Funny... I'm interviewing a promising CF candidate this afternoon in Sydney and flying to Melbourne tomorrow to interview two more. I'm working with experienced recruiters and they didn't seem to have too much trouble finding at least a few CF developers at short notice.
It's probably a case of sour grapes from the recruiters - they must have dreams where you say "What! Replaced by .NET? Oh, well then let's hire every .NET developer you have at outrageous rates, and I'll give you a huge tip for your deep, albeit untutored sagely insight into the future of web technologies". Actually I've found a leaked script from a recruiting agency that shall remain nameless, and I quote from pages 159-162: IF THE CLIENT SAYS: C: ... C++: ... COBOL: ... ColdFusion: OH! Wasn't that replaced by (d20): 1) .NET 2) Java 3) .NET Again 4) JSP 5) ASP 6) PHP 7) .NYET (Russian Developer Edition) 8) WebObjects 9) Ruby on Rails 10) Vista 11) Perl CGI scripts 12) Amazon Mechanical Turk and Russian HTML designers 13) Office 2008 14) Silverlight, Barnes Memorial Edition 15) Dreamweaver 16) .NET XXL Crinkle Free 17) MS-Linux 18) Frogger 19) The Windows Start Menu 20) .NET and the Kangaroo CORBA: ... Delphi: ... Cheers, Robin ROBIN HILLIARD Chief Executive Officer [EMAIL PROTECTED] RocketBoots Pty Ltd Level 11 189 Kent Street Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Phone +61 2 9323 2507 Facsimile +61 2 9323 2501 Mobile +61 418 414 341 www.rocketboots.com.au --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---