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In 2002 I realized that I wasn’t the hotshot I thought I was. I bet a lot of people will learn that soon too.
by Ididntdothis 7y ago
In 2002 I realized that I wasn’t the hotshot I thought I was. I bet a lot of people will learn that soon too.
- bdcravens 7y agoFor sure. I really worry about the one-trick ponies that know one front-end framework and have had no shortage of opportunities. (In the early 2000s, I knew a lot of ColdFusion devs who honestly weren't cut out to be programmers, but the ease of the language enabled them to earn king's ransoms ... until the jobs dried up and it became a buyer's market)
- dillonmckay 7y agoFunnily enough, the shop I am in uses Coldfusion and Python, but CF is used on the more important, heavily trafficked apps. Do you remember the guy teaching AOL server and placing them in jobs? https://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/aolserver/introduction-1.html https://philip.greenspun.com/wtr/aolserver/introduction-1.ht... After the dotcom bust, people with cash seemed to turn to real estate, but I don’t think that is an option this turn. The real of ‘physical’ is a liability.
- shanemhansen 7y agoFond memories. My first pure software development job was using that stack at USU circa 2005.
- cobbzilla 7y agoTo be fair, Phil Greenspun also ran photo.net and produced a absolutely beautiful coffee-table book along the way.
- bluedino 7y ago>> Suppose you're running Perl CGI scripts on Apache. Would AOLserver run 10 times faster? Sure. On the other hand, www.cisco.com manages to sell $1 billion in merchandise annually with Perl CGI scripts. It is always easier and safer to plug in more processor boards than to switch tools. Things haven't changed.
- bdcravens 7y agoDon't get me wrong, I think CF is a great language. (I've spoken at CF conferences and run CFUGs) I would just always have options :-)