Both technologies would be substantial shifts from what a CF programmer is used to. Both .NET and Java benefit from having a college education in engineering / computer science, or the equivalent years of experience, since both are have high learning curves. Another technology to learn is Adobe Flex, which is a fantastic emerging technology that you would be able to use to complement existing CF Web sites while learning. Adobe Flex also involves a substantial shift in thinking, but you would be able to reuse your CF knowledge to power the database interactions, since Adobe Flex is only the UI layer.
-Mike Chabot On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Chris Johnson<u...@askugg.com> wrote: > > With the economy and market as it is, and with current employment's stability > starting to wiggle, I'm being forced to investigate other options. > > I was curious what the group's thoughts were on the two above technologies > and which would be easier/more natural to move into. > > Not intending to abandon CF at all, but this is a time where flexibility will > be key and I'd like to be able to spread a wider net should job seeking > become a factor again. Through a couple early searches, there are a few > opportunities that list CF as a *PLUS*, while the core competency is either > .NET or JAVA. > > I've looked into .NET a bit, but it seems that for someone with no access to > anything on a large scale (Sharepoint, etc.), there's only so far you can go > learning .NET in your basement. There's also the factor of ".NET" not being > ONE language, but a combo of several techs rolled into one. I'm curious if > .NET, while a web development language, might just look easier to the > inexperienced eye? > > JAVA is a different beast altogether, but seeing as I've been making use of > some JAVA in CF7 and CF8 a little here and there, it seems like it would be > somewhat familiar at least in the critical getting started phase. > > > Thoughts? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:325377 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
