David,

I'm sorry I had only given you an enterprise resource (although you can run BlueDragon with localhost access only for free). Here is a fantastic community resource, that will allow you to really stress test that CF app: http://www.railo-technologies.com/en/index.cfm?treeID=149
Some Javaheads like me think that this is even better than BlueDragon.

Although I'm still a huge fan of CF8, as it has introduced inherent PHP and Ruby support: http://corfield.org/blog/index.cfm/do/blog.entry/entry/ColdFusion_8_running_PHP

-Ed


David Mintz wrote:
How about the non-free closed-sourcedness, or is it? I prefer something I can download and run on my own pc if I please -- IOW I'd like to be able to run a replica of the live CF site without paying anyone any money. The article on wikipedia said you could "theoretically" run your CF app with an app server like Tomcat. With something like MySQL/PHP you can way more than "theoretically" run a copy of your production site on your own box, both technically and legally.

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Webmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:


    Dave,

    I work with Coldfusion day-in and day-out. It is a fantastic
    language that can get a lot of things done quickly. It's powerful,
    versatile and has an easy-enough learning curve. Don't listen to
    anyone who just says 'PHP is better', or, 'If you're starting from
    scratch, start with PHP', any evaluation to that degree is coming
    from someone who has little to no experience with C vs. Java. (Yes
    originally CF was written in C, but in much wisdom they moved to
    Java).

    I am very well versed in CF and would be more than happy to answer
    any of your questions off list David.

    -Ed
    [EMAIL PROTECTED]



        Flame me for starting this, I know it might get religious.
        But:  an organization of which I am a member is evaluating
        proposals to rebuild its website. One of those proposals is
        from some folks who apparently are partial to ColdFusion. All
        I know about CF is what I just picked up from skimming
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColdFusion. Recognizing my bias
        towards languages that I speak, I try to keep an open mind. I
        am interested in hearing what you guys think about CF. I know
        I can expect a PHPish bias in this forum but I also know there
        are a lot of independent-minded, non-dogmatic, clear-headed,
        breath-takingly wise and knowledgeable... have I flattered you
        enough yet?

-- David Mintz
        http://davidmintz.org/


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