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Yesterday I found out about HacketyHack, another great site by_why.
This is awesome, a site dedicated to teaching kids to program in Ruby. I
have to ask the CF community to take a look around, I think that there may be a
communal misconception about the overall strength and size of the CF
community. Don’t get me wrong, the CF community is great and I believe it
is growing. I think we need to open our eyes and take notice of the other
platform communities which exist, for instance, Ruby. According to CFUnited,
the 2005 conference had 900+ attendees, I couldn’t find a documented number for 2007 but am sure it was well over 1000. In comparison, RailsConf 2007 had more than 1600 attendees (and also raised over $33,000 for charity by the attendees, oh and Adobe was there and at RailsConf Europe as well). This is all for a community that is less than 5 years old, compared to ColdFusion which is 12 years old. My point is that is seems the Ruby community is investing in itself to a much greater extent than that of the ColdFusion community. Additionally, community involvement centered on next-generation ColdFusion
programmers seems to be lacking – Where is CF for our kids? How can we better introduce programming concepts to our youth, all the while helping to ensure the continuation of our beloved Web Application platform.

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