BlueDragon - Deal or No Deal?

**WoW_15** · Dec 12, 2006 11:58

I'm considering running the free version of BlueDragon for an intranet application. Does anyone here have any experience using it? I'd like to connect it to MSSQL but the free version does not seem to include a bundled connector. Have any of you ever worked around this before?

Any advice you can share?

**downtroden** · Dec 12, 2006 14:59

I actually prefer BD over CF for my local development machine, simply because it feels and starts up faster. I've always hooked into MySQL so can't help you with that, but I like BD!

**WoW_15** · Dec 12, 2006 15:33

Have you ever used it in a production environment?

**downtroden** · Dec 12, 2006 15:38

yes. Used it in a department 'tracker' system, on our 400mhz G4 backup/file server, with MySQL 4.1. Worked just fine, even with traffic from file transfers.

**WoW_15** · Dec 12, 2006 15:46

Excellent! Now if I can just figure out how to get it connected to MSSQL

**creole** · Dec 12, 2006 16:25

Might this help you?
http://www.markdrew.co.uk/blog/index...-a-MacBook-Pro

**WoW_15** · Dec 12, 2006 17:54

Thanks Creole... I actually had run across that page myself while doing research beofre I posted here. I wasn't so sure it would apply to BlueDragon as it focused on Coldfusion 7 and MSSQL connections...

I'm just beginning to look at BD so I'm not sure how similar to Coldfusion it really is.

**mcsolas** · Dec 12, 2006 20:51

btw - myspace runs on blue dragon (interview re:)

There is a few key differences. Didnt support a few of the new mx7 features, but I am sure they are still adding more.

There are also more cf rendering engines available. I just found out about the the first 2. I looked into the smith project and when I saw it didnt yet support cfc's I just went back to coding. First looks at the other 2 sites are promising.
Railo
IgniteFusion
Smith Project

**downtroden** · Dec 12, 2006 21:22

I think myspace is shifting away from CF and going towards .net... that's why they're using BD... so they wouldn't have to support a full rewrite of code that already works.

I was excited when I first found that out, but then I read more of what's actually going on... and I'm sad again

**mcsolas** · Dec 13, 2006 17:02

Originally Posted by downtroden

I think myspace is shifting away from CF and going towards .net... that's why they're using BD... so they wouldn't have to support a full rewrite of code that already works.

I was excited when I first found that out, but then I read more of what's actually going on... and I'm sad again

Links?

Anyways, that was just an example. At the least, BD helped them grow into the top (5?) websites in the world category.

**downtroden** · Dec 13, 2006 19:11

...reading my post... I wasn't happy to hear them want dot.net, I was happy it was CFML.

from the vendor themself...

http://www.newatlanta.com/corporate/...e_announce.jsp

Coldfusion helped them grow... BD is just helping them continue. My hopes is that with the might of the venerable Adobe Monster, CFML will bully it's way back into the hearts of corp. execs and thus force it back into the hearts and minds of wayward developers.

**WoW_15** · Dec 14, 2006 11:18

I was able to get BlueDragon installed and integrated with MSSQL 2000. It works great... in all honesty, I was quite surprised... I wasn't expecting it to work as well as it seems.

Of course, I've only had it running for 1 day now, but it was rather painless getting everything configured.

Now let's see how it deals with Model-Glue....

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