On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Mike Kear <[email protected]> wrote:
> I know that's a 'Chicken Little" kind of subject line. I hope my
> impressions are wrong. Might be - i have been wrong before. I
> remember i was wrong once when i thought i was incorrect, but i wasnt.
Ah, Mike, how long's it been since your last "ColdFusion is dead" post?
> Contrast this with a few years ago when
> freelancers like me had jobs lined up one behind the other.
Contrast this with a few years ago when we weren't in the biggest
recession since... when? WWII? The Great Depression?
> [B] There is next-to no apparent activity in the Usergroups on
> coldfusion, at least as far as I've seen. Everyone's fussing about
> Flex and Flash and Railo and Ruby on Rails and no one's talking about
> ColdFusion.
OK, now you're the *fourth* person to say the same thing to me
today... What is up with user groups that I'm hearing this so much
lately?
I don't actually see it locally - there are three CFUGs within easy
driving distance for me and they're all active and have lots of
interesting (and CF-focused) talks. But I am hearing it from various
parts of the world. Is it a UG manager problem perhaps? i.e., nothing
to do with CF or Adobe specifically.
FWIW, I started looking for active PHP and Java groups (to do some
CFML marketing to) and had a hard time finding those. There's one
local PHP group but it doesn't seem very active and the only Java
group I could find in the area hasn't updated its website for ages and
hardly ever seems to meet.
UGs for Scala, Clojure and other "new" and/or "hot" languages do seem
to be more active - but that's because they're new tech for a lot of
people. CFML, PHP and Java have been around forever, they do their
jobs well and they're just... well, less interesting perhaps?
> [C] Adobe dont seem to be doing anything to promote ColdFusion here.
That's been a long-standing complaint since the Macromedia days
"{insert country here} gets no love". Adobe added a European
specialist (Claude Englebert) and were looking at how best to support
the APAC market - but these are not simple problems to solve and there
is no unlimited marketing budget.
> Boy i hope I'm wrong!
You are :)
The pool of CFers is constantly growing. Rates are still higher for
CFers than most other web technologies. There are more CFML
conferences and events than ever.
But there is a recession going on - and that hurts everyone.
--
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Railo Technologies US -- http://getrailo.com/
An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/
"If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive."
-- Margaret A
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