I'll second Todd (except for the going-over-to-ASP part ::shudders at the thought!::)
I should've gone with my instincts and gotten into a good ole fashion whoopass smack down with that skinny Macromedia woman who ripped the notice about the community suite from the bulletin board as I was reading it. Talk about childish. We're behind you 100% Mike! Katie ***who wants to form a commission for cflurkers whose main purpose is to covertly pass around info about cf_community events at Macromedia sponsored programs. Just think of us as Todd's (or whomever is elected cf-president) CIA. --- Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Come on Michael .. cheer up :) > > If they wanna be asses, let them. If they wanna go > the cast iron corporate > route, let them. If they wanna alienate the people > that made Allaire (and > its product line) attractive enough to buy, let > them. > > We are all intelligent, educated developers .. some > with great influence in > respect to their company's purchasing decisions. > The 'CF community' on this > list is more than a 'CF community'. We are a > community of web developers. > CF / PHP / JSP / ASP / Perl / whatever .. a > particular language doesn't make > a community .. the people do. If we all suddenly > switched to ASP tomorrow, > we would still be the same community, though a bit > confused ;). If MM can't > understand this, then .. well .. I guess they won't > care if we move on. > > My employer, the fastest growing MS training company > in the world, is rather > interested in moving to ASP.Net. I've recently been > kinda fighting this by > volunteering 3 hours a night teaching people CF and > Fusebox. I'm personally > pushing for an investment in CF 6, and myself and > the lead graphics designer > are eager for a partnership with MM in training and > development with Flash, > Ultradev, etc. Upper management is listening. > > I still have a certain loyalty to MM, but if they > keep this arrogance > towards their own 'development community' up, I will > withdraw my support > from them and Neo completely, and throw my full > support towards MS' fare. I > won't be happy about jumping to an MS web > development product, but ... > > Anyway, my point is, I don't care what web dev. app. > I use, I'll always > consider myself a part of this community and I hope > everyone else will still > consider me a part of it too. > > No matter what, I'm behind you all the way, Mr. D. > :) > > As the next President, I am officially appointing > Michael D. Secretary of > Commerce *and* Secretary of Smacking Around Dumb > Companies. > > Todd > ----- > Todd for President > Seriously considering nuking MM, (get out soon RC .. > any true Star Wars fan > doesn't deserve to be nuked!), for a better > tomorrow. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Dinowitz" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 4:25 PM > Subject: Re: House of Fusion Picture Gallery > > > > The picture upload is set so that if you don't > have an account when you > add > > a picture, it adds one for you. I've been wanting > to upgrade this > > desperately but as Judith mentioned, I'm not > exactly in a great mood at > > this time. I'll get back to writing and creating > as soon as I can. or not. > > http://www.houseoffusion.com/users/ > > > > At 01:31 PM 11/19/01, you wrote: > > >I just spoke to Michael on the phone. You may > have noticed that he's not > > >been posting to the list for the last few weeks. > Since Devcon, he's been > in > > >a deep depression -- It has to do with > Macromedia's trying to sabotage > the > > >Community Suite. I have been trying to help, but > to be honest, I don't > know > > >how to get him out of this funk. > > > > > >He said he would respond because I had asked, > when he has a second. > > > > > >Judith > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
