Pud just sold one of his companies - TinyLetter - to MailChimp: http://blog.mailchimp.com/mailchimp-acquires-tinyletter/
TinyLetter was built on the same CFML stack and as a side note to that MailChimp is OK with being a bit weird themselves: http://blog.mailchimp.com/ewww-you-use-php/ Pud's coment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2947822 Glad to see a bit of validation for CFML in the startup scene. On 9/8/11 1:29 PM, Dave Watts wrote: >> Passing this along as an FYI for fun. Came across this on the High >> Scalability blog. Talks about what the >> creator of F'edCompany uses for his backend (hint - uses CFML): >> >> http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/8/31/pud-is-the-anti-stack-windows-cfml-dropbox-xeround-jungledis.html > The article is kind of interesting, in that it really says bad things > about his technology choices, yet in the end acknowledges that they're > working fine for him. > >> His Twitter feed points out something I'd never heard before. If you go >> here, you'll see a CF error message: >> >> http://investor.apple.com/Application.cfc > We can do better than that: > > http://investor.apple.com/stockquote.cfm > > ... and, it's running on IIS 6! > > Server:Microsoft-IIS/6.0 > X-Powered-By:ASP.NET > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > http://training.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on > GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347350 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
