You guys looking for any remote developers Andy? I am in Chicago... Eric
-----Original Message----- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:li...@commadelimited.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 8:18 AM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Why i fear ColdFusion is on its last legs Could it be perhaps that you're not looking in the right locations for these jobs? I'd guess that a portion of it is that CF developers aren't moving positions, which means that the positions that ARE out there are currently filled. While that could also mean that there's no growth in CF, it most likely means that the economy is bad and no one is hiring period. On the other hand my company in Nashville TN has hired 2 CF developers in the last 3 months and is looking to hire 2 more. Take from that what you will. Andy Matthews Dealerskins -----Original Message----- From: Mike Kear [mailto:afpwebwo...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 7:18 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Why i fear ColdFusion is on its last legs Interesting, John. Actually of those 32 jobs om Australia, 4 are in Sydney, the biggest city in the country, One is for a .NET developer and exposure to Coldfusion would be an advantage, Another is for a FLASH developer with some exposure to Coldfusion. So those two arent really coldfusion jobs. So that leaves 2 jobs in a city of 4.5million people. One of those isnt really a coldfusion job - its coldfusion related - they're looking for a front-end developer in a web agency that uses coldfusion for their dynamic pages. let's say its half a coldfusion job. That means there are 1.5 coldfusion jobs according to Indeed.com.au. It's a paradox, but I think Andrew's right - the ColdFusion sites are steadily changing to other technologies - .Net or php mostly or java for the larger ones. At least that's my perception. Last year i had my 3 biggest clients tell me they weren't doing any more development in Coldfusion - they were switching to .NET in two cases, and Java in the other case. I'm not trying to whine and say Adobe should solve all my problems. But it is a worrying trend, and I'd like to know what (if anything) is being done to reverse it. Right now, it seems no one really is putting too much effort into creating new ColdFusion sites, at least here in Sydney. From what I see anyway. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:53 PM, John M Bliss <bliss.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Surely most of the people who read Mike's original message do not live > in Australia and do not have first-hand knowledge of the state of CF there. > However, Mike's subject was not "Why i fear ColdFusion is on its last > legs in Australia" and several of his points seemed to be non-Australia-specific. > > http://www.indeed.com.au/jobs?q="coldfusion"+or+"cold+fusion"; > > ...returns 32 jobs: 1 CF job for every 691,348 Australians. > > http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q="coldfusion"+OR+"cold+fusion"; > > ...returns 2,644 jobs: 1 CF job for every 116,688 Americans. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:329951 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
