ColdFusion IS awesome.
It’s monkehTime again, and another chance to win a super-sweet “ColdFusion Lives” t shirt.
To be in for a chance to win, simply add a comment to this post to tell me why ColdFusion Rocks.. what does it mean to you?
The random winner will be selected at 20:00 BST tonight and will be notified on the comments below, so stay tuned 
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Winner!
Wow! Awesome comments, all.
We all know ColdFusion kicks some serious ‘wotsit’, and it’s always refreshing to hear what the community and developers think of their beloved language.
This week there could be only one winner, and the random name out of the bag was Ryan Anklam.
Congratulations to you, Ryan. Send me your details and I’ll get your shiny new t-shirt in the post.
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25 Comments on "ColdFusion Is Awesome"
ColdFusion rocks because its the perfect development platform for a developer to grow with. The learning curve to get started is very low and the ceiling is only as high as a developer can take it. From tag based procedural code to OO applications built on enterprise level frameworks ColdFusion will do it all.
In addition to that the community surrounding the CFML language is by far one of the best out there. Fellow CF developers are always willing to share their code and help answer questions.
ColdFusion rocks ’cause it makes my life so easy I can piss off down the pub early
ColdFusion makes it so easy to do forms+validation+db CRUD that we could turn a student who hadn’t programmed at all before into a veritiable machine at turning out code and projects used by audiences all over our university campus. We’ve also used it to do awesome slicing, dicing, and mashing of data sources and XML feeds to create a very nice campus map and smart classroom map.
Coldfusion rocks because it’s really easy to pick up for newbies using CFML. Choice of engines to run on with Adobe CF and the free open source Railo. Good performance and a central admin to the application server. Faster development…
Oh and it usually gives me something to blog about
Even a monkeh can use it
Coldfusion rock, because it’s coldfusion… Easy to pick up, great support from a huge community, great online documentation. And what other community can boast their very own, jedi master, marty mcfly, the terminator plus many more stars
It. Just. Works.
Chuck Norris uses ColdFusion – nuff said!
ColdFusion: all the power and flexibility of Java, all the ease of … breathing.
Because onMissingMethod(..) let’s me throw “I need pie” exceptions.
Because it allows me to work more efficiently leaving more time in the day for beer.
ColdFusion rocks because it is somewhat easy to pick up. I am still at a newbie status, but have been picking up more and more everyday. I love how it lets me build dynamic pages without a hassle. I just picked up all three CFWACK books so that I can build on my current knowledge. I can’t wait to conitnue learning more about CF. The CF community is great as well. All of the CF developers that I have had the pleasure of interacting with have been very helpful. ColdFusion Rocks!!
ColdFusion because rocks because help me with the KISS principle (Keep it simple, Stupid).
It just absolutely rocks! I love the fact that I can easily work with MVC sites that just WORK! I have used PHP, and other programming languages. Quite frankly other languages are not nearly as intuitive. Love its simplicity but advanced functionality!
ColdFusion is awesome because you can answer the question “What do I do after the user submits the form?”
Community! Community! Community!
Rapid Development + Great Community = ColdFusion Awesomeness
on the first day Tim created HTML and he saw that it was good
on the second day Jeremy created CFML and he saw that it was better
on the the third day we saw CFML and knew we could have the rest of the week off
I need to query a database?
SELECT whatYouWant FROM…
And I have the results.
I need to print it to a PDF?
…
And I have a PDF with the query results.
A few lines, and it is possible to create a mature application. *That* is the strength of ColdFusion, and *that* is why it is so, or should be so attractive, for business.
Why ColdFusion? Why hard when it can be easy?
Coldfusion is great because of it’s ease of use and power. You can write easily in 4 lines of Coldfusion what it would take 50 lines to write in PHP. It plays well with SQL, offers a great community of intelligent and helpful coders, plays well with flash, eats and parses XML like buttah and is very stream lined.
I love Coldfusion – I get very sad whenever a client wants a straight HTML site or god forbid something in PHP.
Congrats @Ryan
congrats Ryan!
I am trying to extract text from a pdf document using ColdFusion. But I need to invoke this as a web service from my PHP code.
I am able to use “cfpdf” tag with “extracttext” but as I said I need to run this from PHP. But the “http://localhost/CFIDE/services/pdf.cfc?wsdl” WSDL has “extractpages” and it does not have “extracttext”.
So is it possible to somehow invoke CF as a webservice from PHP and use it to extract text from a pdf document?
@Rajeev – thank you for your comment/question.
I’ve published a new post on this topic which I hope will help: http://www.mattgifford.co.uk/extending-the-coldfusion-service-layer/