What type of apps do you build?
Posted by johnb | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 19-11-2008
Tags: ColdFusion
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I’m curious to find out the type of applications that people are building with ColdFusion – what do I mean by that?
1. Are you building ‘applications’ or are you building ‘websites’? I know there’s a fine line as to what makes a website an application – but I think most people would know what I mean asking that question.
2. If you deployed an app/site today from source control – 6 months down the line could you simply redeploy the code from source control if the web server failed – assuming Db is on a separate server and have the application fully operational?
3. Once you’ve deployed your applications aside from data stored in a database do your applications store data else where, e.g. writing files to disk, uploads etc?
Just curious, thanks for any responses.
1. Applications mostly
2. No, it usually requires restoring uploaded photos or other similar files that aren’t put under source control plus at least one xml configuration file. We plan to solve this by using a separate file server or something like Amazon S3.
3. Only uploads
1. Websites mostly but I’ve developed my own cms that I tweak to be custom for each website I build. There are a lot of CFCs that don’t change, just the forms I use.
2. What’s source control?
3. Sometimes I write information that’s used a lot to txt files and use cfincludes instead of querying an additional 100 times while someone is viewing the site. People can also upload files.