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Andrew Powell
Andrew Powell has been architecting and developing Web applications for over 10 years using ColdFusion, Java, ASP.NET and ASP. His background includes experience running IT Departments for firms in the executive search and aviation consulting fields. You can read his blog on everything ColdFusion, Java, Spry, & Flex at www.infoaccelerator.net.

By Andrew Powell
Flex or AJAX? Which one is better? Which one will 'win' in the RIA space? I am tired of this argument. I'm tired of seeing blog posts keeping this debate alive. It's a non-issue, really. I think that people make it an issue when they try, or investigate, each technology and find one ea...
Jun. 9, 2008 04:30 PM  Reads: 11,348  Replies: 4
By Andrew Powell
As CFML developers start to learn Java and move into the realm of Spring and Hibernate, it is very important to stop and ask 'What Is ColdFusion?'. ColdFusion, since CFMX, has been a J2EE application running within a J2EE server (JRun, JBoss, Tomcat, Websphere, etc.). This is important...
May. 23, 2008 02:00 PM  Reads: 7,869  Replies: 1
By Andrew Powell
My personal approach has become to to let ColdFusion do what it does best, and no more. No AJAX generation or any of that silly UI stuff. Leave that to the AJAX frameworks, or Flex, or whatever your UI is going to be on the front-end. That's what the UI tool was designed for, CF wasn't...
May. 16, 2008 12:45 PM  Reads: 6,065  Replies: 1
By Andrew Powell
I am going to go ahead and contend that although a good number of ColdFusion developers can grasp and understand Flex very well, there are also a good number of ColdFusion developers who have no business going anywhere near Flex. Why do I say this? I am a big fan of Flex. I use it dail...
May. 16, 2008 11:45 AM  Reads: 9,304  Replies: 8
By Andrew Powell
A lot of developers get forced into writing SQL as part of their jobs. Should they be doing it? I don't think so. It's not necessarily the best of ideas, and in MOST cases should probably be avoided at all costs. Besides, developers cannot be experts in every language or technology rig...
Apr. 27, 2008 10:45 AM  Reads: 5,564  Replies: 3
By Andrew Powell
AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is nothing new. The technologies behind AJAX have been around for quite a while. Jesse James Garrett just gave the amalgamation of XML, DOM, and JavaScript a catchy new name. Many CF developers hear buzzwords like AJAX and Web 2.0 and simply tune ...
May. 18, 2007 08:00 PM  Reads: 18,468
By Andrew Powell
ColdFusion, BlueDragon, Coral Web Builder, IgniteFusion, and Railo. All are CFML engines, but none of them support the same implementation of CFML as each other. This, in the long run, is not a good thing. Up front, I am not opposed to other CFML engines. Yes, I use only ColdFusion in...
Mar. 30, 2007 07:00 PM  Reads: 10,631  Replies: 6
By Andrew Powell
Does XML need to be regarded as a good idea whose time has come and gone? There are plenty of capable replacements availabe when using AJAX and Flex. Some examples that come to mind are JSON and AMF. Both of these formats require smaller payloads and less processing on the receiving an...
Feb. 9, 2007 08:45 PM  Reads: 21,448  Replies: 3
By Andrew Powell
Is XML overrated? This is a question not asked lightly. It is a heavy and bloated question, much like XML itself. XML has been around since 1997. It is document based and it is extremely verbose. It requires a higher payload across the network and cannot be natively used once it arrive...
Jan. 30, 2007 10:00 AM  Reads: 8,262
By Andrew Powell
One thing that constantly bugs me on projects is when I am asked to work on the user interface. I can do CSS, but it is, admittedly, not my strongest suit. I can do some graphics work, but not my strongest suit.
Dec. 13, 2006 12:00 PM  Reads: 10,045
By Andrew Powell
This is something that has been simmering below the surface for a while, but needs to come out in the open. There is a knowledge gap in the ColdFusion community and it is only getting wider. There are a lot of what would be considered 'entry-level' or 'junior' developers out there. The...
Oct. 25, 2006 09:45 PM  Reads: 10,823  Replies: 3
By Andrew Powell
Recently, with the introduction of ColdFusion MX 7.0.1, Macromedia began fully supporting a Mac OS X Server installation of ColdFusion. OS X Server used to be supported only in a development environment installed on top of JRun, Tomcat, or some other J2EE application server. Opening th...
Jan. 28, 2006 04:00 PM  Reads: 8,402  Replies: 1

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