Since I announced that I was going to do future development with Ruby on Rails, I've received some email asking "Is ColdFusion really dead then?" CF developers have been hearing this for years, but I started thinking about the question itself.

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Well, this is a hard post to write. After months of investigating, soul-searching, and examining, I've decided to move future application development to Ruby On Rails.

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Try googling "quote simplicity" and "quote complexity" and you'll find some wonderful thoughts from people like Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Christopher Alexander, and Charles Mingus on the virtues of simplicty and the perils of complexity. But it seems the way of things that they often start out simple and accrue complexity.

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Well, I finished that monster prototype, with much credit to my coding partner, Maciej. I figured that over 11 days, I worked 165 hours. Whew! Yesterday, we gave the presentation to a large multi-national corporation. To my relief and gratification, they were very impressed. Which leaves me, now, with only one small problem...

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Yesterday, we looked at some simple server code that is called by events generated on the client. We saw that the server returns an EVENT property in its response -- but that my example never uses it. Today, we're going to see how that is used -- and why I think EDP is a BigDeal(tm).

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Yesterday, I showed an example of an EDP implementation on the client. Let's do a quick review of the main points and then look at the server code.

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I recently wrote a blog post on EDP (Event-Driven Programming).

Ray Camden asked me to come up with an example of using EDP with a Model-View-Controller architecture. Over the weekend, I did just that. As a bonus, I'm including a jQuery plugin that will allow you to make Ajax calls to the server without using ColdFusion's CFAJAXPROXY tag.

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Well, now I've done it. If I had not sufficiently alienated both Adobe and the ColdFusion community leaders, I participated in a discussion at the suggestion of my good friend, Clark Valberg.

Having read my blogpost from a few weeks back in which I expressed my concern that ColdFusion was losing its way, Clark decided that it would make for an interesting podcast to have Brian Kotek (as an able proponent of OO in CF orthodoxy), Ben Nadel (as an honest developer looking for answers) and me (as a reluctant heretic) talk about OO in ColdFusion.

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Every cool project needs a cool code name. The open source ColdFusion ecommerce project now has one: Project Serenity.

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A while back, I did a post asking for ideas for an open-source project. Having thought long and hard about the many (truly excellent) ideas, I think I'm ready to begin the next phase.

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