Hi there,
> This isn't directed at you, just at the all CF evangelists out there. My
>philosophy is 'use the best tool out there', and lately I've found that it
>hasn't been CF.
First of all I agree with the use whats best tool, asp cf perl php java or c
etc.. I use 'em all in one way or another. I been using cf to verying
degree since v1.5 . When v3 came out, there was Nothing that would beat it
overall. (for web / db stuff ), But now there is competition , ever from
themselves in JRun / Jsp /Java
Anyway some comments
>My BIFFs with CF
>* can't set cookies and use CFLOCATION at the same time
As cflocation uses a 304 status, you
shouldn't be able to, according to the http rfc.
>* can't talk to COM objects that expect the ASP object model
Yes , annoying but you can get around it. We have been promised Better
support on this
>* can't provide unbuffered output
Can in cf5, at last , cfflush
>* can't easily extend the CFFORM functionality
Don't know never use it :-)
>We use lyris for our e-mail based mailing lists (very popular), and as
>'easy' as it is to use, we still have people who find its interface
>confusing... so I wrote an even SIMPLER interface. Guess what... I had to
>be done in ASP, because the COM object that talks with LYRIS
>expects the ASP
>COM model (yes, I could have written a wrapper.. but why?)
>
Look at iMS mail server , yummy , www.coolfusion.com
>We protect our site with SiteServer M&P, because most of the content is not
>CF based (HTML, PDF) to reduce server load (100,000 page views a
>day without
>clustering). I had to write a custom COM component to talk with the M&P
>LDAP Server, because CF's LDAP doesn't transmit GUIDs properly. That
>coupled with the fact that CF can't manage mixed case cookies... *sigh*
>
Really, never saw that, I believe CFLDAP has been improved in the cf5 beta
though. You chould right a java cfx very easily to do this, but you
shouldn't...
CreateUUID() creates a weird UUID format.
I'd be interesting in heard a little more about the security setup. Just
using the Microsoft LDAP DB or something more ? Why didn't you use the
Netscape LDAP server? .. any info :-)
>I had written a banner tool, which referenced banners as <img
>src=/banner.cfm?id=333>. The CFCONTENT tag didn't react well under high
>load conditions, often resulting in broken links. Amazing, but PHP doesn't
>suffer from that problem... and can (re)write graphics files on the fly!
>
Yes a couple of issues with this tag. I hope they will be addressed in the
new release. You would think since
>The guys at UIE tips have proven that quick response from a website is
>important... sometimes more important that how easy the site is to
>navigate.
>An ASP/PHP page can take 30 seconds load, but appear to load much more
>quickly, because the page output is sent while the page is being generated.
>A CF page is only transmitted AFTER the CF script has finished executing.
CFFLUSH ???
>Take a look at all the major search engines... they use unbuffered
>output...
>and for good reason!
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>Ok, that was my $0.02.. thanks for listening!
PLease continue too rant + rave!!! One thing about Allaire is it does
listen. They lost the way a little around v4 but they seem to be coming good
again. JRun is great too.
Justin
>
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