... Said the person who sold $65,000 of his stuff to cover his bills. I feel for ya man. I really do.
I lost my house. EL. On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Sean Corfield <[email protected]>wrote: > > I know there was a smiley on that but I do feel compelled to respond > with a bit more personal background so folks have context... > > Last April I was let go from Broadchoice and essentially went > freelance. Yes, I head up Railo in the US but it's actually an unpaid > position as I build up the US consulting business - and so far I've > delegated almost all the Railo consulting to a handful of trusted > contractors. When I'm comfortable with the business operations, I'll > pay myself a salary. We pay our contractors, we sponsor conferences, > we do some marketing and we support core engineering to develop the > server (funded by our European business). > > So having been let go, I'm on Cal-COBRA and my wife then breaks her > ankle and is laid up for nearly two months and in a wheelchair for > nearly another two months. I'm focused on looking after her - and > doing very little consulting. > > We lived off our savings for a lot of 2009 and having to liquidate the > assets necessary to do that meant we lost about $17,000 due to > investments being down - on top of the nearly $65,000 we actually > liquidated to cover mortgage, car loans, medical bills ($11,000) and > so on. We were lucky we had savings so we didn't lose our home. > > All that said, my wife is a smart business woman and insisted I buy a > (much needed) new computer at the end of 2009 and understands that > software, books and conferences are important to my business. When I > drop a few hundred bucks on a piece of software to improve my > productivity, that's a reasonable business expense. > > With our personal loses in 2009, at least a tax refund is in our future! :) > > Sean > > On Wednesday, March 24, 2010, Eric Roberts > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Apparently not all of us make as much as you do Sean ;-) > > > > Eric > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Sean Corfield [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 2:38 AM > > To: cf-talk > > Subject: Re: ColdFusion Builder Released! > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Kris Sisk <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> $300 cheap for any software? What kind of Kool Aid have you been > drinking? > > > > Since folks have repeatedly referred to Dreamweaver as $300 let me > > correct them and point out DW is $399. Let me also remind folks that > > people seemed perfectly happy to pay $499 for ColdFusion Studio back > > in the day. So here's a CFML editor that does a helluva lot more than > > ColdFusion Studio and is much more code-centric than Dreamweaver (the > > biggest complaints I hear from CFers about DW) and now people are > > complaining that this much more powerful CFML editor is "too > > expensive" when it costs less than both the apparently beloved > > ColdFusion Studio and Dreamweaver (which had HomeSite+ - the re-badged > > CFS product - bundled with it for a while)?? > > > > Might I ask, WTF are you people smoking? :) > > > >> The issue is that we're already shelling out at least $1200 to Adobe for > a > > product that has free products as its chief competition. It would have > been > > wise, given that price tag versus the price tag of PHP (or even Railo) to > > give us a free, or at least inexpensive, IDE. > > > > Hey, I'm the CEO of Railo Technologies, Inc. - the US consulting arm > > of Railo - and I ponied up $299 of my own personal money on Monday > > night at 8:56p PST to buy ColdFusion Builder to use as my editor of > > choice for all my CFML projects (both Railo-based and otherwise). Why? > > Because I think ColdFusion Builder is the best CFML IDE available! > > > > Yeah, I'd hoped it would be $199 but when I saw it included Flash > > Builder 4 - which I may well use from time to time - I figured it was > > a true bargain and was only too happy to cough up my own dollars for > > something that will make me a more productive developer. > > > > I can't believe the complaining I've seen over the last 24 hours about > > $299... sheesh, folks probably could have earned $299 in the time > > spent complaining about it... and this from folks who happily spent > > nearly twice that on ColdFusion Studio... I just don't get it. > > -- > > Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > > Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://getrailo.com/ > > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > > > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > > -- Margaret Atwood > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:332222 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
