ColdFusion Thoughts from a Longtime PHP developer

Serge Jespers is a colleague of mine on the Platform Evangelism team. He’s a longtime PHP developer and has recently dipped his toes into the ColdFusion waters. He recently developed the MAX widget that’s been going around. In fact, he used ColdFusion to power it. Here are his thoughts on the matter:

…I’m fairly new to ColdFusion. I actually first touched CF about a year a go on the On AIR Train Tour through Europe. That was the first time I played around with CF after oh… some 10 years of working with PHP. I looked at CF a few years ago and never really took another serious look at it. I’m sure there are many of you out there in the same situation and I would like to invite you to take another look at ColdFusion. CF has changed and matured a lot since the early days and is just a breeze to work with. With a minimum amount of code, I was able to rapidly code my database calls for the widget. Another cool thing about ColdFusion is that once you write your database code, you can use it in a number of different ways. You can directly call the methods using Flash Remoting in your Flex application, call it as a webservice from a mobile Flash application and/or call it from an HTML page without changing anything in the original code. I surely was pretty impressed when I saw that the first time. If you’re a long time PHP user and want to know more about ColdFusion, I’d like to invite you to my session at MAX. I’m going to talk about the difference and similarities between PHP and CF and also talk about what CF can do right out of the box….

If you want to find out more about his experience with the widget, check out the rest of the article.