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I had CF on my resume for quite a while as well, although I took it off to reduce the number of recruiters calling me. Back in the age of classic ASP, Perl scr

by steverb 10y ago

I had CF on my resume for quite a while as well, although I took it off to reduce the number of recruiters calling me. Back in the age of classic ASP, Perl scripts and CGI scripts, Cold Fusion was a very decent technology choice. It was my introduction to a controller/view styled programming pattern (called Fusebox) back in 2000. Then they (Macromedia) got bought out by Adobe and the whole thing descended into weirdness and MS came out with .Net. Now get off my lawn you millenial! :-)

sean_patel 10y ago
> although I took it off to reduce the number of recruiters calling me. Why? If it was in demand due to scarcity, couldn't you have done freelance work at a ridiculously high hourly rate? I've come across another ol Indian dude (my Pop's age, we called him 'uncle') who was making a killing programming in some mainframe language called COBOL. Answer this and I'll get off your lawn LOL. ( He also made fun of my node.js and react.js and said "You young kids are always moving on to the next shiny thing")
- flukus 10y ago
  That limits your career long term. You might make good money for a while, but the well will dry up and not many would hire someone that's been doing nothing but cold fusion for 20 years.
  - sean_patel 10y ago
    Didn't think of that. Thank you for the career advise. I'm glad you highlighted the risks (it'll help me when I become old and think I am being clever working on then-outdated tech :)
    - matt_kantor 10y ago
      > (it'll help me when I become old and think I am being clever working on then-outdated tech :) It depends how old you mean, but if you're a few years away from retirement it could still be a good plan.
      - flukus 10y ago
        It might even let you naturally do a "soft retirement", gradually wind down the workload as clients move on to New Tech.
        sean_patel 10y ago
        > "soft retirement" Love this phrase! I'm a Millennial, so I have ways to go, but this makes sense for when I hit my early 50s (if I am still alive and well that is)
- mustacheemperor 10y ago
  I know people getting their bachelor's right now taking classes training in COBOL. Recruiters from US government contractors have told them there will be a demand for them forever because of how ingrained and specialized some of these legacy systems are.
bluetwo 10y ago
I still use coldfusion and thought there would be more comments here about the language! It has evolved to be a Java Framework, essentially, but I love it still. Once you get into practice of using coldfusion components, which compile into java beans, it becomes the best of all worlds. Stable, easy to read and write, highly reusable, lots of functionality and expandability, fast, compiled, etc.

by steverb 10y ago

sean_patel 10y ago

> although I took it off to reduce the number of recruiters calling me. Why? If it was in demand due to scarcity, couldn't you have done freelance work at a ridiculously high hourly rate? I've come across another ol Indian dude (my Pop's age, we called him 'uncle') who was making a killing programming in some mainframe language called COBOL. Answer this and I'll get off your lawn LOL. ( He also made fun of my node.js and react.js and said "You young kids are always moving on to the next shiny thing")

flukus 10y ago
That limits your career long term. You might make good money for a while, but the well will dry up and not many would hire someone that's been doing nothing but cold fusion for 20 years.
- sean_patel 10y ago
  Didn't think of that. Thank you for the career advise. I'm glad you highlighted the risks (it'll help me when I become old and think I am being clever working on then-outdated tech :)
  - matt_kantor 10y ago
    > (it'll help me when I become old and think I am being clever working on then-outdated tech :) It depends how old you mean, but if you're a few years away from retirement it could still be a good plan.
    - flukus 10y ago
      It might even let you naturally do a "soft retirement", gradually wind down the workload as clients move on to New Tech.
      - sean_patel 10y ago
        > "soft retirement" Love this phrase! I'm a Millennial, so I have ways to go, but this makes sense for when I hit my early 50s (if I am still alive and well that is)
mustacheemperor 10y ago
I know people getting their bachelor's right now taking classes training in COBOL. Recruiters from US government contractors have told them there will be a demand for them forever because of how ingrained and specialized some of these legacy systems are.

bluetwo 10y ago

I still use coldfusion and thought there would be more comments here about the language! It has evolved to be a Java Framework, essentially, but I love it still. Once you get into practice of using coldfusion components, which compile into java beans, it becomes the best of all worlds. Stable, easy to read and write, highly reusable, lots of functionality and expandability, fast, compiled, etc.