Chapter 1Why This Book?
I was in the middle of a very typical meeting, with a very typical group, in my very typical company. I was in charge of our web application servers. My responsibilities included maintaining software, maintaining hardware, enforcing best practices, and getting people to upgrade. I was always trying to get people to upgrade.
In fact, we were talking about upgrades.
“I need you guys to set up some sort of schedule for moving your applications from ColdFusion 6 to ColdFusion 8,” I said, for the fifth time in as many meetings.
The expected response was delivered with a sigh, “We can’t move to the new servers. Every time we move our applications to a new server we have problems and incompatibilities. We just can’t have that ...
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