On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Robert Munn wrote: ... > It's too bad about CFUnited. Many, many conferences have had huge > difficulties in the last two years because of the economy. > > As for the CF community in general, lots of the older folks in the > community have moved into management roles, or they have kids and > lives outside work, or they just plain got tired of being so engrossed > in things. I see plenty of young talent in the community, but there is > huge competition for mindshare among people coming out of college. > Mobile is clearly what has everyone under 25 jazzed right now. imagine > if you could dial back the clock to the mid-90's and actually have a > market of millions of people to sell all those great ideas to? That's > what they have today in the mobile space, and that's not a space CF is > directly involved in. Think Objective-C and Java, and soon AS3/Flex - > that's where the action is if you are young, full of energy, unbound > by family commitments, and can trade a decent salary for a shot at > making millions of dollars on a single great idea for a mobile pho
Totally, dude. Mobile is the next twitter. :) Good stuff, Robert. :Den -- Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love. John Locke ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:322373 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm