MARKETING MARKETING MARKETING!!! That's what the IT industry is all about. Buzzwords, the next big thing etc. That's where the good salaries come from for permie jobs.
As far as I'm concerned, I work for myself and don't employ anyone (except on a per-job basis where necessary). I recruit for that from friends whom I know and trust and who have shown that they have decent sklls. Should I have to delve into the job market now, I would certainly not advertise for a CF programmer. Why? CF is NOT a particularly difficult programming language. It's just not! To employ someone who actually has the skills to build websites and to produce decent code, would actually mean employing a coder with decent all-round skills who understands what OO really is, and why it's useful, and someone can actually code in more than one language competently. I just don't believe that CF is a particularly useful commodity. What else is required to be a decent CF programmer? Off the Top of my head: SQL Server/Oracle/MySQL (at the very least SQL and some experience using it) Web Server (pref Apache because it teached fundamentals whilst using it, but if not IIS) OO - pref Java (to allow GOOD writing of CFC's etc) Documentation and/or well written self-documenting code (obvious) Etc... It's by no means a complete list, but tbh it's something that puts a lot of CF programmers I've come across in the past out in the cold. Programming and Development are far less about languages and far more about development skills and the ability to learn. Just my 2p Paul -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
