I recently advertised a junior tester role.
129 applications, this is junior people with no real experience perhaps 1 year a uni degree. I didn't see ColdFusion listed as skill on a single one. Of all the people we have interviewed, we asked them about ColdFusion and they all said they have heard of it but never used it. One guy even said, hasn't that been replaced by .NET ColdFusion isn't going anywhere soon, but it has some serious issues with visibility and promotion. And after all these years, I have come to the conclusion that Adobe will never address these issues in a significant enough way to make a difference. Will be interesting to see if the Open Source BlueDragon makes a difference. Regards Dale Fraser <http://learncf.com> http://learncf.com From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of AJ Mercer Sent: Tuesday, 8 April 2008 10:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [cfaussie] Re: recruters say "CF on the way out"? ... FFS! not FUD from them too? Have a listen to the podcast on http://coldfusionweekly.com/ -> Vince Bonfanti - Open Source BlueDragon -> coming soon Gert Franz from Railo Technologies They have a few things to say about promoting CFML to the web community at large. On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:39 AM, barry.b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For almost 13 years Here! here! Michael. exactly the case. Tales of the demise seem grossly exagerated... I've got a few different skills under my belt, but I have absolutely no embarrisment that CF is featured amongst them** in fact, thanks to things like AIR and Flex, with support of the LCDS products, Adobe are finally starting to get a solid technology "stack" (top to bottom) happening. And CF riding on the coat-tails. (I overheard a PHP'er complaining that all the Flex examples were only written for CF - they obviously didn't look hard enough but also didn't like the shoe being on the other foot...) I can appreciate people moving larger apps to Java and whatnot but geez I feel much safer with CF skills than, say, Progress or Delphi or ... maybe I should have taken M@'s suggestion and pointed out the irony of the situation...? "I think the general feeling is that CF in Australia is on the way out. But for us that keep up to that on the global front know that it will be here to stay." I'm suggesting it's only a "feeling", not being realised by the actual situation. but I do (first hand) see some shifts in the teaching of I.T generally and Digital Media specifically. Enrollments in Australia are falling and yet they're expanding (bigtime) in Europe (and the US if FullSail is any guide). meh, I'm not worried. the world is full of Chicken Little's... b ** obviously not needing a spell checker isn't one of them... On Apr 8, 9:55 am, "Michael Dinowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For almost 13 years > > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Detect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Isn't CF in a constant state of being "on the way out"?- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- AJ Mercer Web Log: http://webonix.net --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
