Yes it is true CFDJ is no more. I was not so much shocked to read about the end of CFDJ HERE, but rather the reasons why.
Engin Sezici's statement about "moving from ColdFusion to other emerging rich web technologies such as AJAX, Flex, and Silverlight" does make one wonder if he actually knows that ColdFusion is a server side technology let alone what it is, because that statement just doesn't makes any sense otherwise. And anyone who is even remotely familiar with these technoligies knows that they need a server side technology behind them to make them work, and with FLEX being an Adobe product it does of course integrate tightly with ColdFusion and better than it does with other server side technologies.
So aside from the obvious question of how did Engin Sezici get to be an editor on CFDJ, why are they really abandoning ColdFusion.
Well I think that answer is given in the statement "After ColdFusion became part of the Adobe product line Adobe recently decided to discontinue its support of the magazine."
Such a statement might certainly start to make some people wonder about all the other rumours that have been rife about Adobe dropping ColdFusion, although I should point out that I do not believe any of those rumours myself and that there are plenty of facts to the contrary.
And considering Silverlight is a Microsoft product, I would hazzard a guess that their pockets are now being lined with Micro$oft Dollars instead.
I have to say I wont miss CFDJ, I have always found sys-con to be a useless bunch of muppets. They do not reply to email, return calls, follow up on their promises or make themselves contactable in any way, even if you want to give them your money, they just don't seem to give a doodle-doo about customer service, so I stopped reading CFDJ long ago. And as for their web site, sheesh what a nightmare that is to visit, its just full of annoying advertising, very irritating auto-play videos and bugger all content.
Sep 14, 2007 at 4:24 PM Anyone who actually takes any stock in the rumors about CF being dead or Adobe dropping CF has probably been smoking too much pot.
Adobe has made it clear that CF9 is already in planning and that they will continue to support the CF product.
Truly, do you think if Adobe were dropping CF they would spend so much time integrating their products into the CF server? Flex has better integration with CF than any other language. CF can create and manipulate PDFs very nicely now because some of the LiveCycle services are included in the CF engine.
I could name many aspects of the current engine that prove Adobe's dedication to the platform. A company who is dropping a product or even considering it does NOT spend tha much time developing so many new custom features.
What the news about Adobe dropping support says to me is that they realized CFDJ was a detriment to the image of CF and a waste of marketing dollars.
Sep 14, 2007 at 4:53 PM Actually, I did not say that I believed such rumours at all, and what I actually said was
"Such a statement might certainly start to make some people wonder about all the other rumours ".
So just to make it 100% clear to anyone else who may mis-read this, I have added a further statement to that effect to avoid any further confusion.
Sep 14, 2007 at 6:12 PM :) I am not embarrassed at all. Actually, if you had not taken my post personaly you would see it is not a personal dig at you but rather ANYONE who believes the rumors. If you do not believe them then that statement does not apply to you.
Chill dude ;)