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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. |
Viewpoint: Not Every
ColdFusion Developer
Should Be A Flex
Developer 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 ... May. 16, 2008 11:45 AM Reads: 4,198 Replies: 6 | What Is ColdFusion in the
Age of Java? 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, et... May. 16, 2008 11:30 AM Reads: 1,621 Replies: 1 | Opinion: Give ColdFusion
Some Room to Breathe 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 d... May. 15, 2008 02:15 PM Reads: 681 | So You Think You Know
SQL? 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 lang... Apr. 27, 2008 10:45 AM Reads: 3,475 Replies: 3 | Flex vs. AJAX: Stop The
Madness! 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
tech... Feb. 29, 2008 06:30 AM Reads: 5,842 Replies: 3 | Spry - AJAX Made Simple 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 We... May. 18, 2007 08:00 PM Reads: 16,526 | It's Time To Standardize
CFML 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 us... Mar. 30, 2007 07:00 PM Reads: 9,641 Replies: 6 | In Today's World of AJAX
and Flex, Is XML Past Its
Prime? 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
processi... Feb. 9, 2007 08:45 PM Reads: 19,873 Replies: 3 | Is XML Overrated? 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
native... Jan. 30, 2007 10:00 AM Reads: 7,247 | The RIA Team Concept 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: 9,012 | Industry Viewpoint: The
ColdFusion Knowledge Gap 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'
dev... Oct. 25, 2006 09:45 PM Reads: 9,832 Replies: 3 | Leveraging
WebDAV-Accessible
Directories with Mac OS X
Server & ColdFusion MX
7.0.1 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
applic... Jan. 28, 2006 04:00 PM Reads: 7,426 Replies: 1 |
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