I have used ColdFusion in the past for 2 different clients both using CFM pages with the markup and queries in the pages. Luckily at the end of the projects I knew I was done with them and moving on to something else. The 1st project I created from scratch so it was manageable at the start but by the end with multiple developers was a mess. It wasn't difficult to learn but all the <cf> tags are a pain and as someone else said the IDEs didn’t like them at the time except for Homesite. The 2nd project was inherited code and it was a mess. The 2nd time at least Eclipse had a CFM plugin that helps editing the files.
Basically the same pain points raised by Ben. I would say if you are a wicket/java junkie then you will not like CF unless they are using one of the modern frameworks and even then it may not be enjoyable but tolerable if landing a job is the main concern. Good Luck. On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:33 PM, Jamie Swain <jpsw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I know this is an unusual question for this list, but I was hoping > that I could get some viewpoints and info about something. I recently > interviewed for a job opportunity at a company that runs their core > app, comprised of both web interface and web services, in a cool niche > that I would like to work in. > > Also the company seems very cool over all. It's a nice size, a small > development team, and the guys I met seemed really good. > > The big problem is that I'd be working mostly in ColdFusion. When > they told me that in the initial, pre-interview email, I thought jeez > is anybody using that still. I had never had any hands-on experience > with it, so I spent the weekend with a decent book working through > some exercises on my laptop. What I found was that my initial > impression was, "this language sucks, it is a pain to use." I admit > this is only after spending about 3 days with CF and I really didn't > go into it with my mind wide open. > > So, my question would be, if anyone here has experience with CF, is it > really as bad as it seems? As someone with a passionate, nearly > religious fondness of Wicket, will I hate every minute of CF as much > as I fear I might? Is there any chance that after trying to accept > some of the things I already don't like that I will find that I can > still enjoy programming a cool product even if the underlying system > sucks? > > Thanks for any info/thoughts! > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > >
