RIP: ColdFusion Developer's Journal

If you can get through the pop-ups and a FireFox crash or two, there's an announcement from SYS-CON that the ColdFusion Developer's Journal (CFDJ) will be discontinued in favor of (get this) the SilverLight Developer's Journal.

http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/read/426141.htm

Several people have blogged about this, and I happen to agree with their sentiments about the operation.

I think I like Sean's the best:

http://corfield.org/blog/index.cfm/do/blog.entry/entry/Hurrah_CFDJ_is_dead

http://www.blogoffusion.com/index.cfm/2007/9/8/syscon-drops-coldfusion-developers-journal-for-silverlight

http://www.phusor.com/index.cfm/2007/9/9/Show-Your-Support-for-the-ColdFusion-Community

I too have been a victim of their spam despite my efforts to get them to stop.

Having contributed an article to this magazine, I was turned off by their arrogance and rude behavior to those that were giving them free content. I was a freelancer at the time and, after writing my article, asked if there was any compensation available for me to write additional articles. I asked several times by email and never got a response. What I did get was repeated email form-letters asking if I'd like to contribute another article.

Ya. Right.

Here's a much better option if you're interested in keeping up with the CF community:

http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly/