Plum Is Just Peachy!

I've spent some time over the past week working with the new ColdFusion Methodology, IDE, Framework, and all around Wizard. This free (with a small ad) software can be downloaded at www.productivityenhancement.com. The software is written by the father/son team of Adam and David Churvis. These guys have put together over the past several years, a labor of love for the ColdFusion community. Can you imagine having a working application up and running in a matter of hours rather than weeks? It can be done in Plum. Plum creates all of the add, edit, search, list, and delete forms that your application will use in a matter of minutes. Add to this, client and server-side validation with no additional work! Plum also handles authentication and authorization with a custom tag called . The Plum feature list is huge! I found that I could easily modify the header.cfm and footer.cfm files along with the baseline stylesheet to create completely different look and feels with no problem. The custom tags that makeup the product encapsulates code so that you can just add a couple of lines of code that will call 50 lines of code. This product is a real timesaver. Thanks to Adam and David!