Re: CF job/restarting a career

2005-07-28 Thread James Holmes
If you are going to learn CFMX of some flavour, I'd try to pick up as much Java as possible at the same time. People may disagree, but adding Java to your CF skills makes you much more flexible and gives you a second direction to take if the opportunity presents itself. It can also save you a heap

Re: CF job/restarting a career

2005-07-27 Thread Jordan Michaels
if they don't do whatever they can to get and keep good employees. My $0.02. -Jordan K H wrote: Hi! I had a question about finding a CF job/restarting a career – if I’m posting in the wrong place, please redirect me. Thanks in advance. First, my situation. I have about 3 years of CF 5

Re: CF job/restarting a career

2005-07-27 Thread Aaron Rouse
I think every person is different in their ability to learn things. I state this because when I got around to learning CFCs I picked them up in no time at all, probably a matter of days. I did not even use any online tutorials or really even look much in the documents. What I did was looked at

Re: CF job/restarting a career

2005-07-26 Thread Jennifer Larkin
That anecdote may not be entirely accurate. A guy posted to the BACFUG list about a year ago looking for a developer for a code review job. The guy who was hiring was fed up with certified developers who had no experience and couldn't think, and was attempting to state that he didn't care if you

Re: CF job/restarting a career

2005-07-26 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
That anecdote may not be entirely accurate. Hey Jennifer... That's actually not the anecdote I was remembering... I was remembering a post to ... I think cf-community in which someone mentioned hearing from their boss after having been hired that the boss had passed up on hiring someone with the