A stupid question

[GundamSonicZeroX]

*puts up flame shield*
What is Cold Fusion and what is it commonly used for?

 

[yllus]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColdFusion

 

[DaveSimmons]

Yes, it IS a stupid question to ask this without taking 5 seconds to Google first, since the first and second results explain it perfectly.

 

[Unheard]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Yes, it IS a stupid question to ask this without taking 5 seconds to Google first, since the first and second results explain it perfectly.

Ease off of him a bit. Ya he could of Google'd it, but you don't need to bust his balls over it.

FWIW, Cold Fusion != ColdFusion. The first has to do with nuclear stuff, the second is a scripting language similar to PHP, ASP, etc.

 

[Nothinman]

FWIW, Cold Fusion != ColdFusion. The first has to do with nuclear stuff, the second is a scripting language similar to PHP, ASP, etc.

But even if you put Cold Fusion into google it says "Did you mean ColdFusion?" and the first link is to Adobe's ColdFusion MX page.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

I looked it up on Wikipedia and noticed that there are a lot of apps that I never heard off listed. I was hoping that someone can help explain it without comparing it to another app. Also, I was hoping for someone with a little bit of experience with it to say, "I use it for (insert use)."

 

[Unheard]

Originally posted by: GundamSonicZeroX
I looked it up on Wikipedia and noticed that there are a lot of apps that I never heard off listed. I was hoping that someone can help explain it without comparing it to another app. Also, I was hoping for someone with a little bit of experience with it to say, "I use it for (insert use)."

Most people use Dreamweaver to do their CF coding as being an Adobe product, it supports CF out the box. Another option is to use CF Eclipse as your IDE.

Are you currently familiar with any of the other web scripting languages out there? CF is very similar to those aside from the context you use. Here @ my work we use it to drive the back end functions of our web service. We do exit interviews for companies, and it powers not only the interview system, but also the reporting system.

I hope this helps you out.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Originally posted by: Unheard

Originally posted by: GundamSonicZeroX
I looked it up on Wikipedia and noticed that there are a lot of apps that I never heard off listed. I was hoping that someone can help explain it without comparing it to another app. Also, I was hoping for someone with a little bit of experience with it to say, "I use it for (insert use)."

Most people use Dreamweaver to do their CF coding as being an Adobe product, it supports CF out the box. Another option is to use CF Eclipse as your IDE.

Are you currently familiar with any of the other web scripting languages out there? CF is very similar to those aside from the context you use. Here @ my work we use it to drive the back end functions of our web service. We do exit interviews for companies, and it powers not only the interview system, but also the reporting system.

I hope this helps you out.

Thanks. That helps.
Nah. my whenever I need to use any PHP or JS, I just either use a precoded file, or ask my friend to help.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: GundamSonicZeroX
I looked it up on Wikipedia and noticed that there are a lot of apps that I never heard off listed. I was hoping that someone can help explain it without comparing it to another app. Also, I was hoping for someone with a little bit of experience with it to say, "I use it for (insert use)."

See, that's heading towards a reasonable question:

"I looked it up on wiki but didn't understand what Perl, PHP or ASP are either"

It shows you made an effort and needed help with the concepts, that you weren't just being a lazy sod.

These are all programming languages that run on the server to let a web designer do things that they can't do with plain HTML, like read from a database, write to a file, or do math.