ColdFusion has to be the most inefficient web scripting language in the world. Sure, applications can be developed quickly in CFML, but installing and maintaining ColdFusion MX is a nightmare. I have installed it on at least 5 computers, now, including several versions of Windows and Linux, and have never yet seen it install smoothly. […]
If any ColdFusion MX wonks read this, I need help. I have a CFMX 7.0 install on Fedora Core 2 and keep getting errors. I think they’re related to some packet filtering problems, but don’t know how to fix it in FC2. Here’s the summary: I finally got CFMX and Apache connected, properly, but any
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I’m picking up my new MINI, tomorrow! I spent the weekend at a cousin’s wedding, hence the gap in posts. This week should be better. In other news, I got a new Palm LifeDrive, Friday; it is one cool peice of gadgetry. Given my Palm-dependent lifestyle and the age and memory capacity of my old
I love free and open source software. In fact, I use open source software for database management, blogging, blog reading, web browsing, and doing dozens of other daily tasks. I love Linux, MySQL, PHP, and Firefox, in particular. Ocassionally, I even contribute some code – a script or function, usually – to the world, myself, without any licensing, whatsoever. I have a real problem with the core philosophy of the GNU project and Free Software Foundation, however, that software should not have owners and should always be “free” (in the sense that source code should always be available and users should always have the right to modify and redistribute it).
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Java Server Pages are evil, particularly when used for simple websites. I say this because a client has a 7-page site, that was developed in JSP. Why? JSP is the only language the developer knew. Of course, said developer knows nothing about installing/deploying/running JSP webapps. Geez.