Happy Birthday ColdFusion

It's hard to believe that ColdFusion is 13 years old this year. In the web world, that's ancient. But despite all the up and coming new languages, ColdFusion has proven it is still a major player in the world of dynamic websites.

Simon Whatley writes a great article about how ColdFusion is largely mis-understood that explains ten ways how and why CF is still a major player after all these years:

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we developed save iowa

the historic and catastrophic flooding in iowa was a tremendous tragedy for many in the beloved hawkeye state. the cities of cedar rapids, palo, cedar falls, waterloo, vinton, coralville, iowa city have been devastated. the state of iowa suffered over $1.2 billion dollars in damage.

save iowa was a website constructed by the nerds at brice cheddarn to assist the victims of the historic 2008 iowa floods. it contains flood related news, various ways to donate and volunteer and links to photos and videos to provide the disaster assistance to those in need. the site was featured on senator barack obama's website and the iowa city press citizen.