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Too be honest, after coding for 20+ years, I'm don't have a particular 'religion', but that probably has more to do with my main bread and butter coming from Co

by awjr 13y ago

Too be honest, after coding for 20+ years, I'm don't have a particular 'religion', but that probably has more to do with my main bread and butter coming from Coldfusion development. What I try and be is acutely aware of trends and then try and use them in my spare time or introduce them into my day to day development. So at the moment there is a lot of love out there for Javascript frameworks (AngularJS in particular). I like how it allows your front end to become middleware agnostic. It's one sexy trend I think is also a lot of fun and gives great results and I'm jumping on board for the next couple of years. Just remember to try and learn something new everyday :)

lostcolony 13y ago
Out of curiosity, has ColdFusion turned into what Cobol kind of is, that niche where no one is starting new projects, but a lot of legacy systems still need support, and the price for that support is beaucoup money? I ask because I actually learned ColdFusion back in the mid to late 90s, but never really did much with it; Perl largely supplanted it in the stuff I was doing, and by the time I entered college, Java supplanted that for web (and actually in industry I'm using a lot of others). (Not that I want to do that, by any means; I don't have the experience or desire. But curious)
- awjr 13y ago
  Not so much Cobol, but basically the only places that still use it are profitable companies set up in the early 2000's. There's nothing wrong with it (although a lot of the time I end up writing Java as CF now compiles to it). It just doesn't have the user base out there and most companies did the right thing and bit the bullet and migrated to "a nother" technology. In the UK this usually meant .Net Currently I'm of the impression that we'll end shifting to Python or Java however there is a huge legacy set of code to overcome first.

by awjr 13y ago

lostcolony 13y ago

Out of curiosity, has ColdFusion turned into what Cobol kind of is, that niche where no one is starting new projects, but a lot of legacy systems still need support, and the price for that support is beaucoup money? I ask because I actually learned ColdFusion back in the mid to late 90s, but never really did much with it; Perl largely supplanted it in the stuff I was doing, and by the time I entered college, Java supplanted that for web (and actually in industry I'm using a lot of others). (Not that I want to do that, by any means; I don't have the experience or desire. But curious)

awjr 13y ago
Not so much Cobol, but basically the only places that still use it are profitable companies set up in the early 2000's. There's nothing wrong with it (although a lot of the time I end up writing Java as CF now compiles to it). It just doesn't have the user base out there and most companies did the right thing and bit the bullet and migrated to "a nother" technology. In the UK this usually meant .Net Currently I'm of the impression that we'll end shifting to Python or Java however there is a huge legacy set of code to overcome first.