RE: Depressed - Job Loss ... Job Gain

2005-01-21 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I've been seeing a sharp increase in NY area jobs which is great. Problem is, because most of the CF in the area has been 'hidden' for the last 4 years most of the programmers are either taken or just not present. I'm working on getting some programmers from my area and giving them some of my 10

Re: Depressed - Job Loss ... Job Gain

2005-01-21 Thread Aaron Rouse
Amazing how time flies, I had to sit here and think for a second as to when CF came out. We were one of Allaire's first customers for the product, for some reason I was thinking it had only been 7-8 years ago, but alas math is not my strong point(well this morning at least) because been at least

RE: Depressed - Job Loss ... Job Gain

2005-01-21 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Official release was July of 95 with a beta before that. That's officially 9.5 years and a max of 10 or 10.5 for those on the beta. I didn't get in until the end of the beta so it's not a full 10 years for me yet. But yeh, it's been a long time. Amazing how time flies, I had to sit here and

RE: Depressed - Job Loss ... Job Gain

2005-01-21 Thread Jeffry Houser
At 11:27 AM 1/21/2005, you wrote: But back to the thread, I think I'm going to start mentoring programmers from my community in CF and send them to some of these jobs. They have well over 10 years software experience so picking up CF should be easy. Add in my knowledge of it and they'll have the

Re: Depressed - Job Loss ... Job Gain

2005-01-21 Thread Simon Horwith
sounds like a candidate for eBay, Mike ;) ~Simon Simon Horwith CIO, AboutWeb - http://www.aboutweb.com Editor-in-Chief, ColdFusion Developers Journal Member of Team Macromedia Macromedia Certified Master Instructor Blog - http://www.horwith.com Michael Dinowitz wrote: I still have the

Re: Depressed - Job Loss ... Job Gain

2005-01-20 Thread Jeffry Houser
At 06:03 PM 1/20/2005, you wrote: I've recently been canned in a merger due to reasons pertaining to not getting up to speed with DotNet quick enough (company will no longer be using Cold Fusion, which I am at Advanced level of development), and stated they can find expert level DotNet developers

Re: Depressed - Job Loss ... Job Gain

2005-01-20 Thread Pete Ruckelshaus
Yeah, I've been there. I got laid from a 30 person (6 developer) company off at the end of August; I was a Sr. CF Programmer, lead UI guy, backup to the sysadmin and on alternating thursdays I played Banjo in the band. Turns out they were sold but hadn't made the news public, they were trying to

Re: Depressed - Job Loss ... Job Gain

2005-01-20 Thread Charlotte Dodge
Well - with all the CF Developers out there that are looking for work; I haven't been able to find too many in NJ. We have been looking for a CF Developer to join our company on a full-time permanent basis here in Eatontown, NJ. Haven't had much luck. If you or anyone you know that is an

Re: Depressed - Job Loss ... Job Gain

2005-01-20 Thread Charlotte Dodge
The position I just mentioned does not require long hours - typically, our Developers work about 40 hours per week - we believe in a life outside of work. So, please do contact me for additional information if you are an advanced CF Developer! 732-544-8454; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charlotte Griffin

Re: Depressed - Job Loss ... Job Gain

2005-01-20 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
The position I just mentioned does not require long hours - typically, our Developers work about 40 hours per week - we believe in a life outside of work. So, please do contact me for additional information if you are an advanced CF Developer! 732-544-8454; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charlotte