This just in: Rumors of ColdFusion's death overblown

well, unbeknownst to me, somebody came in the middle of the night and offed ColdFusion while it was coming home from a charity art auction in downtown san francisco. I woke up this morning and found a b-line mention for it in the police blotter right next to the working stiff (cobol) found dead riding the subway after just knocking off from work and the other homeless guy that they fished out of the water next to a pier. You can see the full article here

What I'd like to know is who it is that's going around offing ColdFusion or at least spreading all these rumors about it's death. Cause it never fails, i'll see one of these articles and then not even a week later, I'll see it out at a trendy restaurant. Or I'll be invited to a swanky party that coldfusion has thrown held at some party loving socialite's house. (I'm telling you ColdFusion, for your own safety, stay away from Paris Hilton, you don't know where that's been.)

It's just kind of funny/interesting, but these rumors never cease to fly around. ColdFusion is dead, something else is dead, there's other stuff around. Forget the fact that you are employed and your sister who is a LAMP speciialist can't find a decent job well paying gig. Forget the fact that everybody you know in the industry has a pretty sweet gig and that you've gotten some as well precisely because you know ColdFusion.

This is just one of those persistent rumors that doesn't seem to go away that easily, and it probably won't go away any time soon. I'm predicting that in the next year or so (despite some real advances and most likely a new release by the coldfusion team) that we are going to see another one of these articles by somebody, somewhere prevaricating the demise of ColdFusion.

So if you are a beginning coldfusion user, or someone who is starting to pick it up, let me suggest a few things that will safely help you ignore stories like this.

1. learn a second language. It's not just interpreters and world travelers that need multiple languages, you do too. Learn a second and possibly a third language(like FLEX). It'll make you a better programmer and make you more employable if your whatever you're working in at the time decides one unfortunate morning to be found in a ditch next to highway 89.

2. Save some money in the bank. That way you know that you have a little extra should you have to pay for a funeral for that beloved friend. and or find yourself a new job. Note that 2 won't have to be used so much if you do #1.

3. Learn some (or a lot of) Java. This is very similar to #1 up there, except that it will doubly help you with stuff that you do right now. ColdFusion is built on a java platform, and knowing how to work with java and what's going on with java will really help you be a better CF programmer.