I use a site still called www.experts-exchange.com
It is a big forum with different areas you can ask questions and help others and you earn points. Earn enough points you get a ranking and they send you a T-Shirt. Now I'm top 10 all time in all CF categories, that is a result of how long I have been on it and I occasionally answer questions, but I'm not hard core. What is interesting, is that the people who are hard core in the CF areas people with 500k or 1m points have vanished over the past couple of years. Now they haven't stopped using the site, they have just gone into different areas, you can click them to see where they are posting / answering questions now. So I don't work for Microsoft, and this is just me relaying the stats of that site, but I can tell you that a lot of them have gone to .NET For example (not sure if you can see this without a login) http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Server_Software/Web_Servers/ColdFus ion/ The ColdFusion area, all time ranking mrichmon (1,346,158 points) Is now mainly posting in C# and ASP.NET areas. This trend is repeated for a lot of ex major ColdFusion people on this site. So there is defiantly merit in what Scott has said, I have seen it here and other places. With that said, while I think there is a trend of CF people moving to .NET. It's not something I would consider unless I thought that Adobe were going to drop ColdFusion, as .NET compared to ColdFusion is just hard work. Even Scott might agree with that. ColdFusion is a good product with a bad rep and historically bad marketing. Regards Dale Fraser -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Beattie Sent: Tuesday, 8 April 2008 11:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [cfaussie] Re: recruters say "CF on the way out"? ... FFS! not FUD from them too? it's probably worth remembering that Barnes has cut CF code a lot longer than he's been wearing an MS-logo'd jacket. so when he says "...I think the skill shortage in Australia is what's driving this perception, my advice is to get back out there, hit the pavements and start stimulating the CF Community again." there's a fair bit of thought behind it. you can't beat "vibe" for creating groundswells and getting a scene happening. Whether it's "Kevin07" (or "It's Time" back in 1972) or the Pepsi taste challenge or the promo for the Blair Witch Project, if you haven't a vibe you just don't exist these days. that thread I threw up this afternoon about "cfqueryparam 101"? - it was an Ad (a very subtle one) advertising one of the many things that the local user group can do to help people become better at their craft, keep their skills up, have longeviy in the industry, etc. Advertising the local CFUG for tonight (not expecting one extra person to show, but at least it gets the name out there). Also pointing out that there's CFUG's all around the region. From Andrew Mercer in Perth to David Harris in NZ and people like Steve Onnis, Mark Mandel, Chris Velevitch, Kai Koenig, Darren Tracey - Dale, you're in there helping too. you can stumble across all sorts of interesting things at CFUG's - tonight for example it was about CF, LCDS and data management, presented by a guy in the U.S who was up at 5:00am to present. http://quetwo.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/speaking-at-the-queensland-cfug-tomor row/ not your cup of tea? well, what is? and what are you going to do about it? People who don't contribute to the CF community shouldn't be too quick to bitch and moan about the lack of CF profile. two ways to help: - actively drive the agenda of your local CFUG: don't just be a passenger, but help set the direction to what you think would make it better - and then help make it happen. - contribute to open-source apps/code. Ray Camden's blogCFC is almost ubiquitous but it's still not the "foot in the door" that PHPNuke created for PHP (or many of the other PHP-based apps). FarCry's there waiting to be used, etc. On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:06 PM, CyberAngel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > *LOL* > > > > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of M@ Bourke > Sent: Tuesday, 8 April 2008 9:05 PM > > To: [email protected] > Subject: [cfaussie] Re: recruters say "CF on the way out"? ... FFS! not FUD > from them too? > > > > > > Sorry yeah forgot, he now owns the whole .Net platform :) > and will soon become head of the new small department they'll have within > the Microsoft basement, new little department will be called Yahoo!!, just > to be cool MS will give Yahoo! 2 "!'s" so its Yahoo!! > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
