And you would get real satisfaction for a longer period out of purely maintaining... seriously? I think you will get bored pretty soon if you have to work like a patchrobot day in day out. Maybe some oil on the fire, but it is never too late to invest some of your time into other products. I know, some people seem to have a dislike against it, but playing with C# (VB.NET is dead) might help your career and provides you with a different vision and the abilities to approach problems in a different way. Same counts for Java. Going from Java to C# is easier than going from C# to Java so keep that in mind. It might look a bit abstract but once you know the basics of the IDE and the language, you quickly end up playing with code in the late hours. It just depends on wether you are interested. It has no negative sides, besides that you start to get annoyed by differences. Just some food for thought.
________________________________ From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 4/18/2005 8:38 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: macromedia and Adobe?! > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 2:23 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: macromedia and Adobe?! > > Not meaning to be rude, but don't you think that investing all of your > effort in one skill is turning out to be a bad idea? What happens if > Adobe/MM DOES kill off ColdFusion? Where will you be? This is not about > me I'll never defend all your eggs in one basket... but in the worst case scenario: ColdFusion is discontinued. Dead. No more development. NewAtlanta explodes in a shower of icy death. No more supported CFML. There are still ColdFusion applications - lots of them - out there. They will need to be maintained, extended, etc. I've got a friend that makes a fine living doing nothing but Tango development. Another making a not so fine living doing nothing but FileMaker development. We've still got people doing nothing but Cobol and PowerBuilder maintenance. All of us CFers wouldn't be supported by the remaining work, but many could be and a few could be for the rest of their lives. It takes a looooong time for even a moderately successful technology to completely die. (Still the more likely scenario is that NewAtlanta would expand it's base becoming the only stable supporter of CFML. It could also be likely that, with pressure, the CF source could be released as an Open Source product. Of course the most likely scenario in my mind is that nothing of any real importance will happen to CF at all.) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:203388 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
