Application Generation

Musings on DSLs, DSM, Agile, SPLs and CFML by Peter Bell

Welcome to my new Blog

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Welcome to the new home of my application generation blog. Unfortunately the spam was becoming too much for the old platform and rather than having to upgrade BlogCFC versions manually it made more sense to jump to a hosted environment so I could focus on writing my blog – not handling the technical details.

I have a good backlog of posts and have been doing lots of fun stuff recently, so look forward to some new postings. And please update your feed readers to point to http://appgen.pbell.com/?feed=rss


Written by peterbell

November 2, 2009 at 11:10 am

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  1. Hi Peter,

    I’m not trying to be confrontational…but I find it strange that you switched programming languages and blogging platforms just so you can stop the spam. If I remember right, you just had a captcha on your old blog (correct me if I’m wrong). Did you research all of the CF based spam prevention solutions (that work very well, I might add)?

    Jake Munson

    November 4, 2009 at 2:42 pm

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    • Hi Jake,

      Great question. I didn’t change programming languages (although WP happens to be in PHP), I moved from being in the business of running a blog to being in the business of writing a blog.

      After the switch Brian Rinaldi asked me a similar question as he uses Mango which has good spam protection, good auto-updating, etc.

      At the end of the day, I *could* research the CF spam prevention solutions, or I could get paid my billable rate to work on projects. It would have cost me hundreds of billable dollars to upgrade to a new version of BlogCFC/Mango, research and implement the spam protection (even if it was easy) and I’d still be responsible for maintaining the hosting, making sure the code continued to work, handling bug fixes and upgrades and the like. Even if I was done in an hour it’d have cost me over $100.

      I had a wordpress account already for a Groovy blog, it works, and it costs me a few bucks a year. It was simply leaving the business of blog hosting. If there was an equivalent WordPress competitor with same value proposition and comparable user base running CF I’d have chosen that.

      peterbell

      November 4, 2009 at 2:59 pm

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