I would also suggest that a developer not be single skilled. While clearly they cannot be expected to have mastery of every language, I suspect that many could well capable of being able to use several, in an applied sense. I would suggest that most developers would be capable of being competent more than just CF.
Also, it helps when answering questions about whether CF is better than, say, ASP for a particular task, to have some sort of applied knowledge of the two. Cheers > I would be cautious with the advice for developers > to become multi-skilled. In a perfect world, I > would be able to do a task in PHP, Perl, CF, ASP or > Java, but in the real world my head would explode > knowing everything there is to know about that. > Plus you stretch yourself too thin if you try to be > everything to everyone. > > I think the key here is that CF is starting to be a > bigger player, not because of the improved community > support (there were a lot of us who used CF when it > was Allaire's baby), but the fact that Macromedia > can put more into getting it known out there in the > big bad world of competition. That being said, > Microsoft loves they're idea of "competition," and > their name is much more prevalent, so when a not so > tech-savvy person wants a dynamic portal for the > company, the people who say Microsoft _whatever_ > will probably get noticed more than someone who says > Macromedia ColdFusion. > > We need to start touting good works done in CF, and > show what it can do for a client looking for a > dynamic content web site. If memory serves, CF > holds a slight advantage in price, but that cannot > be twisted to imply lack of feature or > functionality. > > For CF to dominate, we need to show what it can do, > how well it can do it, and then be able to answer > the question, "Why is this better than ASP (or > ASP.NET)?" It's an uphill battle, but one I think > this community and MM are willing to fight. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
