Man... How does one get to work on your team, Pete? :) > Let me give you my own personal experience, it might help.
> 6 years ago, I was the manager of a small (5 person) web > design group > at a medium-sized software company. At the time, I had > about equal > experience with ASP and CF. > My team was great -- young, enthusiastic, willing to > learn...but all > they knew was HTML (except for one, who could modify a .pl > mailer > script and that was about it). The challenge? I was > tasked with > converting our then-antiquated web site from static HTML > to something > dynamic and hopefully content-managed. > I discussed the chellenges facing us with my team, and > presented the > viable options - jsp, php, asp, cf. We looked at code > examples from > each together and narrowed the pack down to ASP (because > of its market > relevance) and CF (because it was familiar to a person who > knew HTML > with an understanding of the words "if" and "else" :) > I took my two most enthusiastic and promising individuals > and gave > them a one-day coding challenge; I would create a > database, they would > need to create interfaces that would insert, update, > delete, and > display that data. One would use ASP, the other would use > CF. For > the record, I put the person who was probably the smarter > of the two > on the ASP project, and I bought each of them a good book > to study the > night before so they could have some familiarity. > We started at 9AM the next day. The person who was using > CF finished > the task in three hours; the person who was using ASP was > still > working on it at 4:30PM. The next day, ASP guy came in > and said > "screw it, I want to try this with CF". He completed the > task in > about 2.5 hours. As a group, we made the decision then > and there to > go with CF. > Over the next several weeks, I held daily brown bag lunch > sessions > where we sat in a conference room and I went over best > practices, some > SQL basics, and went into some CF intricacies. Within a > couple of > months, I felt that the entire team was proficient in CF, > with one or > two showing true talent. We never looked back from there. > Pete s. isaac dealey 434.293.6201 new epoch : isn't it time for a change? add features without fixtures with the onTap open source framework http://www.fusiontap.com http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/author/4806Dealey.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:236348 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
