Had to chime in here. Been around since CF2.0, and done enough other stuff to know CFML still is the cool kid on the block-- as long as you hang w/ the nerds. You can't knock out anything as fast with anything else- and there's no limit to it's power if you're even slightly creative. The problem it faces, and we face, as members of a shrinking number of cfml developers is perception. I think everybody here knows that. But when you don't have zillions of dollars to promote your inferior and inherently unstable technologies that don't even work well with your own stuff...along with a large legal staff to outright prohibit open info exchange regarding your products... What are you to do? Grass roots evangelization? Inject more hype? Perhaps optionally changing the file extension to .net and hope someone sues... that will get some buzz. Obscuring file extensions like we're ashamed isn't a good thing ( Not knocking anyone who admits this because I have considered doing it more than once to get a project. ) Fact is cfml is not cool with people not in-the-know. Getting them in the know is the only way to counter the graying of the community. These are people who are unacquainted w/ CFML and often new to development. There needs to be more focus on the new people to draw them in. Impress them with the power and ease of use. The vast majority of these people are going to be developing on windows-- and on current versions of the incarnation, 8 & 8.1. I believe an emphasis on ready-to-run type installers fully compatible with "the latest technology" and some pre-installed demo apps that give that newbie the WOW factor he's not going to find with the Studios. These people, showing up the next morning with a working prototype of an idea discussed yesterday afternoon, will foster the investment in this awesome, well proven, technology.
I'm just sayin'... -- -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Open BlueDragon" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
