Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-09 Thread s. isaac dealey
> Isaac you are insanely smart and you know it... quit rubbing it in. ;) Heh... it's funny, I actually have a mild complex that makes me worry that others perceive me as being egotistical. The other article prior to this one, the Devil Went Down to Silicon Valley, I've edited once or twice after p

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-08 Thread Gerald Guido
Isaac you are insanely smart and you know it... quit rubbing it in. ;) Whirled peas, G On Feb 8, 2008 8:05 PM, s. isaac dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Paul Graham says we should all learn a language a year. Lets make > > this the year we tell our critics to master Coldfusion or stop > >

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-08 Thread s. isaac dealey
> Paul Graham says we should all learn a language a year. Lets make > this the year we tell our critics to master Coldfusion or stop > criticizing it! I guess that would mean I'd have to learn Ruby pretty soon. http://ontap.riaforge.org/blog/index.cfm/2008/2/8/Maintainability Doh! -- s. isaa

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-08 Thread s. isaac dealey
> I have to agree. Isn't it about time we all got "a little" smug? As long as I don't have to use words like "playa hater" and "represent". There's nothing sadder than an egg-headed gen-x post-hippie white-guy like me trying to "talk street". When I do it somebody really should be mimicking the F

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-08 Thread Russ
Isn't that because the price of dollar really fell? Or is that equivalent to inflation? Russ > -Original Message- > From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 1:26 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just D

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-08 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Mark Fuqua wrote: > It is interesting, that while the developer community has been belly achin' > about prices for cf, Adobe has actually raised the price for enterprise 50%. You just have an inflation problem, for people outside the US the price has gone down. Jochem ~~

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-08 Thread Rick Mason
I think sometimes we sulk off to places like here and complain when someone says "CF is dead." I used to think it wasn't dignified to duke it out with some of the fanboys. But I have changed my mind. So now I have made it a point to challenge these guys sometimes. I took the time to learn Rails

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-08 Thread Todd Rafferty
I have to agree. Isn't it about time we all got "a little" smug? On Feb 8, 2008 10:13 AM, Ryan, Terrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I feel the desire to jump in and defend Adam here. > > It's definitely a different tone the we're used to. But we talk about how > ColdFusion gets bashed on Digg

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-08 Thread Ryan, Terrence
I feel the desire to jump in and defend Adam here. It's definitely a different tone the we're used to. But we talk about how ColdFusion gets bashed on Digg and it isn't attracting new developers. Having someone who speaks in the same tone as those audiences isn't a bad thing. If you want g

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-08 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 07 Feb 2008, Raymond Camden wrote: > Shoot, as it stands, CF is "more" free as you don't have to be a > student to run it on your own machine for nothing. See my (unanswered) post last week, about what CFML engines are free to use in production (i.e. without limits like 3 IP address,

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-08 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 08 Feb 2008, Gerald Guido wrote: > Personally I do not want an "Evangelist" for my stack of choice who uses > terms like "PHP and open sores fanboys" in the about section of his blog. Depends on context. I do want someone promoting CF who thinks PHP isn't enterprise-ready, for instance.

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-08 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 07 Feb 2008, Russ wrote: > customers. If enough developers feel that this is a good idea and make > their voice heard, perhaps Adobe will reconsider it. I think they've heard, considered, and rejected. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to simultaneously unleash world-class design-patterns on

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Craigsell
http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/editions/#s4 Developer edition is free. All that's left is the will to learn. I'll bet that as Adobe merges more applications together like the are doing now (LiveCycle, CF, Flex, etc.) and make everything PDF compatible, the market share will increase.

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread s. isaac dealey
> Correct. However there is a direct relationship between interest and > getting a job. I was responding to a comment about (paraphrase) "Adobe should do something to improve adoption amongst SMB because they'll sell more licenses". So yup, agree with you there -- but I wasn't arguing against thi

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Gerald Guido
>> I do however take issue with craigslist being used as a benchmark for determining the interest in ColdFusion and the assumption that there is a direct relationship between interest and profitability. Correct. However there is a direct relationship between interest and getting a job. On Feb 7

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Aaron Rouse
, 2008 4:38 PM, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:32 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better &g

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread s. isaac dealey
> > No, I'm pretty sure it was introduced in 4.x. I seem to recall it > was > 4.0.1, but I'm not entirely sure. > > I bet Ben Forta could tell us half asleep with both eyes closed. > He's a master of random CF version history factoids. :) I should hope so! He's been the product evangelist sinc

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Aaron Rouse
t; Russ > > > -Original Message- > > From: Aaron Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:21 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better > > > > As a student you typ

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread s. isaac dealey
> But guess what? There's not a whole lot of small-biz/enterprise > asking CF by name. And I don't think anyone here will dispute that. > If you check out craigslist, dice, monster, etc... demand for PHP > developers far out number demand for CF developers. If you dispute > that, you are in denial

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Dave Watts
> I don't know either. Perhaps because you have invested > heavily in CF like many of us here? I am more invested in the defense of common sense. I think that the people who are complaining about how Adobe isn't giving CF away, or getting it into schools, etc, have unrealistic expectations about

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Gerald Guido
>>> I don't know why I bother responding to these threads, though. I don't know either. Perhaps because you have invested heavily in CF like many of us here? >> People have been griping about CF pricing/marketing/evangelism since it was an Allaire product. True. However, ColdFusion taught me the

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Brad Wood
> No, I'm pretty sure it was introduced in 4.x. I seem to recall it was > 4.0.1, but I'm not entirely sure. I bet Ben Forta could tell us half asleep with both eyes closed. He's a master of random CF version history factoids. :) ~Brad ~~

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread William Seiter
- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:18 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better > Correct me if I am wrong, but hasn't CFSCRIPT been around > since CF 3 (1997) No, I'm pretty sure it was introdu

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Dave Watts
> Correct me if I am wrong, but hasn't CFSCRIPT been around > since CF 3 (1997) No, I'm pretty sure it was introduced in 4.x. I seem to recall it was 4.0.1, but I'm not entirely sure. The ability to write functions in CFSCRIPT wasn't introduced until CF 5, though. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Softw

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Todd Rafferty
On Feb 7, 2008 5:38 PM, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CFC's are largely a new language that was totally not available in 4.5 and > so are functions. I don't remember when CFSCRIPT was added, but that's > pretty much a new language. > If you can run a CF 4.5 site that contains mostly includes

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Todd Rafferty
Er.. I meant to say, if you "can't" - sorry... distracted by the better half. On Feb 7, 2008 6:05 PM, Todd Rafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 7, 2008 5:38 PM, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > CFC's are largely a new language that was totally not available in 4.5and > > so are fun

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread William Seiter
Correct me if I am wrong, but hasn't CFSCRIPT been around since CF 3 (1997) >CFC's are largely a new language that was totally not available in 4.5 and >so are functions. I don't remember when CFSCRIPT was added, but that's >pretty much a new language. -- William E. Seiter Have you ever rea

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Dave Watts
> Largely compatible does not mean compatible. I had to make a > bunch of changes just upgrading from 7 to 8. I'm sorry to hear that. However, the vast majority of syntax is the same, and there are plenty of CF applications written for 5 and earlier that will simply run, as is, on CF 8. And, o

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Russ
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:32 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better > > > I would guess the same thing that happened to CF 4.5, which I

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Dave Watts
> I would guess the same thing that happened to CF 4.5, which I > would consider to be the ASP classic of those days. It got > upgraded to newer and better things. CFML written for a 4.5 server is largely compatible with CF 8. I just upgraded a CF 4.5 server to CF 8. "Classic" ASP doesn't use t

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Russ
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:19 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better ---snip--- > > I don't know why I bother responding to these thre

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Dave Watts
> You keep saying that Adobe is targeting the enterprise. Most > enterprises I know are not using ColdFusion, and are using > .NET because .Net is more "enterprisey". If they have money > and want to invest in the JAVA technology, they will go for > something like Websphere. I didn't say th

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Matt Quackenbush
On Feb 7, 2008 3:26 PM, Dave Watts wrote: > > So, what is Adobe doing so the freelance developers like me > > have MORE customers that ask Coldfusion by name? > > It isn't Adobe's job to make you successful at your business. That's your > job. > > Personally, I would love to see Adobe doing all so

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Russ
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:26 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better > > > The more small-biz/enterprise ask CF by name equals The more &

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Dave Watts
> The more small-biz/enterprise ask CF by name equals The more > jobs are for CF developers equals The more developers are to > take on CF (versus PHP,RoR,.NET) equals The more small-biz > ask CF by name equals The more Adobe sells CF servers This is not necessarily true. Especially the last pa

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Brad Wood
ssage- From: Aaron Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 2:21 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better As a student you typically do not have to pay to be able to put up a hosted PHP page. Most universities give the

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Mark Fuqua
than cf standard. Mark -Original Message- From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:42 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better We have seen an official response: http://www.adobe.com/products/cold

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Dave Watts
> That would require a classroom with powerful enough computers > that can run CF. That's a pretty large investment. I know > in my university, all the students have laptops, so it would > be a lot easier to have a shared server and have all of the > students put their work there. CF will

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Mike Francisco
As a freelance developer (I am sure many on this list are), my simple mind that tells me that 'to CF or not to CF' boils down to this cycle: The more small-biz/enterprise ask CF by name equals The more jobs are for CF developers equals The more developers are to take on CF (versus PHP,RoR,.NET) eq

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Will Swain
We have seen an official response: http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/buy/ :) Will -Original Message- From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 February 2008 19:57 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better > > Not anyone who

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Raymond Camden
On Feb 7, 2008 2:29 PM, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That would require a classroom with powerful enough computers that can run > CF. That's a pretty large investment. I know in my university, all the > students have laptops, so it would be a lot easier to have a shared server > and have all

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Todd Rafferty
Setup a start/stop bat script to turn things off when you're not in class? I think server setup SHOULD be part of the class IMHO. On Feb 7, 2008 3:29 PM, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having each student install CF and IIS or apache on their own PC might be > a > bit of a pain, and laptops in

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Dave Watts
> If all of this has been heard before, should've we have seen > an official response to this somewhere? What would you expect their response to be, other than "we'll consider this?" Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Training: Adobe/Google/Paperthin Certified P

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Russ
y, February 07, 2008 3:21 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better > > As a student you typically do not have to pay to be able to put up a > hosted > PHP page. Most universities give their students free web accounts and > most >

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Russ
> > Not anyone who's going to tell you how to run your business, no. But you > know that Ben Forta and the rest of the product evangelists are plugged > into > this list and other well-known CF resources, so presumably someone at > Adobe > has heard all of these criticisms before. > If all of t

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Aaron Rouse
As a student you typically do not have to pay to be able to put up a hosted PHP page. Most universities give their students free web accounts and most of those accounts have access to PHP. At least that has been my experience with three major Universities here in Texas. There are of course limit

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Russ
y, February 07, 2008 3:17 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better > > > Another important thing about running a business is listening > > to your customers. If enough developers feel that this is a > > good idea

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Dave Watts
> Another important thing about running a business is listening > to your customers. If enough developers feel that this is a > good idea and make their voice heard, perhaps Adobe will > reconsider it. That might be true in many cases. However, you're essentially asking them to give something

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Russ
> -Original Message- > From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 1:56 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better > > > If someone from adobe sat down with me and gave me some >

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Raymond Camden
Flex is client side technology. Guess what - the "client" for CF, which would be you running CF on your own machine, is also free. Shoot, as it stands, CF is "more" free as you don't have to be a student to run it on your own machine for nothing. Now your argument stating that you would only learn

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Dave Watts
> If someone from adobe sat down with me and gave me some > constructive criticism on my business, I would definitely > take it under consideration. What makes you think that, over the last ten years that people have been arguing about this, Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe didn't take it under consider

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Russ
8 1:11 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better > > > > All the evidence we can gather points to the fact that Allaire, > > > Macromedia and now Adobe are profitable with the ColdFusion pricing > > > model exactly as

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Josh Nathanson
> If they are making good money on it, and it's mostly from the enterprise > sector, wouldn't it make sense to let the educational institutions have it > for free? This way enterprise would have a better pool of talent, and are > more likely to get CF/stick with CF in the coming years. I don't ha

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Dave Watts
> > All the evidence we can gather points to the fact that Allaire, > > Macromedia and now Adobe are profitable with the ColdFusion pricing > > model exactly as it stands. So, there's very little motivation to > > address their marketing approach. If they were losing money on > > ColdFusion,

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Brad Wood
-Original Message- From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 11:55 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better If they are making good money on it, and it's mostly from the enterprise sector, wouldn't it mak

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Russ
rver Enterprise, and less people moving to free platforms. Russ > -Original Message- > From: Josh Nathanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:33 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better > >

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-07 Thread Josh Nathanson
> >Well it's a bit hard for CF, because of the pricing model. CF is priced > >per >>Server, meanwhile all the other technologies you mention can be hosted for >>(relatively) free. .NET makes it up by selling more Windows Server >>licenses, and PHP and RoR are free. All the evidence we can gathe

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-06 Thread Mary Ann McIntosh
>Well it's a bit hard for CF, because of the pricing model. CF is priced per >Server, meanwhile all the other technologies you mention can be hosted for >(relatively) free. .NET makes it up by selling more Windows Server >licenses, and PHP and RoR are free. > >Microsoft has done a good job adver

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-06 Thread Aaron Rouse
I have not seen any evidence of this either and actually what I have seen is CF developers looking for work and having a hard time finding things in their areas. I can not speak for all companies but I know the one I do work for went away from CF not because of lack of developers at all. Somehow

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-06 Thread Dave Watts
> I'm not sure that's entirely true. It may be the *best* way, > but not the *only* way. Have we really gotten the word out as > a community to Adobe in terms of what we are seeing and the > trends that are happening? I don't even know what that means. Purchasing a product doesn't make you a m

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-06 Thread Russ
Message- > From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 1:57 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better > > >The only way you can "pressure" a company is to not buy its products. > >

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-06 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
>The only way you can "pressure" a company is to not buy its products. I'm not sure that's entirely true. It may be the *best* way, but not the *only* way. Have we really gotten the word out as a community to Adobe in terms of what we are seeing and the trends that are happening? Sales numbers a

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-06 Thread Dave Watts
> The problem with that Dave is that even the Enterprise > customers won't be able to find developers eventually, if the > small business and educational use is left behind. We're > already starting to see this developer shortage and > eventually companies are going to get tired of having to >

RE: SPAM: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-06 Thread Andy Matthews
Well it's always possible that Crayola JUST switched away from that. :) -Original Message- From: Beru [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 8:30 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: SPAM: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better Taken out of the &quo

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-06 Thread Beru
gt; > To: "CF-Talk" > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 12:19 PM > Subject: Re: SPAM: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better > > > >> I'm not surprised. The big question continues to be "What can Adobe > >> do to promote Col

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-06 Thread Judith Dinowitz
>Thanks Josh. I hadn't really looked through them recently, though I was >thinking specifically about case studies of companies moving to CF from >competing technologies like PHP or MS SharePoint. It was my impression >(though I could be wrong) that their case studies were generally >confined to n

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-06 Thread s. isaac dealey
> The problem with that Dave is that even the Enterprise customers > won't be able to find developers eventually, if the small business > and educational use is left behind. We're already starting to see > this developer shortage and eventually companies are going to get > tired of having to train

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread William Seiter
:45 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better > -Original Message- > From: William Seiter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 7:04 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
>Adobe doesn't appear to be especially >interested in selling to the small business market, but rather to the >enterprise market. According to the little sales information I can find, >this strategy appears to be working for them. The problem with that Dave is that even the Enterprise customers wo

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Mike Francisco
have to sell it (or at least make my selling efforts as easy as the PHP, .NET or the RoR guy)? > -Original Message- > From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 12:10 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread s. isaac dealey
> Good idea. They do have quite a few case studies already, but you > can never have too many. > > http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/customers/ > > -- Josh Thanks Josh. I hadn't really looked through them recently, though I was thinking specifically about case studies of companies moving

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Aaron Rouse
I took a class that had QBasic within it, I think I took that class 4-5 years ago and would imagine it is still there. I have yet to see an ASP.NETclass, I know at the current University that I take classes they do have some PHP courses. I also know that one of the nearby community colleges was o

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Russ
> -Original Message- > From: William Seiter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 7:04 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better > > I think that having it as an alternative to QBasic would be grea

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Craigsell
CF is great but CF coupled with Flex is even better. We have a lot of Java developers here who don't think much of CF but they kinda gulp when they can see what a Flex front end and a CF backend can do. Flex is starting to make inroads here since it is easy to make killer apps with it and it i

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread William Seiter
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 2:55 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better >Adobe should also push to have ColdFusion taught as part of the curriculum >(at least as an elective) instead of ASP.NET, or at least as an alternative. >They should pr

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Gerald Guido
Message----- > > From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 12:10 PM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better > > > > >I'm not surprised. The big question continues

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Aaron Rouse
I'd be curious as to how many enterprise customers of CF they pick up per year vs how many are lost. On Feb 5, 2008 3:54 PM, Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem is that, why do I, the CF developer, need to keep > > on selling the advantages of CF to my clients. Shouldn't > > Ado

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
>Adobe should also push to have ColdFusion taught as part of the curriculum >(at least as an elective) instead of ASP.NET, or at least as an alternative. >They should provide free and easy educational materials that teachers can >use to teach CF. Yes, absolutely. It simply has to be out there mo

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Dave Watts
> The problem is that, why do I, the CF developer, need to keep > on selling the advantages of CF to my clients. Shouldn't > Adobe work twice as hard to reach out to the small > businesses, so developers like me don't have to sell it (or > at least make my selling efforts as easy as the PHP, .N

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread CFMike
have to sell it (or at least make my selling efforts as easy as the PHP, .NET or the RoR guy)? > -Original Message- > From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 12:10 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Aaron Rouse
studies already, but you can > never > have too many. > > http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/customers/ > > -- Josh > > > > - Original Message - > From: "s. isaac dealey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" > Sent: Tuesday, F

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Russ
gt; From: CFMike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 4:13 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better > > As a CF developer for many years, I often feel as if I work twice as hard > selling my services to a potent

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Josh Nathanson
but you can never have too many. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/customers/ -- Josh - Original Message - From: "s. isaac dealey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 12:19 PM Subject: Re: SPAM: Re: ColdFusion: Some Peop

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread CFMike
have to sell it (or at least make my selling efforts as easy as the PHP, .NET or the RoR guy)? > -Original Message- > From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 12:10 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Ju

Re: SPAM: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Aaron Rouse
Agreed, I know one of the big things here that the IT Architects used to say CF is a dead or dying language was all the examples they could show of businesses going away from it. Although they were on a mission to go pure MS and not sure if anything could have beat them off that mission. On Feb 5

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Kevin Aebig
d I'm not willing to move just to keep programming in Coldfusion. A sad reality... !k -Original Message- From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 2:10 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better >I&

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Mary Jo Sminkey
>I'm not surprised. The big question continues to be "What can Adobe do >to promote ColdFusion?" CF gets press on releases, and Adobe has >actively and aggressively marketed toward the government IT sector for a >few years now. I just want to see the articles that say "Yeah, we're >migrating fr

Re: SPAM: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread s. isaac dealey
> I'm not surprised. The big question continues to be "What can Adobe > do to promote ColdFusion?" CF gets press on releases, and Adobe has > actively and aggressively marketed toward the government IT sector > for a few years now. I just want to see the articles that say "Yeah, > we're migrating f

RE: SPAM: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
That's funny. ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. Bobby Hartsfield http://acoderslife.com -Original Message- From: William Seiter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 11:11 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: SPAM: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Bette

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Judith Dinowitz
>> week they profiled Bill Santille of Uline, a 'Shipping Supply >> Specialist' if Google has it right. (http://tinyurl.com/2fsj74) > >Yeah, they're a great company with excellent customer service and quality >products. I use them, as do clients of mine. You should all get your >packaging and shi

Re: SPAM: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Cutter (CFRelated)
Wow, Judith, you are fast! I only received my magazine copy yesterday. I copied Ben and Damon on my original post (I had the wrong email for Kristen) Steve "Cutter" Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _ http://blog.cuttersc

RE: SPAM: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread William Seiter
m Enter passkey: goldengrove Web Developer / ColdFusion Programmer http://William.Seiter.com -Original Message- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 6:44 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: SPAM: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

Re: SPAM: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Judith Dinowitz
Actually, I had seen this article already and brought it to the attention of Kristen Schofield and Adam Lehman at Adobe. Kristen said she'd see what she could do. So Adobe has already been alerted. Judith Dinowitz Editor-in-Chief: Fusion Authority http://www.fusionauthority.com > I would like

RE: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Adam Churvis
> week they profiled Bill Santille of Uline, a 'Shipping Supply > Specialist' if Google has it right. (http://tinyurl.com/2fsj74) Yeah, they're a great company with excellent customer service and quality products. I use them, as do clients of mine. You should all get your packaging and shipping

RE: SPAM: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Dave Watts
> I would like to see some articles that said they were going > from .NET to CF as well but it is always the other way > around. I'm working with a client who's transitioning from .NET to CF right now. That said, I think there are more people going the other way. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Softw

Re: SPAM: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Aaron Rouse
MX 7 Developer > _ > http://blog.cutterscrossing.com > > Andy Matthews wrote: > > Sure...I'm sure that interview was done about 2 or 3 months ago. > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Todd Rafferty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] &

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Jim Wright
On 2/5/08, Todd Rafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Too late. Looks like they've already converted ( http://www.uline.com/ ). > I don't think there has been any conversion there, or any CF...looking in the wayback machine, that site has been the same ASP classic stuff since around 2002... http

Re: SPAM: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Cutter (CFRelated)
te: > Sure...I'm sure that interview was done about 2 or 3 months ago. > > -Original Message- > From: Todd Rafferty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:29 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: SPAM: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't

RE: SPAM: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Andy Matthews
Sure...I'm sure that interview was done about 2 or 3 months ago. -Original Message- From: Todd Rafferty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:29 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: SPAM: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better Too late. Looks li

Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better

2008-02-05 Thread Todd Rafferty
Too late. Looks like they've already converted ( http://www.uline.com/ ). On Feb 5, 2008 9:23 AM, Cutter (CFRelated) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This morning I read something disturbing. Weekly I get InformationWeek, > which really caters more to CIOs and SysAds more than developers. That's > p

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