ColdFusion makes developing web applications insanely quick and easy. I don’t need to worry about the nuts and bolts of how to connect to a database, or how to invoke a web service, or how to read and write files on the server. I just write straightforward tags in my favorite text editor — and [...

ColdFusion makes developing web applications insanely quick and easy. I don’t need to worry about the nuts and bolts of how to connect to a database, or how to invoke a web service, or how to read and write files on the server. I just write straightforward tags in my favorite text editor — and I’m done, web application launched for all the world to use. But there are some things that web applications can’t do. They can’t really read and write files on the client machine.

There’s an interesting discussion about programming frameworks going on over at the Wharton Computing developer blog: Why Not Frameworks? Wharton Computing is where I work as a ColdFusion developer/administrator. There’s fifteen or so full time ColdFusion and Flex developers, and ten or fifteen more part-time developers scattered throughout the school.