Greg Nilsen

After seeing this post on SES URLs from Ray Camden, I noticed that the idea behind it was similar to what I was already using on this blog software. I didn't think it was all that incredible on it's own, buy maybe I was wrong. Anyway, here's the code I've been using in my application.cfm file:

<cfset urlstring = cgi.path_info>
<cfloop from="1" to=#ListLen(urlstring,"/")# index="i">
    <cfif i mod 2>
        <cfset paramName = "URL." & ListGetAt(urlstring,i,"/")>
    <cfelse>
        <cfparam name="#paramName#" default="#ListGetAt(urlstring,i,"/")#">
    </cfif>
</cfloop>

This is written for general ColdFusion use, not the Model-Glue environment, so there's no check for an event variable. It's not too much different, but I thought I'd go ahead and post it. Feel free to use it for your own purposes, but please give credit where it's due.

This was good news to me, so I thought I'd share it. TIOBE Software recently released their Programming Community Index for March 2006, and Macromedia's ColdFusion language took a big jump in the rankings. It's up to being the 13th most popular language (up from 26th in March 2005). The usual suspects (Java, C/C++, and PHP) remained at the top of the list, but as a ColdFusion developer I was glad to see that it is becoming more popular.

While I may not program in ColdFusion as much any more since I have switched jobs and no longer use it professionally, I still use ColdFusion for almost all of my website development, including this blog, If Jesus Had A Website, South Pittsburgh Assembly of God, and Spinach-Dips.com. I find that it is a very powerful and straight-forward language, and I'm not surprised to see it's rate of adoption increasing. All you really need is a good host and you can get rolling.

Now, it I just had more time to work on my ColdFusion development, I could really get good stuff together!