August 20, 2009
Getting started!
O.K.! Where to begin? Well, I can only tell you they way I did it. May not be the best way, but it works for me. First of all, try to get an idea of how much traffic you expect your application to generate. Why? Because this will help determine which database to use as the back end of the application. If your site will not generate much traffic, MS Access may be fine. If you expect that your application will be more robust and get a lot of traffic, MySQL or SQL Server would be best. But for the purposes of this blog post, I’ll use an MS Access database.
Depending on the development environment, most likely a “Development” instance of the application will need to be set created. What I did was set up my computer to be my development instance. This is how I did it:
I downloaded a free copy of ColdFusion 8, the developer version: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/?view=gettingstarted. The download should provide enough information to get the developer version up and running on your machine.
Welcome!
This blog is simply a place for me to share things that I have learned about using ColdFusion, the ColdFusion Administrator, MySQL, SQL Server 2008, and MS Access. I am not a guru by any stretch of the imagination, but I created this blog with the goal of sharing with my coworkers my experience using these tools to support higher education.
