You're bringing your ColdFusion app into this century, but you've never heard of CFC's? Still using third party tags for image manipulation? Didn't know there was scripting? Before you start touching your code, it's time to do some research...
ColdFusion has grown a lot, in the past decade. CFC's help create reusable code, and allow for Object Oriented like architectures. There's built in image manipulation methods, MS Office, Exchange, and Sharepoint integration, native JSON serialization on remote requests, PDF creation and manipulation, and a whole lot more. On top of that, you can script most anything now as well. Take some time to look through the documentation to see some of the new things available for your application.
Speaking of changes, the <center> and <font> tags were deprecated years ago as well. Today, we use HTML markup for data, and CSS for display declaration. Get up to speed on HTML and CSS and JavaScript. You're a web developer, not a process manager. All of this data is useless if the user can't "use" it. Learning these things now will go a long way as you bring your app up-to-date. I bet your SQL server has some upgrades too (like stored procs in MySQL).
The web changes at the speed of light. It can take a lot to keep up, but it's necessary in an environment that never stops growing.
This article is the fourth in a series of articles on bringing life back to your legacy ColdFusion applications. Follow along in the Legacy Code category.
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