Taking developers from other backgrounds has been one of our strategies: http://riarockstars.com/2011/03/10/a-managers-take-on-the-state-of-cf-the-scarcity-talent/
The bare minimum effort to get something loosely working is way easier in CF vs. Java. Unfortunately the majority of CF developers leave their skills at that - thus finding true CF experts is extremely difficult. Advanced Java/.NET folk pick CF up in two seconds, and they bring their formal software development OO theory & design with them. So we don't even look specifically for CFers anymore, just strong developers in general. Though the flip side to that is Sr. developers of another language probably want to stick with their language of choice. So finding people who are in-between intermediate and sr. is the sweet spot. :) On 6/21/11 2:46 AM, Scott Brady wrote: > FWIW, I don't think it's that easy to become a "good" CF developer, either. > Yes, it's very easy to learn the language and it's easy to become > "competent" at it (i.e., being able to build something that works). But to > actually be "good" (best practices, advanced topics, etc.) isn't necessarily > simple. In fact, because it's so easy to get up and running, in some ways, > that might make it harder to become really good, because you don't need to > in order to get things done. > > Java is definitely much more complex -- especially for people just getting > started -- and more powerful. But, I believe that if you're someone who is > actually good at CF (i.e., you're actually a developer rather than a coder), > you can learn Java. > > Scott > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Mike Chabot<[email protected]> wrote: > >> I was saying the original statement is false since I would never trivialize >> the effort needed to become proficient in Java. Becoming a good Java >> programmer is not "easy," as the original statement was implying. >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:345519 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
