+1 on this. When I created the "Web Technology Group" team at Macromedia to rewrite the e-commerce parts of the website (built with BroadVision back then), just after they acquired Allaire, we cross-trained a team of Java / C++ developers to CFML with great success. We later hired some CF developers to round out the team. The big benefit was we started with experienced OO developers and picking up a new language was pretty easy...
Sean On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Adrocknaphobia <adrocknapho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do yourself (and the community) a favor... train a PHP/Java/.NET/Ruby > developer in ColdFusion if you are struggling to hire someone. CF is so easy > to learn you'll likely spend less time training a developer than you would > searching for one. Our anecdotal evidence shows that an experienced OO > developer can be productive w/ CF in less than 3 weeks. > > -Adam ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:341019 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
