Dec 19, 2018
Brian Cain talks about “ColdFusion vs PHP vs Java vs .Net (which is a better friend)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.
Show notes
- Speed of development
- Different from other languages
- Not constrained to a particular framework or dev methodology (eg what Microsoft or Java)
- RAD
- “Time of thought to launch” is way faster with CF
- CF 10 hours
- .Net weeks, especially for flexible changes
- PHP days Wild West too much freedom but not support OO as well as CF
- Java weeks Good on OO but much heavier weigh dev process
- Pickier coding
- Nimble response to customer requests and market changes
- How friendly to the developer
- Least .Net and Java. Need a lot of computer science /
“gearhead” developers to use well
- Not a dev friendly
- Middle PHP - open source is good
- CFML - tag based is easy to get started, cfscript and OO are
powerful to move forward with
- Avoid over engineering
- Strong Typing
- Least .Net and Java. Need a lot of computer science /
“gearhead” developers to use well
- Hiring
- Post programming jobs vs CF job
- Easy to train developers from languages in 1-2 weeks
- Learn the syntax
- CF is forgiving about how you code
- Hackathon comparison
- Roadmap
- Oracle Java changes
- WP (WordPress) or Drupal developers vs pure PHP
- DNN (Dot net Nuke) sites vs .Net
- .Net roadmap
- PHP roadmap
- Faster maintenance
- Good CFML saves on refracting later
- CFQueryParam
- Object reuse
- Java yes
- PHP not built in
- .Net yes
- CF yes
- Schools and universities
- What is a good developer
- Solve problems and head off future problems due to maintenance and scalability
- Free Adobe curriculum and CF licenses for learning
- What is a good developer
- Third party add-ons
- PDF generation
- What is the attraction of .Net, PHP or Java?
- Security
- Legacy
- The two edged sword of full backward compatibility
- Why are you proud to use CF?
- WWIT to make CF more alive this year?
- Publicity from organization eg NASA CF helps get us to Mars
- What did you enjoy at CF Summit?
Mentioned in this episode
- Learn CF in a week
- Free Adobe curriculum and CF licenses for learning
- Kishore Balakrishnan Email kishore (at) adobe.com
- https://teratech.com/modernization-of-adobe-coldfusion-helped-improving-security-deployment-and-other-important-aspects/
Bio
Brian has been developing for 20 years, 16 of them in ColdFusion. Dev Team manager for Careers division of Farms.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianccain/
