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Cold Fusion Back From The Dead
misterfusion writes "Looks like the IEEE is warming up to cold fusion with the latest story "Cold Fusion Back from the Dead". This has been a good year for this field with several leading science journals (Physics Today, MIT Technology Review, etc) contributing stories. Things are warming up and if science Research & Development funding can be stimulated with a positive DoE report (due soon), it might be an interesting rebirth."
I use Cold Fusion every day. I like it a lot.
Cold Fusion was supposed to drown under the ASP tidal wave. Then PHP was the obvious answer. Both products are free, and that was always cited as the reason that Cold Fusion would die.
CF has reach a point of decline- which is okay- but it's not dead.
I am willing to challenge anyone out there- if we are both given the same criteria for building a dynamic site- I'll use Cold Fusion, you can use PHP, ASP, JSP, whatever. I'll have my site done first. It will be secure, scalable, fast, and easily maintained. I've built dozens and dozens of sites that get moderate to heavy use (depending on your point of reference...) and Cold Fusion has never been an impediment, frequently it was the saving grace- allowing the project to get done on-time.
People love to bash CF, because it is not the language du jour. It costs money- some people don't like that. It USED to be that a lot of crappy little projects were started in Cold Fusion, because it was easy- and any yokel could squeeze working code out of their ass- whether or not it was good. (That's how I started) But now most of the 'beginner' projects are done in ASP or PHP- because they are free, and can be created 'on the sly' without having to request $800-$1,500 of server software.
Now I spend about 25% of my time converting someone's crap-ass (poorly done) PHP projects over to Cold Fusion once the people in charge find out that it's insecure, crash-prone and impossible to build on to. Strangely, the time has come that the Cold Fusion programmers are the ones with more experience (because it is not the language du jour, newbies are no longer jumping on the bandwagon) and the projects are put together in a more mature manner.
Just as before, when Cold Fusion's biggest problem was that any jackass could use it- now I see the same thing happening to PHP. Jackasses covertly set it up on their small department webserver...and then I get paid to clean up their mess.
Oh well- it's a job!
No reason to lie.
My point was that CF is a good technology. The previous perception was that it was 'teh ghey' (as the above poster told us). This was due mainly to the number of crappy coders who were using it- not a reflection of the language/platform (whatever you want to call it) itself.
It has been a good product for a long time- but the good parts were overshadowed by some of the crappy code people were putting together. Now it has less crappy code, and this is actually a good thing.
No reason to lie.