Ryan Emerle

One of the best features of ColdFusion is its versatility. Very few other languages or environments offer the cross-platform, open framework for development that the ColdFusion platform provides. As CF developers, we have implemented countless Web-based workflow and content management style applications. As an Internet service and hosting provider, however, we used a number of different technologies to monitor and manage our network. While a huge number of commercial and free software packages exist for managing various parts of a network, our employer lacked a single platform for managing corporate information and our network. Fortunately, we use ColdFusion so we're familiar with its extensibility and could take advantage of that to meet our need. One of the key techno... (more)