subject:"CFMX Certification"

CFUNITED news, SQL interview, CFMX certification study group

2005-02-17 Thread Michael Smith

In this issue of ColdFusion conference and training news:
1. CFUNITED News and Q & A
2. Interview CF and SQL with SQL expert Joan Falcao
3. CFMX certification study group - new Thursday group TODAY

Happy coding
- Michael Smith,
TeraTech, Inc http://www.teratech.com/

PS Can you help TeraTech in the CFDJ awards? TeraTech has supported
the ColdFusion community since 1998! Now is your chance to help us
out in return. :-) You can read how we have helped
the ColdFusion and local community since 1998 and vote at:
http://www.teratech.com/vote.cfm

1. CFUNITED News

* There are only 8 days left for the earlybird price on CFUNITED-05 - ends Fri
2/25/05

* Ben Forta interview video released at http://www.cfunited.com/index.cfm
(uses Macromedia Flash Video)

* Meet CFUNITED speakers including Ben Forta at CFUNITED Sneak Peek Wed 3/2/05
Prizes include one copy of CFMX 7 Standard and a ticket to CFUNITED.
For more details and to register see:
http://www.cfug-md.org/cfunited-sneak-peek.cfm

* 132 days until CFUNITED-05

* CFUNITED-05 press release at
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050216005757&newsLang=en

* Pre and Post conference special classes are being planned for CFUNITED-05
details coming soon.

* The offical airline of CFUNITED-05 is... you guessed it United Airlines!
United Airlines is offering discounts to all attendees for their travel
to the Washington DC area. Servicing Dulles, BWI, and Reagan National
airports.
10% off tickets purchased before May 29th
5% off tickets purchased after May 29th

* CFUNITED-05 Q & A
***
Q: I'm pushing CFUNITED to my coworkers and I received a couple questions
that I thought you could help me with. Why did the price go up so much?
We know that it is 3 days vs. 2 but the price is twice what is was last year.

A: The extra costs are the extra day, providing lunch on 3
days plus open bar reception on Wed night, a larger (and much nicer)
hotel than last year. Also the hotel during the week charge events more
than events at weekends. All this adds up to why the price went up 100%
instead of 50%. At $399 (with discount code) for 3 days of training that
works out at less than $135 per day and I think is still a bargin.

Q: Will the full agenda with sessions & associated timeslots be out before
the early bird deadline of 2/25?

A: We will have a draft agenda up next week. The final agenda is not fixed
because we still have some slots to fill from Macromedia and
Microsoft and they will affect the schedule. In addition we plan to
repeat some popular sessions and need to poll attendees to find out
which ones to repeat.

Q: Will there be a MMUG manager visiblity event at CFUNITED like last year?

A: Yes we are planning both a visiblity event (green MMUG manager hats anyone?)
and a special reception for managers, speakers and other VIPs like Team
Macromedia. This
is a great chance to meet potential speakers for your group...

Q: Will there be a MMUG manager day before CFUNITED like last year?

A: Yes we are planning one to help you run your group better

Let me know if you have any other questions
- Michael

2. CF and SQL interview with Joan Falcao

MS: I am talking with CF206 SQL class teacher Joan Falcao. Why should someone
come to
your SQL class?

JF: Because you've been driving your BMW around in first gear, and you suspect
you're missing out on something? An SQL engine is an amazing piece of software!
And it's quite possible to use it for years as little more than an electronic
filing cabinet for your records. You could be missing out on so much. This
class shows you some of the great features of an SQL database and how to harness
them from a ColdFusion interface.

MS: What kinds of things might people be missing out on?

JF: Well, the first things that comes to mind are basic things, like joining
tables and summarizing data. Then there are "data mining" types of things:
finding missing data and analyzing patterns in your data.

MS: But can't you do that in ColdFusion - why learn how to do it in SQL too?

JF: Most of this you can do in ColdFusion. But why reinvent the wheel? For
example, instead of joining tables in SQL, you could write nested ColdFusion
queries: you could loop through a ColdFusion query on table1 and then run a
query on table2 to find rows related to the row in table1. Or -- another
example -- when you want to total up the values in a column, you could write a
ColdFusion query to bring back all the rows of interest and then add the values
up inside the query loop. But if you stop to think about the inefficiency of it
all... Well, it makes me cringe. And the data mining things would probably
just never happen, because it's hard to justify writing code to find data
relationships that might be useful. Running a query, on the ot

Re: CFMX Certification

2004-05-24 Thread Michael Dinowitz

People have complained about this thread and I'm officially moving it to CF-OT.
In addition, please try to play nice. I don't want to have to ban threads or
people.
Thanks.

--
Michael Dinowitz
House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
Finding technical solutions to the problems you didn't know you had yet
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Re: CFMX Certification

2004-05-24 Thread Greg Landers

Nicely put ... bravo!
  - Original Message - 
  From: Tangorre, Michael 
  To: CF-Talk 
  Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 12:39 PM
  Subject: RE: CFMX Certification

  Ok,

  Let me shed some light on this for everyone because people's responses are
  very close minded and rude (Greg Luce hint hint). Vishnu is obviously not
  fortunate enough to be in a position to afford something so he has a few
  options:

  A - Work hard until he can afford it
  B - Find alternate means by which to study (manual, online tutorials, etc)
  C - See if some people are willing to help him obtain the tool he wants (not
  an unreasonable request)

  He asked neither A, B, nor C so we decided that maybe we could help with C.
  Tony and myself got chatting on AIM and decided that instead of bashing the
  hell out of this guy and making him feel like a total ass for the original
  post, why not follow in what Massimo started, a positive solution; the guy
  apologized and sent it to the list, get over it. You can either contribute
  or not. End of story. We thought we could help out a co-developer... A part
  of the development and CF community! Do as you wish but please stop replying
  with comparisons to cars, houses, raping woman, etc... Because people can
  offer you the comparable solutions as Vishnu, although you will not likely
  get any contributions towards a house, car, hooker, etc...

  Mike
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