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Twitter flight invite page is built in ColdFusion

8 points by jflowers45 12y ago

jflowers45 12y ago
As a longtime ColdFusion user, and maybe one of the 3 of us who is remaining, I found this to be interesting.
- byoung2 12y ago
  As an April Fools joke a few years ago we changed our dev server to use all .cfm extensions (it was a node.js app) and convinced everybody that we were switching to ColdFusion
  - thirsteh 12y ago
    It was a node.js app. You didn't need to add .cfm to the paths to make it a joke. /me ducks
    - fleitz 12y ago
      node.js or how I stopped worrying and learned to love spaghetti code.
      - deleted 12y ago
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        fleitz 12y ago
        I have to admit that sometimes I write sphaghetti code, however, no code I've ever written has bugs, because I aim not to write bugs in my code. :)
  - jflowers45 12y ago
    haha that's a good bit!
jamesjyu 12y ago
This is not that interesting. Marketing pages like these are usually outsourced to agencies. This doesn't suggest that Twitter itself will be moving their main stack to ColdFusion.
- jflowers45 12y ago
  humorous/ironic is probably the better word. The application server on this site is pretty much irrelevant, they could've just used a google form to collect the data.
rip747 12y ago
FYI. Just because it's a CFM extension, doesn't mean that they are using ColdFusion (which is Adobe's CFML engine). They could very well be using Railo (http://www.getrailo.org/ http://www.getrailo.org/) or OpenBD (http://openbd.org/ http://openbd.org/). Both of which are free, open sourced and magnitudes faster then ColdFusion.
- jflowers45 12y ago
  good call ... maybe better to say using CFML
dutchrapley 12y ago
Apple's Investor Relations website is also built with ColdFusion - http://investor.apple.com/sec.cfm http://investor.apple.com/sec.cfm - which is mostly likely not built by a consulting service. I'd bet that neither site uses Adobe ColdFusion, but rather the Railo open source engine - http://www.getrailo.org/ http://www.getrailo.org/ The perception is that most developers that have built applications in CF have moved on to other languages and frameworks like Go, Clojure, Ruby on Rails, Django, Python, and Node.js. While app development in CF has been on the decline for several years, there is still a very solid CMS on the platform (Mura) and is used by Intel, Nationwide Insurance and few other high profile companies and colleges. What I found the most interesting was the use of "fuseaction" in the url - https://www.twitterflight.com/?fuseaction=reg.Apply https://www.twitterflight.com/?fuseaction=reg.Apply This is a convention that was used by the Fusebox framework, which has been defunct for quite a long time.
- rip747 12y ago
  Mura... solid? I think not. More like convenient. It's one of two free CMS built on CFML. The second one being ContentBox.
dutchrapley 12y ago
This is the agency behind the site - http://www.webeventsglobal.com http://www.webeventsglobal.com

8 points by jflowers45 12y ago

jflowers45 12y ago

As a longtime ColdFusion user, and maybe one of the 3 of us who is remaining, I found this to be interesting.

byoung2 12y ago
As an April Fools joke a few years ago we changed our dev server to use all .cfm extensions (it was a node.js app) and convinced everybody that we were switching to ColdFusion
- thirsteh 12y ago
  It was a node.js app. You didn't need to add .cfm to the paths to make it a joke. /me ducks
  - fleitz 12y ago
    node.js or how I stopped worrying and learned to love spaghetti code.
    - deleted 12y ago
      [deleted]
      - fleitz 12y ago
        I have to admit that sometimes I write sphaghetti code, however, no code I've ever written has bugs, because I aim not to write bugs in my code. :)
- jflowers45 12y ago
  haha that's a good bit!

jamesjyu 12y ago

This is not that interesting. Marketing pages like these are usually outsourced to agencies. This doesn't suggest that Twitter itself will be moving their main stack to ColdFusion.

jflowers45 12y ago
humorous/ironic is probably the better word. The application server on this site is pretty much irrelevant, they could've just used a google form to collect the data.

rip747 12y ago

FYI. Just because it's a CFM extension, doesn't mean that they are using ColdFusion (which is Adobe's CFML engine). They could very well be using Railo (http://www.getrailo.org/ http://www.getrailo.org/) or OpenBD (http://openbd.org/ http://openbd.org/). Both of which are free, open sourced and magnitudes faster then ColdFusion.

jflowers45 12y ago
good call ... maybe better to say using CFML

dutchrapley 12y ago

Apple's Investor Relations website is also built with ColdFusion - http://investor.apple.com/sec.cfm http://investor.apple.com/sec.cfm - which is mostly likely not built by a consulting service. I'd bet that neither site uses Adobe ColdFusion, but rather the Railo open source engine - http://www.getrailo.org/ http://www.getrailo.org/ The perception is that most developers that have built applications in CF have moved on to other languages and frameworks like Go, Clojure, Ruby on Rails, Django, Python, and Node.js. While app development in CF has been on the decline for several years, there is still a very solid CMS on the platform (Mura) and is used by Intel, Nationwide Insurance and few other high profile companies and colleges. What I found the most interesting was the use of "fuseaction" in the url - https://www.twitterflight.com/?fuseaction=reg.Apply https://www.twitterflight.com/?fuseaction=reg.Apply This is a convention that was used by the Fusebox framework, which has been defunct for quite a long time.

rip747 12y ago
Mura... solid? I think not. More like convenient. It's one of two free CMS built on CFML. The second one being ContentBox.

dutchrapley 12y ago

This is the agency behind the site - http://www.webeventsglobal.com http://www.webeventsglobal.com