On Feb 8, 2008 6:53 AM, Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking to expand my skill set. I already have the typical > CF/JavaScript/SQL/HTML/CSS/XML stuff, but there are still a lot of options. > > I am looking at Java, PHP, and .Net. I have used a little Flex and > Flash/Actionscript in the past, so they would be possibilities as well.
Flex is heavily in demand - if I was up to speed on Flex I could take on about twice the projects I'm doing right now and charge good money for it (well, if I had the hours to spare :) Java is a good skill - or C# / .NET - for more corporate, more enterprise-y roles. Depends where you want to go. PHP is popular but it is a nasty language and I'd be surprised if you could make decent money programming in it (folks often pick it because it's free and hosting is cheap so they're very budget conscious - I bet you won't get $100 / hour doing PHP but I know lots of people getting that - and more - for CF work). Ruby on Rails is still the darling for the Web 2.0 Startup crowd but to be successful there you have to be good. And Ruby is, in my opinion, a pretty ugly language with overuse of punctuation : @ => < etc instead of readable keywords (I'm opinionated about language design - my post-grad research was on language design back in the 80's and most of my decade as a software developer was spent building compilers and similar language-focused tools). Some people whose opinions I respect think Groovy and Grails is going to eat RoR's lunch and I certainly find Groovy's syntax much more palatable than Ruby's but I haven't done anything with Grails yet (I'm building it from source, just for fun, as I type this so I can experiment) and I've only dabbled with RoR. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:253858 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
