“A three kilometer-long space ship laid out like an early 2000s era website:
* NAV at the top/front/head of the ship
* drive section in the FOOTER
* left-hand nav running all the way down the length of the ship
* a CAROUSEL to replicate gravity
* powered by COLDFUSION”
@cypnk Yup. And they've massively improved it. Had to deal with it a couple jobs ago. It's now a WAR file and each app can be an independent WAR file. Devs would send me a new file and I'd drop it into tomcat and *boom* done. All languages should have apps that easy to deploy.
@sungo That’s the ultimate Put Files Here > Done
@cypnk Yup. Particularly since each of those war files can be a different CF version. As the admin, I don't have to know about anything except that the file is in the right place and tomcat isn't screaming about it.
Anyone remember when half the websites had sitemaps? 😎
The "best" landing pages were the giant gifs with section links
2000s-era websites were wonderful, and way more functional than many modern sites are!
@linkskywalker @frostotron And no two looked exactly the same. These days, I have a hard time telling one site from another
And understanding how to make one was the work of a few weeks of casual study and practice, rather than years of dedicated education. Thus, many folks were empowered to create platforms on the web who.
You're not supposed to favorite it before I can delete it and fix the typo! Nooooo!
@linkskywalker Hahaha! That just means it's a hand-crafted toot ;)
FYI ColdFusion is still around
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColdFusion
“The Roadmap projects ColdFusion development out to the year 2021.”