Hi Andrew, heh, I know exactly how you feel - contracting in melbourne isn't the best at the moment, we sit and watch jobs coming and going in perth, sydney, canberra, new zealand (?!) but very little here.
It can get a little depressing ;) but the indications are new levels of interest in cold fusion since the release of MX, and the takeup of things like cfmx for j2ee etc. Assuming enough people take it up, the combination of FlashMX/remoting, flashcomm server and CFMX is extremely compelling for a lot of big applications, and we're able to build things in a vastly shorter amount of time than rival technologies (not to mention that with flashcomm + cfmx we can build things we couldn't before without serious dev time in java or something similar). So I tell myself while rocking back and forth under my desk that it's getting better. This is always a bad time of year to be thinking about it, but we're starting to get more interest here in melbourne, and I think it's going to keep picking up. The war and niternational instability hasn't helped anybody's market either. That said it doesn't hurt to tack a few extra things onto your toolbelt either. PHP is an easy one to pick up alongside cold fusion if you've got time on your hands, but I wouldn't give up on CF just yet. i'd reccommend expanding your portfolio to the latest versions of CF, plus php and associated technologies definitely, and anything you can add like java etc is always worthwhile. cheers, Toby Friday, March 21, 2003, 11:54:09 AM, you wrote: AD> Another CFer (from Bris) was saying to me that contractor rates in AD> Brisbane suck, and things don't appear drastically different in the rest AD> of the country. This got me thinking .......... AD> Kinda depressing for a career development point of view. I've been doing AD> fairly low-level programming tasks in CF in this job for 18 months. AD> (Despite the tone of that sentence, I still seriously love my job - no, AD> I'm quite serious !). The natural step is to improve my CF programming AD> skills, at least as soon as the company finally decides whether to AD> purchase 5 or MX. AD> But I look at the number of apparently highly qualified and capable AD> programmers already out there, and the outrageous requirements for little AD> return in those cfjob ads (like "expert programmer in CF, ASP, SQL, and AD> ten different other things wanted for 4 weeks contract work in central AD> northern Queensland, must pay own relocation expenses"), and think, "is it AD> worth trying to progress?" . Perhaps I should do as my wife suggests, and AD> study pharmacy for a medium term career change! AD> Not that I want a change just yet, but the truism of continuous education AD> is particularly sharp in IT. AD> Thoughts ? Ravings ? AD> --- AD> You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AD> To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] AD> MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/ --------------------------------------- Life is poetry - write it in your own words. --------------------------------------- Toby Tremayne Technical Team Lead Code Poet and Zen Master of the Heavy Sleep Toll Solutions 154 Moray St Sth Melbourne VIC 3205 +61 3 9697 2317 0416 048 090 ICQ: 13107913 --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/
