On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Dave Watts <[email protected]> wrote: > > But that's not even an attack! It's just good advice! It's the same > thing I'd tell anyone working with CF! Learning how other languages > work makes you a better developer, even if you're going to just use CF > most or all of the time.
And to reinforce what Dave just said...I stay active on cf-talk, the ColdBox list and the Railo list and I'm not even a CF dev by and large right now. Hell, I'm not even a developer for the most part, I'm managing a .Net engineering team. You know why I keep up on these lists and try to answer questions and read the threads? Because there are smart people that I can learn from. And new people that I can help. And when I read about Gems in a Ruby discussion, it makes me realize that I can use NuGet to do some cool things on our .Net projects. And when I look at how the ColdBox project is using environmental overrides and AOP in their projects, I realize that I can do some similar things with Unity or AutoFac in my .Net MVC stuff. And as I see the Akka project in Scala, I think about how cool it would be use to the Actor/Producer pattern in a CF framework and how it could be a really nifty open source project. Instead of lamenting the death of the ColdFusion, get out there and learn some other languages and bring the best of it back. And then go take the best of CF and spread the ideas to other languages. If you like being a programmer, stop bitching and go out there and do cool stuff, damn it. Judah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:348627 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
