08.12.07

Coldfusion 8 Upgrade

Posted in ColdFusion at 2:02 pm by Nate Smith

Coldfusion 8 is out and it has a lot of nice improvements that make it very attractive, a lot of improvements with PDF management, improved graphics handling, and some hooks into Microsoft Exchange.

I followed the experience from here: http://www.thedigitalmediadude.com/2007/07/31/upgrading-to-coldfusion-8-from-coldfusion-mx-7/trackback/. Everything went about as described.

We will see next week if any issues pop up in the code.  The things I tested so far seem to work OK.

If you aren’t familiar with ColdFusion, it is application server software that now comes from Adobe, formerly from macromedia, and prior to that Allaire.  It is very comparable to Php, but it is not free.  I got involved with Coldfusion before Php had come far enought to be as practical as it is today.  I keep using ColdFusion because it works so well - an analogy would be ColdFusion is to Php what Mac OS is to Linux.  It may not do everything, but “it just works”.