelize ColdFusion and convert new developers from other technologies. It was part of a blog post that examined and rebuffed several common arguments that often arise within the community as to why ColdFusion is not more popular. Most of those arguments focus on what people think Adobe should do to make ColdFusion more popular. A lot has happened in the last year since that blog post so I want to revisit the arguments and see where we stand today.
Coldfusion Components also known as CFC's. A lot of people program Coldfusion and not use CFC's have; it's too hard to learn! It's too hard to learn?? No way!!
It's very easy to learn. It's just an other way of thinking than you're used to. You must see CFC's as building blocks. By constructing "building blocks" you're code is much cleaner and far more reusable, thus quicker to build your application. Most (if not every) ColdFusion Developer knows UDF's (User Defined Functions) and Custom Tags.When trying to judge expected behavior from potentially problematic behavior, looking at memory behavior often is a place ColdFusion Administrators will start.
Even though the standard amount of RAM continues to increase, a close examination of an application's use of system memory remains a critical part of the Q&A process.
In a nutshell, ColdFusion provides components that enable the creation of dynamic, database-powered Web applications. By "Web applications," I mean software applications and services built with Web technologies -- both public Internet and intranet software. Examples of potential ColdFusion Applications on the intranet in particular include business process automation, training, content management, and bulletin board conferencing. On the Internet, ColdFusion can play a role in ecommerce sites just to name one example.




