I have seldom been a part of an online community that is less happy with itself or its vendors (Director users are the only users who moan louder):
The sky is falling is the tenor of most posts not about specific technical questions.
Look at all of the responses to Sean's point:
There are no CF jobs anywhere in the world.
Net is winning
MM sucks.
CF is too expensive.
Not much positive there.
But it is not (just) CF-Talk or CF-Community that suffers this way, it is the entire CF development world. We are for the most part a glass-is-half-empty crew. I think this is due to a lack of good press and a lack of a vocal evangelist (vocal to non-converts. Ben does a fantastic job with the converted, we just need more converted). I think it is largely perception, or tiredness, or lack of anything FUN or SEXY as part of CF. We've been doing the same stuff now for 5 or 6 years. There is not much we can do that others can't. Maybe we can do it faster, but where is the extra sizzle that you can only get through CF? Where are the smokingly cool examples every week we can pass on to our bosses or potential clients?
To bounce to a completely different thought, from my point of view, things have never been better.
Hosting of CF is cheaper and more stable than ever.
I personally have moved 10+ sites from plain htm to cfm this year.
I have built another 20+ using CF as a template generator and publish to plain htm (for those who think they need the $5.00/month hosting)
My current job was listed in the paper as a perl position. We also hired a Java expert and 5 htm coders since then. All are now 99% Cold Fusion in their daily tasks.
CF Studio 5 still works fine.
CFMX is a drastic improvement over CF5
CF-Community rocks (the people), and the help available on cf-Talk is as good as any other community on the web. Period.
Jerry Johnson
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