Barry,

Exactly, and I had this discussion with Macromedia 3-4 years ago and they
did not seem to care. Their attitude was sales is going strong and that is
all that they cared about.

We here are needing J2EE developers, and we are struggling on that issue so
it's not just Coldfusion.

But the question is: What comes first the Chicken or the Egg.

And I would be all for mentoring new people, but we also need the work to do
so as well. Currently in the process of fighting for my future as a
Coldfusion developer, because I am being asked to be trained into J2EE
development at my work.

But the huge problem is the cost of Coldfusion, and we have a massive
project on the go at the moment that would have been great to have written
in CF but the cost for setting up the Infastructure for an Enterprise
solution meant we did not even consider coldfusion for the work. And its
this type of thing that is killing the technology.

That is the problem...


Andrew Scott
Senior Coldfusion Developer
Aegeon Pty. Ltd.
www.aegeon.com.au
Phone: +613  8676 4223
Mobile: 0404 998 273



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From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Barry Beattie
Sent: Monday, 25 June 2007 12:19 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [cfaussie] Re: CF Job, going down in Australia?


the real trick is to sustain it.

by having not enough CF people runs the risks of projects moving to
other platforms. One thing in favour in this not happening is that
everyone else is having grief finding people too (just try and find
some Java programmers).

but as current CF programmers move on to other areas (management,
other languages, Flex, etc) one wonders where "new blood" will come
from. Watch the increase of poaching over the coming months as things
get tighter.

Anyone reading this: suggest a "train a graduate" program to your
boss. Perhaps a mentoring program.

eh, my 2c. Your milage may vary
barry.b



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> And plenty in UK as well, even south of London... ;-))
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> > I have noticed that there are heaps of roles advertised at the moment in
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> > Hi:
> > I heard CF job opportunity is going down in Australia? Is it right? Is
> > it .Net which taking its place?
> > CF popularity was very high someday in Australia. What happend?
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