Hello Daryl, I did check the web site and I see that Ruby is doing really well. But I wonder, how does oDesk compute its trends? You also have to consider that ColdFusion is well known in the United States but not as much in other parts of the world. For instance, Ruby is well known in Asia, U.S. and parts of Europe so trends for Ruby is logically higher to those of other languages like ColdFusion. So I am curious as to how oDesk.com is calculating its trends and what its taking into consideration. If we take PHP into consideration, it is widely used throughout the world so I assume that its trends are among the highest. Just because outsourcing is stronger for other languages does not mean that CF is not as strong. The market for CF in the U.S. is one of the bests and it pays really well. I know people getting paid about 100k. There are also jobs throughout the country. If you consider outsourcing, then you may want to use PHP.
Thanks for sharing this info though. Just my $0.02, Ravi. Daryl James wrote: > Hi, my name is Daryl and I'm with oDesk. I don't necessarily have a clear > answer to your question on future direction, but as an outsourcing site, we > generally get a good idea of trends in their early stages, so, if you're > interested and wish to keep an eye on ColdFusion trends, please feel free to > visit http://www.odesk.com/trends/coldfusion to see what's happening in the > outsourcing marketplace as far as CF is concerned. > > Not sure if you've considered looking into other languages, but there's also > a good article over on our blog about what's in demand right now and is > likely to continue to be over at > http://www.odesk.com/blog/2008/12/stay-employed-web-developer-skills-in-most-demand-php-ajax-mysql/. > I hope this helps. Best of luck. > - Daryl James > oDesk > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-jobs-talk/message.cfm/messageid:4141 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-jobs-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.11