CMS done right with ColdFusion

by Serge Jespers on 07. May, 2008 in ColdFusion, News

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Can you tell I’m really excited? I was just reading up on today’s blog posts and came across a post that talks about something called “ColdBricks”.

Oscar Arevalo writes:

ColdBricks is a free and open source content management system specially tailored for highly modular websites like portals and dashboards. The current version runs on ColdFusion 7, 8 and Railo 2

I was immediately curious to see it in action. The ColdBricks website has a fully working live demo and I am totally impressed! This is a great piece of programming and it’s free and completely open source. Go ahead and try it yourself! I am sure you’ll be as pleasantly surprised as I am. This really is a serious competitor for the Drupals and Joomlas out there and it runs on ColdFusion ;-)

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7 Responses to “CMS done right with ColdFusion”

  1. fabianv 07. May, 2008 at 9:44 pm #

    I’ve asked a hand full of developers of all kinds about Coldfusion, half dont know what it is/havnt really bothered and the other half have said negative things.

    Now, I’m not the type of person to base opinions simply on what other people say so I tried investigating a little and got scared off by the price of Coldfusion compared to something like PHP which is free.

    Could you maybe tell me what the Coldfusion hype is about because as of now I have nothing pulling me towards it.

    Thanks :)

  2. Serge Jespers 08. May, 2008 at 6:23 am #

    Hey Fabian,

    First of all, I also come from a PHP background. But what if you could do the same things only 3 times faster? CF also has a number of features you can’t find in any other server language.

    I plan on doing a small comparison between PHP and ColdFusion. Just comparing the same type of ‘application’ in both. Can’t tell you when I will be able to publish that though but it is on my agenda.

    Serge

  3. ahamad 09. May, 2008 at 12:53 pm #

    I downloaded and tried it on my local machine – ColdBricks looks good…

  4. Blair Rorani 30. Jun, 2008 at 5:36 am #

    Anyone tried Sava as a CMS? I think Goodbarry is pretty good as a hosted solution. Sava looks comparable. Is Coldbricks better?

  5. Tony Bradshaw 29. Oct, 2008 at 5:18 am #

    We use ColdFusion on our sites. http://www.daveramsey.com and http://www.mytotalmoneymakeover.com. We get just over 1 million unique visitors per month with about 60,000 visitors per day. We’ve used ColdFusion for about 9 years on our website and also use it for our internal business reports/systems.

    We had planned to move off ColdFusion, but since they released it on a J2EE platform, we’ve stayed with it. Lots of great features. Check out the enterprise version. Lot’s of extra stuff in there.

    You can also see what some of our developers are working on at http://webmonkeyswithlaserbeams.wordpress.com.

  6. ike 25. Nov, 2008 at 1:18 am #

    @fabianv – not sure if you’ve seen the recent news, but Railo is an alternative CFML server platform and versuion 3 will be open source (I’m not sure if it’s been released yet). Also Open BlueDragon is another open source CFML server as well as SmithProject. So if you’re interested in working with ColdFusion you’ve now got three different free versions to choose from in various stages of development.

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