I’m currently embarking on a journey to create an e-commerce website using Coldfusion 8. I think Coldfusion is one of the most underrated programing languages out there. I have recently decided to give up defending it against other languages. Well except for this post. I would say that PHP is a great language as a matter of fact this WordPress blog is running on PHP. It’s a language that I want to become decent with at some point in the future.Asp has the name recognition of Microsoft and really thats about it in my book. As far as security is concerned Hannaford Grocery stores just had their credit card data breached and they use asp.net. Usually when you hear about a company getting their data compromised it usually an asp application that was breached. Security really depends on the programmer and not the language.

Coldfusion cuts development time down drastically and anyone I have ever know that uses Coldfusion loves it. It operates on Apache servers as well as Windows servers. Asp can NOT claim that feat. The markup is actually compiled into Java before it’s executed. But Coldfusion is our little secret if I can code something in less time with fewer lines of code then that makes me a more efficient freelancer. Meaning I can spend more time on the design and the front end. There are a lot of ecommerce sites out there but very few of them look stunning.

I will post a link to my Colfusion powered ecommerce site as soon as it finished. Hopefully within a week or so.

Look out for a special introductory price too!

Alex