Thanks. I have pretty much settled on Flex for now. I have been plowing through tutorial after tutorial. It just amazes me how it does so much with 'so little' source. It's like learning CF all over again. Very exciting.
I hadn't heard of Grails. I will give that a look as well. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Corfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <cf-community@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 5:48 PM Subject: Re: Expanding skill sets - So, what's next? > 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:253859 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
