Brian Cain talks about “ColdFusion vs PHP vs Java vs .Net (which is a better friend)” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlxeFjG5LDM&rel=0

Show notes

Speed of development

Different from other languages

Not constrained to a particular framework or dev methodology (eg what Microsoft or Java)

RAD

“Time of thought to launch” is way faster with CF

CF 10 hours

.Net weeks, especially for flexible changes

PHP days Wild West too much freedom but not support OO as well as CF

Java weeks Good on OO but much heavier weigh dev process

Pickier coding

Nimble response to customer requests and market changes

How friendly to the developer

Least .Net and Java. Need a lot of computer science / “gearhead” developers to use well

Not a dev friendly

Middle PHP - open source is good

CFML - tag based is easy to get started, cfscript and OO are powerful to move forward with

Avoid over engineering

Strong Typing

Hiring

Post programming jobs vs CF job

Easy to train developers from languages in 1-2 weeks

Learn the syntax

CF is forgiving about how you code

Hackathon comparison

Roadmap

Oracle Java changes

WP (WordPress) or Drupal developers vs pure PHP

DNN (Dot net Nuke) sites vs .Net

.Net roadmap

PHP roadmap

Faster maintenance

Good CFML saves on refracting later

CFQueryParam

Object reuse

Java yes

PHP not built in

.Net yes

CF yes

Schools and universities

What is a good developer

Solve problems and head off future problems due to maintenance and scalability

Free Adobe curriculum and CF licenses for learning

Third party add-ons

PDF generation

What is the attraction of .Net, PHP or Java?

Security

Legacy

The two edged sword of full backward compatibility

Why are you proud to use CF?

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

Publicity from organization eg NASA CF helps get us to Mars

What did you enjoy at CF Summit?

Mentioned in this episode

Learn CF in a week

Free Adobe curriculum and CF licenses for learning

Kishore Balakrishnan Email kishore (at) adobe.com

Article - Modernization of Adobe ColdFusion (More Secure Than Ever)

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Bio

Brian Cain

Brian has been developing for 20 years, 16 of them in ColdFusion. Dev Team manager for Careers division of Farms.com

Links

LinkedIn

Interview transcript

Michaela Light 0:00

Welcome back to the show. I'm here with Brian Cain. And we're gonna be talking about cold fusion versus PHP versus Java versus.net. It's like a super boxing kind of for way thing. And we're asking, which is your better friend as a developer, and we'll be looking at several topics, their speed of development, object orientation, how many add ons there are, and that L Word legacy development platforms. So we might even talk about security features for platforms. And if you don't know, Brian, you've probably seen him at some of the confusion conferences around he's been in the cold fusion world decades, and he's been developing for 20 years, been doing cold fusion for 16 years. And he's the deputy manager for careers division of bombs calm. So welcome. Brian

Brian Cain 0:50

Hi, Thanks for having me.

Michaela Light 0:52

Yeah, so let's just start off with speed of development. Because, you know, that's often critical in organizations these days, how do these four languages compare? Because you've programmed in all of them, right?

Brian Cain 1:06

I yeah, I have it as far as the, the speed of development, you know,

ColdFusion is, has always been the by far the fastest and easiest one to use for me, in fact, that the last day of summer, one of the keynote speakers

kind of threw out a buzz phrase that really stuck with me, but he talked about time of thought to launch. So it was the idea of, okay,