The End of CFDJ... and a Major Announcement on the Horizon

As many of you have already heard, Sys-Con is discontinuing CFDJ. I was just as surprised as many of you. I'll take this opportunity to publicly state that my control over the technical content of the magazine was relinquished about a year ago because Sys-Con wanted to assume responsibility/control over author/article solicitation and pretty much all decisions regarding the magazine. My role as Editor-in-Chief went from overseeing nearly every technical aspect of the magazine to simply writing an editorial every month. No surprise that from that point to present, many CFDJ readers noticed a decline in quality. It was at this time that several popular CF bloggers publicly vocalized their disapproval at Sys-Con's reprinting of blog entries without permission.

I am sad to see CFDJ go, as it was once a great magazine. That said, I was no longer happy with the way the magazine was being run and had planned to resign as Editor-in-Chief immediately following MAX. The fact that as Editor-in-Chief I knew nothing of the decision to discontinue the magazine says it all.

Two things I also want to state for the record:

1. I was disgusted by the statements about ColdFusion made by Sys-Con in their press release(http://ajax.sys-con.com/read/426141.htm)
2. Not now, nor ever, have I been responsible for or had any say in the Sys-Con website (yes, I hate it too and have for quite some time)

I will continue to write and offer commentary and insight regarding ColdFusion and the CF community via this blog. Posting has been light of late... I've been very busy and have some major news, which I will most likely be announcing tomorrow.