>> Not only am I selling myself, I also *have to* sell CF. Ain't that the truth. The sad fact is that CF and/or CF developers have a less than favorable reputation. I seen it and heard it all over the place *for years*. CF is not taken seriously in a lot of circles that I have traveled. Even though I have been developing in CF for about 10 years and it is my stack of choice, I often avoid mentioning that I am a CF developer in some professional circles because I am sick of seeing people roll their eyes or hearing things like Cf doesn't scale, Myspace doesn't use CF etc etc.
On a recent Yahoo chat I came to CF's defense "CF is a fine language". " The response was "And the punch line is?" And then I made a case for CF and I got clobbered. Yeah, Yahoo chatters are *ssholes... but the sentiment is there and it is pervasive. The fact is... I know CF is an amazing stack, *you* know it..But it seems that (good portion of) the rest of the IT world doesn't seem to think so. The more I learn languages like Java and C# the more powerful CF becomes to me. I mean I really love CF but damn if I don't take a lot of abuse for it. On Feb 5, 2008 4:41 PM, CFMike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a CF developer for many years, I often feel as if I work twice as hard > selling my services to a potential small-biz client, than the closest PHP > developer. Not only am I selling myself, I also *have to* sell CF. > > From my potential client's perspective, they really don't care much on how > easy it would be for me, the CF developer, to code their project. They do > care about (1) how much it will cost them on top of my fee; (2) how easy > it > would be to find help in case I am not available. > > We CF developers and zealots, of course, could make all the justification > in > the world to make the case of the points above in favor of CF. That is not > the problem. > > The problem is that, why do I, the CF developer, need to keep on selling > the > advantages of CF to my clients. Shouldn't Adobe work twice as hard to > reach > out to the small businesses, so developers like me don't have to sell it > (or > at least make my selling efforts as easy as the PHP, .NET or the RoR guy)? > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 12:10 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better > > > > >I'm not surprised. The big question continues to be "What can Adobe do > > >to promote ColdFusion?" CF gets press on releases, and Adobe has > > >actively and aggressively marketed toward the government IT sector for > a > > >few years now. I just want to see the articles that say "Yeah, we're > > >migrating from .Net to ColdFusion. It's just a much more dynamic and > > >integrated platform." > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:298282 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
