The SiteVision sponsorship encourages an open source and community-driven International effort to substantially enhance the ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) — a vital tool in web application and database development.
Roanoke VA July 6, 2015— SiteVision, Inc. and its development team have elected to sponsor The Lucee Association Switzerland (LAS) in its quest to continue modernization of CFML. Lucee is a public source derivative, or fork, of the Railo CFML open source engine which is backwards compatible with both Railo and Adobe ColdFusion. The Lucee Project is led by the Lucee Association Switzerland, a non-profit Swiss association. It is a growing international project that is committed to the success of its community delivering quality, free, open-source software within a nurturing and supportive developer environment.
SiteVision’s (http://www.sitevision.com) long experience in CFML web application development led to its endorsement of the LAS (http://www.lucee.org) and Project Lucee. The firm’s background in expert level CFML deployments fully embraces disciplines that enhance dynamic Web page creation and database access in a Web server environment. SiteVision’s Lead Technical Architect, Daria Norris, has been an enthusiastic supporter of advanced CFML scripting and is a frequent presenter on the CFML circuit. Steven Neiland, SiteVision Senior Developer, is also actively involved in Lucee Project testing, blogging and documenting.
In its simplest form, CFML like many other web scripting languages augments standard HTML files with database commands, conditional operators, high-level formatting functions, and other elements to produce web applications. According to LAS, Lucee is made for the web; it simplifies common tasks for this environment. It is a light-weight, dynamic scripting language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that enables the rapid development of simple to highly sophisticated web applications. Currently Lucee may be thought of as an upgrade to Railo which is itself, an open source modernization of CFML. The LAS group currently offers a stable release with Lucee 4.5, and has also recently released a 5.0 beta version, both of which are available to download from the Lucee Website.
In a keynote speech delivered at the dev.Objective() conference, 2015 in Minneapolis, MN, Geoff Bowers the acting LAS Secretary stressed that CFML compatibility was an essential goal: “For the sake of clarity, we will never remove something from the Lucee CFML compatibility layer that will decrease our compatibility with Adobe’s latest offering. Even if we choose to “deprecate” something, we mean simply that a better alternative exists . . . If you are a CFML developer you will be right at home with Lucee Language. Its got the same fundamental principles as CFML but with modern best practices, and language improvements built in.”
Daria Norris of SiteVision notes that: “The work LAS is doing with Lucee 4.5 is raising the standard for CFML programming. While it is still a beta, Lucee 5 gives us a glimpse into a future that includes ease of deployment, modern features and rapid language training and development.
About SiteVision: SiteVision, Inc. (www.sitevision.com) is an Internet application development, consulting, design and hosting firm providing solutions for a broad spectrum of markets and industries, as well as for state, federal and international entities. Expertise includes custom, back-end dynamic applications, consulting to achieve unique goals, geographic information systems (GIS), content management systems, hosting services including, map and GIS application hosting, as well as custom and dedicated hosting solutions.
SiteVision, Inc. participates in, or is available through, the following state and federal contracting vehicles, and is a SOC 1 SSAE 16 Type II compliant firm:
The firm has its home office in Roanoke, VA, with sales offices in Charlottesville, VA and Miami, FL.
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Roanoke, VA August 12, 2013: Hollins University of Roanoke, VA will soon be offering online, non-credit courses in creative writing that will fall under the umbrella of the well-known Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop. Users will be able to register and pay online for a variety of courses under the guidance of talented faculty members. SiteVision, Inc. will create the online registration and payment mechanisms to enhance the new offerings.
The online courses will offer fiction, poetry and nonfiction choices for those wishing to participate. Online registration will include registrant details, choice of workshop dates, fees, and, of course, and the choice of a specific workshop. SiteVision will create the necessary online forms and provide the ability for users to both register and pay online. There will be an administrative tier for email notifications of new registrants, as well as the ability to view and process registrations. The new capability adds to an already full-bodied system developed by SiteVision over the past 13 years for custom forms and applications that enhance registration for many other events, such as clinics, camps, athletics, alumnae connections, etc., and for donations and E-commerce requirements. A parent administration module provides form management as well the viewing and export of form data. 
SiteVision and city officials worked closely together to integrate the existing system to the now enhanced version. Among improvements, existing web application servers migrated to the more feature-rich ESRI ArcGIS server and Adobe Flex environments. New features include floating, pull-down menus to permit rapid switching between various base maps. The redesigned site also includes Google Map and Google Street views. Comprehensive mapping and real estate information includes property overview, images, assessments, sales history, flooding information, community attributes and incentives. Users may also print a full property report including images. 
The Community and Incentive Website Portals, a useful feature previously developed in cooperation with SiteVision, has been incorporated into the enriched site. Community information provides users with a summary of specific neighborhood information including school zones, voter precincts, trash collection, parks and recreation, neighborhoods and libraries. The incentive portal provides a summary of city, state and federal incentive programs available to a specific parcel.
Roanoke, VA May 29, 2013: The Central Virginia Waste Management Authority (CVWMA) has selected SiteVision, Inc. to further enhance its public website. The project is designed to improve customer experience when using the site, and will include expanded, specific jurisdiction information for events, recycling programs, locations, dates, recycling types and more.
Roanoke, VA April 18, 2013: Shenandoah Framing, Inc., a wholesale framing manufacturer of Lexington, VA, partnered with Sitevision, Inc. to create its new website. The firm’s updated presence implements a content management system (CMS) designed to allow publishing, editing and modifying content from a core interface.
Roanoke, VA March 16, 2013: In an innovative move some years ago, the Central Virginia Waste Management Authority (CVWMA) added an online support system for its customers in the Central Virginia area. The original system allowed CVWMA to manage all customer curbside requests for central VA. The system included the ability for customers to ask online about bin deliveries, missed pickups, info requests, email notification of scheduled pickups, recycling requests, reports, and the like.
Roanoke, VA January 24, 2013: The