I'm considering moving back to Northern Virginia if the right opportunity presents itself. CF in the Raleigh/Durham area is almost non existent (job wise) I was laid off two weeks ago because my employer pushed everything to either Sharepoint or a new accounting system.
What's unfortunate is that I wasn't given the opportunity to plead my case, because I believe that they'll wind up spending more on Epicor and Sharepoint then what they were paying me per year. I believe that we as developers need to push and promote ColdFusion, and the open source versions (Railo, Open BD). I'm forever hearing .Net and PHP developers saying " our stuff is free and ColdFusion isn't". You can expound on the death of CF or you can get out there and promote. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Shelden [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:31 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Why i fear ColdFusion is on its last legs I think the availability of CF jobs depends a lot on how far you are willing to move and where you live. I lost my job at the end of October last year and I have not been seeing listed CF jobs around West Palm Beach, FL. I see plenty of job openings in the Northern Virginia area and jobs scattered around the country for those willing to relocate. I'm still looking for CF employment but I've started teaching myself .NET because there are a lot of .NET jobs available around where I live. I was speaking with a recruiter and she was telling me that she found it interesting how the job opportunities for different languages seemed to center around different geographical locations. She told me there were a lot of Java jobs in Dade County, FL (i.e. Miami) but they disappeared going north across the county line and then the demand started for .NET developers and some PHP (but not anywhere near the demand for .NET) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:329939 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
