Productivity Enhancement Releases Plum V1.0 Public Beta
Atlanta, GA -- November 30, 2004 -- If you're a ColdFusion developer, you should stop and take a close look at a newly announced RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool before you start your next project, because it could save you weeks of development effort.
The newest brainchild from father and son team Adam and David Churvis is Plum, which stands for "Practical Lightweight Universal Methodology." Plum comprises a RAD development tool and code generator, a comprehensive application framework, and an effective development methodology. According to Adam Churvis, President of Productivity Enhancement, "Plum delivers the first complete end-to-end solution for ColdFusion developers."
Plum also contains a unit test generator, a stored procedure generator, a ColdFusion Component generator, and much more. (A complete list of things that Plum can do is available at
http://www.productivityenhancement.com/plum/WhatPlumCanDo.cfm.)
Plum is fast, too. "A complete website can be generated in less than two minutes, and building your own business logic and workflows on top of the Plum Framework is simple and straightforward," says David Churvis, who was the chief programmer on the Plum project.
Perhaps the sweetest note to many developers' ears will be its price: free. "Our company philosophy has always been to develop powerful tools for the ColdFusion developer community, and to price them affordably for the small developer. We decided to pull out all the stops and just give Plum away. Everyone thinks we're crazy for doing it."
And while the documentation for most community-based tools is sparse or non-existent, Plum's documentation is comprehensive. Plum's integrated help holds the equivalent of a 240-page book, and contains fifty tutorials from basic to master-level that help developers get up and running quickly.
"Developers who use Plum have two advantages," claims Adam Churvis. "They can spend their time concentrating on developing business logic rather than infrastructure and data management, and they can price their services more competitively because it takes significantly less time to deliver solid applications."
Fuson Authority will be covering this new tool, doing a review and a more in-depth interview with Adam and David Churvis in an upcoming issue of Fusion Authority. For more information on PLUM, you can visit the
Productivity Enhancement site or contact
info@ProductivityEnhancement.com.
