CFDJ becomes SLDJ - Good for CF, Bad for Silverlight

Let us be clear, the ColdFusion Developers Journal (CFDJ) has been a piece of crap for a long time. Most of the articles went up without any editing whatsoever, which was bad for the journal and bad for the authors. That is, however, when they actually had articles and not blog reprints or other types of reprints. I was a part of the unfortunate CFDJ Editorial Board, which was kept both uninformed and ignored (so much so that none of the members I am in contact with had any idea this was happening). Therefore, I feel that I know firsthand that Sys-Con as a company could care less about improving CFDJ for quite some time now.

In fact, I had been planning to resign from CFDJ's board in disgust but had been in discussion with my other board colleagues on how best to approach that. I guess Sys-Con beat us to the punch. Oh well, the result is the same, as I had hoped Adobe would pull support for the journal nonetheless. Yes, losing the first CF focused journal does seem to reflect badly on the language, but no worse than a really bad CF journal, which is what we had (nevermind the site, which was a complete embarrassment).

So, let Silverlight have its Sys-Con journal. I think Sys-Con will do as awful a job representing Silverlight as they did ColdFusion.

For those of you interested in reading the announcements and discussion on this...

• SYS-CON to Relaunch CFDJ as Silverlight Developer's Journal
• Sys-Con Drops ColdFusion for Silverlight
• Hurrah! CFDJ is dead!
• Sys-Con announces end of CFDJ
• Show Your Support for the ColdFusion Community

Thank GOD it's finally over. CFDJ was the biggest POS ever for a magazine.

I don't think the site was that bad. When I was a new CF developer, I got some good information from that journal. Now this was 6 years ago, but still. One thing that annoyed me was the flash video ads that always loaded on each fricken page. The fact that their archived journals were never password protected was another stupid business move. How can you have a password protected area and then use a generic password? HA!

It's probably fitting that pronouncing the acronym for the new publication sounds like 'sludge' :)

Password Protected you say?

http://pdf.sys-con.com

Nice to hear the editorial board's story - Matt Woodward has a very long post on that subject too. Sorry you guys got screwed over as well.

The best irony is that with Sys-Con syndicating my blog (without permission) and claiming I'm a CFDJ author, my post about CFDJ being dead is front page on... CFDJ! It is also listed as the top "new blog entry" on pretty much every page. Lovely.