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Help spread the word at the People's Toolbox

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Posted in ColdFusion | Posted on 02-22-2007 | 4,066 views

So about a week or so ago I discovered thePeoplesToolbox - a cool site built to aggregate listings of tools for various languages. A darn good idea I say.

I contacted the owners of the site to get them to add ColdFusion, but, apparently they had never heard of it, and I'm having a bit of trouble convincing them that a) lots of people use ColdFusion and b) that it is indeed worth adding to their site.

Folks - help me out here - and help ColdFusion. Please contact the site (POLITELY!!) using the email address on the About page. I'll stress it again - be polite. Just share what you know about the numbers of developers, organizations, etc, using ColdFusion. This is their main concern about adding CF - they want to see some numbers around the number of developers.

Why am I doing this? Every time I see a site that lists programming languages and leaves off ColdFusion turns me into Super Evangelist. I never want to see a list of languages that doesn't include ColdFusion!

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John Ramon said on 02-22-2007 at 10:50 AM #
I emailed them I also mentioned Flex you can't list Flash and not list Flex.
Sid Wing said on 02-22-2007 at 12:43 PM #
Added a request for both CFML and FLEX
Dave Ferguson said on 02-22-2007 at 1:52 PM #
I suggested that they add CF and Flex.
Scott Stroz said on 02-22-2007 at 3:51 PM #
As one of Ray's faithful readers, I am offended that he felt the need to ask us more than once to be polite. Like I am ever impolite.

Well, there was that one time in Denver, but I am not allowed to discuss details/
David Stockton said on 02-23-2007 at 3:29 AM #
Looks like a nice tool to.

I sent them a heart warming letter about leaving all us poor CFers out in the cold.

D
Rey Bango said on 02-25-2007 at 10:39 AM #
Wow, just peachy. More proof that ALOT needs more to be done to get the CF word out. And then people wonder why I'm so vocal about Adobe's (& MM before it) lack of attention to CF.

I'll send them a note myself Ray. Good catch.
Tariq Ahmed said on 02-25-2007 at 8:09 PM #
Request sent.... I was going to do a big speech on how CF is the primary tech for building internal web apps at eBay, but figured I'll see what he responds with.
Mik Muller said on 02-27-2007 at 12:10 AM #
Don't forget, MySpace is written in ColdFusion / Fusebox.
Rey Bango said on 02-27-2007 at 12:22 AM #
@Mik:

Feel free to submit any CF sites to http://www.gotcfm.com/.

I'm starting to compile a list of resources to promote CF.
Jared said on 02-27-2007 at 11:43 AM #
Shot and email off to them also.

Thanks
Mark Holm said on 02-27-2007 at 1:45 PM #
Well it doesn't help in that in the old style media - books - there are only 2 books for CFMX7 that have been published! Go to any CS section of a book store and one can find tons of books on php, perl, .net, python, etc.. where are the CF books that are current?
Raymond Camden said on 02-27-2007 at 1:51 PM #
The market for computer books did drop a bit, so CF got hurt along with the other languages. I'm hoping that will turn around soon.
Collum said on 03-08-2007 at 7:51 AM #
Just revisited thePeoplesToolbox and coldfusion is now an option.

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