There is a long running debate over which of these two languages is better for developing dynamic web pages. Each can provide a great deal of functionality and features (along with database access) to a website. Each are in high demand be web developers, and it seems that everyone has their preference for one reason or another.

Most would argue or even agree that ColdFusion is easier to use. Its tag based setup makes it very similar to writing HTML. As such the transition from one into the other is easier and the vast array of tags provides an extensive source of functions. As you would expect, this makes ColdFusion very accessible and the small amounts of concise code make debugging a very straight forward process. Furthermore it is very simple to make the transition from one database system to another in ColdFusion as the process only required one element of the code to be changed. ColdFusion also has built in functionality such as XML integration, charting and POP mail retrieval. Read the rest of this entry »