http://wikipedlla.com/coldspring_what_a_difference_it_39_s_made > This won't come as a surprise to those of you who have been building > sites > using Coldspring for a while, but I was VERY pleasantly > surprised at the > performance improvement when I launched my first > all-Coldspring site > conversion today. > I've been using Coldspring for a while now, but never > had the > opportunity to completely rebuild a site, or build one from > scratch, > where all my components were managed by Coldspring - until now. > > I have just completed rebuilding Bluegrass Australia, > > (http://bluegrass.org.au) one of my pro-bono sites, including the > > latest version CMS of my own design and build. I have > taken the > opportunity to get rid of all the createObject() functions and > replace > them with calls to the Coldspring beanfactory. I've also got > rid of > the CFCFactory I had built a year or so back, and replaced that > too, > with calls to the Coldspring beanfactory. > This is, of course, > exactly the way Coldspring is supposed to be used. > In the rebuilding > process, I spent quite a lot of time checking and > ensuring the > encapsulation of all my components, making sure the > variables > everywhere are var'd properly, and any time I found myself > typing out code > that was similar to something I already did elsewhere, > I looked for ways > to change the first code to see if it can be used > for both place. > Behold! You'd be amazed at how often the code could > be reused. > And what a difference that made when I found a need to > make a change > to the site or the CMS. > There is now almost complete separation of logic > and presentation > elements on this site, and about 80% of the code is now > generic - I > can just copy it into another site and use it. All sorts > of elements > like login and security, permissions, guestbook, contact-us, > menu > creation, page makeup etc are reusable around the site and elsewhere > > in other sites. > But the biggest change I noticed is the performance, > both in terms of > development time, and user experience. With > Coldspring managing the > caching of CFCs, I am now developing new > functionality in a fraction > of the time I did before. I no longer > have to remember how to create > an object, or what dependencies it has. > Coldspring does all that for > me. > And best of all, the pages are > delivered to the users in about half > the time they were before. The > appearance and content of the site > hasn't changed, but by golly the > response times sure have! The site > lopes along like a throroughbred > compared to the draught horse it was > before. > What a testament to the > worth of Coldspring. > Cheers > Mike Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > > 0422 985 585 > Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > AFP Webworks > Pty Ltd > http://afpwebworks.com > Full Scale ColdFusion hosting from > A$15/month >
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