[...] Although I certainly don't base my tech decisions solely on market > influences I do think it's important to consider them. A person who > knows some XML is certainly more valuable in today's programming > market than they would have been 10 years ago (how old is XML > anyway?). In another 10 years that skill may have continued to become > more valuable or it may be less valuable due to increased supply of > programmers who are proficient with XML.
Hmmm. I see your point. Take it a bit further and add in the whole "global economy" type deal- and what's easier to transport than the Internet? once it's connected, so to speak... computers are pretty close to the internet. We're pretty close to computers... hmmm... I guess we shouldn't be to reliant on computers, neh? (-: Betamax probably would have looked pretty good at some point. [...] > There will always be work to be done, just like stuff > > will always be built on other stuff. The real meat and > > potatoes are in the "sum is more than the parts" type > > deals. I don't think language or popularity have much > > to do with it, sorta. > > I tend to agree. I think ColdFusion as a technology does a good job of > encouraging synergies. No doubt. It's like java, but even more fun. :-) I still put forth that generated code is generated code, why shy away from generated code? So long as it's well formatted (don't look at me, you saw my regex ;) you should be ok, I recon. But that's coming from someone who, using line breaks and MS Word, smashed several hundred pages of mish-mash into a C^HSV. They weren't commas, so I deleted the C, see? :P It would be a dream to get a bunch of pragmatically generated documents compared to that. Programs you can reverse engineer, whatnot. People are so random, sorta. [...] > > Note my use of "security" as "work" - as I believe > > "good people" automatically have the type of job > > security that most people talk about, and somehow > > conflate with "work". > > I'm not so convinced, although it's nice to think that would be the > case. Yeah, I know there are good people looking for work. Always. But there is always work for good people. Like you said, it pays to get the lay of the land, and take advantage of stuff when you can and what ever. We limit ourselves so much without even meaning to. Huxley was spot on there. Filters. It's always kind of scary to jump tracks, and I think we get it in our heads we want to do a certain type of work, so neglect opportunities elsewhere. But hey, as they say, you can always teach. [= > I'd rather see something like BETA win over VHS, > > than buy into the whole "economics of numbers" > > mentality. > > I remember being told that the US passed a trade embargo that > prevented Betamax from being sold in the US, which of course > artificially deflates the demand for BETA. I never researched it tho. I wouldn't doubt it, but it's also just part of evolution. Stuff that makes it is the stuff that makes it. It ain't the strongest or fastest or many of the easily predictable factors you would guess straight- off. Or it is, but that whole butterfly in Tibet or whatever, ya know? The right thing at the right time, and bang, you're father of some type of legacy. And conversely, some other legacy never occurs. I'm thinking posts of this nature probably belong on cf-community, inflammatory or no, but I haven't signed up. Frankly I'm a little afraid, as I can get all philosophical-like on "focused" lists, so hazy ones are, um, frightening. If it's more kosher I can manage to keep to more CF specific topics tho. Thanks for the improved regex. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:237331 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=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
