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After writing my post yesterday about Coldfusion being removed from the TIOBE Index I decided to send an email to TIOBE to question their decision and ask them how they justified their actions on clearly inaccurate information.
This morning I received an email from TIOBE inviting me to check out an addition to their FAQ.
# Q: Who is Richard Bremner? (Bonus question only for this month, especially for the ColdFusion community)
I learned today in this post by Ben Forta that TIOBE has declassified ColdFusion as a programming language, meaning that Coldfusion (who recently improved it's rankings to place in the top 20) has been completely removed from it's index including historical references.
According to a news flash on their website:
Richard Bremner pointed out that ColdFusion is not a programming language. It is a framework comparable to JSP and ASP. As a consequence, ColdFusion has been removed from the TIOBE list. All its history has been deleted, which means that the history of the index has changed a bit as well.
As Ben Forta said: "I have no idea of who Richard Bremner is, or who made him the authority on the subject, but ... he's either mistaken, ignorant, or some combination thereof."
I agree with Ben on this one for sure. I understand removing ASP and JSP as they are "parts" of VB and Java respectively and are not in and of themselves programming languages.
I can only assume at Mr. Bremner reasoning in saying that because CFML compiles into Java bytecode it is not a distinct programming language.
But by that reasoning of course all "programming languages" are merely frameworks built on top of the Binary language.
Every once in a while this comes back to bite me when working with Ajax and creating the JSON return data by "hand". Just last week I had a strange problem with a lazy loading Ajax tree; one of the nodes stopped loading the children.
I check what my cfc was returning and it looked OK on the surface. On closer inspection I noticed that a user added quotes where I didn't expect them to be, which leads to another issue with users and that is: always expect the unexpected!
I noticed a post earlier today about the upcoming Model-Glue 3 framework. I have to be honest I took a look at the framework I think at version 1 and at that time was using a self "rolled" framework that suited my needs. Prior to that I experimented a bit with Fusebox back in 2000 (I didn't inhale honest) but never went much further than experimentation.
Since moving to Germany last year I was plunged into the deep end of Fusebox 5 and while I sometimes find the framework a bit "heavy" it's working rather well for us. Then I watched the sneak peak video and
A vulnerability that allowed Flex 2 to access public and remote methods through the Flex 2 remoting regardless of security settings has been fixed. Normally only remote methods should be accessible through the remoting gateway if remoting is specified in the remoting-config.xml file.
Yesterday, April 3rd 2008, Adobe released a Coldfusion Updater bringing the Coldfusion 8 to version 8.01.
Intermedia.net announced today that they have started offering Coldfusion 8 Enterprise hosting plans. The plans start at 39.99 USD and go up to 99.95 USD per month.
In a surprise announcement Adobe announced today that they will be placing Coldfusion on an Open Source road-map similar to that of Adobe Flex.
"This is in no way Adobe's response to BlueDragon placing their competing product on the path to open source," Ms. Schofield Coldfusions' Product Manager explained, "we just felt that a free open source Coldfusion would have a much greater market penetration than previously estimated."
I am currently working on a business process management and monitoring project at work using Inubit IS and Coldfusion.
I got a chance to play around a little bit this evening with ColdEXT. If you don't know what it is, it is a really good custom tag library that for a fair portion of the EXTJS library that is pretty easy to use.
It looks like Justin Carter spent a fair amount of time working on this custom tag library. He has a few examples packed into the zip file as well as on his blog but as of yet is lacking any extensive how-to guides (but most of you shouldn't have too much time figuring it out if you have had any exposure at all to EXT).
