On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This actually echos something I have been observing in the CF > community for the last few years. When I first started doing CF > development work in the 90's there was alot of excitement among > developers. Alot of passion, and alot of young development. The CF > development crowd has ages, has wandered into other interests, and has > become significantly less passionate.
It's too bad about CFUnited. Many, many conferences have had huge difficulties in the last two years because of the economy. As for the CF community in general, lots of the older folks in the community have moved into management roles, or they have kids and lives outside work, or they just plain got tired of being so engrossed in things. I see plenty of young talent in the community, but there is huge competition for mindshare among people coming out of college. Mobile is clearly what has everyone under 25 jazzed right now. imagine if you could dial back the clock to the mid-90's and actually have a market of millions of people to sell all those great ideas to? That's what they have today in the mobile space, and that's not a space CF is directly involved in. Think Objective-C and Java, and soon AS3/Flex - that's where the action is if you are young, full of energy, unbound by family commitments, and can trade a decent salary for a shot at making millions of dollars on a single great idea for a mobile pho ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:322370 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
