RE: CF is Dead. Was well kids... its time for my first

2012-02-08 Thread Jacob
I could not image moving our site from CF to anything else. We have been using it since I started here back in 1997. -Original Message- From: Medic [mailto:hofme...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 1:28 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: CF is Dead. Was well kids... its time

Re: CF is Dead. Was well kids... its time for my first

2012-02-07 Thread Sam
Sadly that's what I'm seeing too. C# here I come. . On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Medic wrote: > > CF isn't dead... but for all intents and purposes it's dead to me and my > department. I have too much trouble finding staff and it's not really being > taught much to the next gen of devs. It's

Re: CF is Dead. Was well kids... its time for my first

2012-02-07 Thread Medic
Yes, I could do all those things. Unfortunately the question is, yeah but why bother? There's not really anything that CF can do that others can't, and if I need to spend dollars on cross training and face the uphill battle with clients to convince them of the merits of cf ultimately I end up in t

Re: CF is Dead. Was well kids... its time for my first

2012-02-07 Thread Larry C. Lyons
If you can handle remote developers there is always that option, I know a lot of CF developers would would give their left nut to work remotely (OK maybe not that much). Alternatively cross train .net, java or php developers. On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Medic wrote: > > CF isn't dead... but

Re: CF is Dead. Was well kids... its time for my first

2012-02-07 Thread Medic
CF isn't dead... but for all intents and purposes it's dead to me and my department. I have too much trouble finding staff and it's not really being taught much to the next gen of devs. It's still my go-to language if I do side work, but I don't try to sell it as a solution to clients. I gave up t

Re: CF is Dead. Was well kids... its time for my first

2012-02-07 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Yes but consider who is writing it. He has a bit of a conflict of interest it would seem. On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Jacob wrote: > > I was just reading the top 10 dying IT skills for 2012 from Global > Knowledge. ColdFusion made the list... again. > > -Original Message- > From: La