"" Either Google is genuinely trying to appeal to freetard developers as the superior platform or - and this one is much more probable - Google has absolutely no cohesive direction, and a couple of engineers were working on a neat project that looks an awful lot like a PhD thesis and wanted to open source it to swing their dicks around.""
- Adrock
"You wouldn't know by reading Digg, but there are _a lot_ more CF developers then even RoR. ColdFusion is going through a bit of a renaissance right now. ColdFusion 8 was an incredibly strong release and it's really tied in well with Flex and AJAX. It only appears stagnant to those who aren't looking. Viva ColdFusion!"
- Adrock
"Dugg down for being completely inaccurate..... Well, it's very clear you are completely ignorant on the subject. For the record, ColdFusion has evolved incredibly since it's launch in 1995. It was completely re-built in 2001 as a J2EE application and today bolsters over a half-million developers worldwide (that even more than Ruby.... and ColdFusion isn't free!) * It’s slower then other languages This is completely wrong. ColdFusion compiles to native Java byte code and is quite fast. It also scales effortlessly and powers some of the largest sites in the world. ColdFusion is nothing more than a J2EE applcation, so it's _speed_ is equivalent to the app serer its deployed on (WebSpehere, OracleAS, WebLogic, JBoss, etc). * It uses markup tags similar to html for server side programming ColdFusion offers a tag based syntax as well as a script based syntax. As the very first web application server on the market, ColdFusion was the base for ASP, JSP and PHP. * Doing basic OOP is hard, MVC..."
- Adrock
"I'm not sure how you can compare an off-the-shelf CMS to a development platform. From your post, you seem to be implying that you wrote a crappy CMS and blamed ColdFusion for the short comings."
- Adrock
"Well... I'm a Fox New viewer _and_ a DIGG reader. So by process of association (and liberally biased statements), you are all just as dumb. Welcome to the social!"
- Adrock
"Buried. I was playing throughout that time and there were 100k+ gamers online. Citing a blog post as fact is never a good idea. Is this a news site? or a gossip corner?"
- Adrock