RE: The job market

2004-08-10 Thread Geoffrey N Epstein
I agree. Any test has to be absolutely relevant to the development. Also, with a bit of care, you could sit them down in the actual development environment, including Homesite, Dreamweaver or ColdFusion Studio and get them to do some stuff - no multiple choice ever! It's much like open book exams

OT: IDE was Re: The job market

2004-08-10 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
You may never have to develop WITHOUT Cold Fusion Studio by your side.But I still expect you to be able to show me you can work without a net. Funny thing is, during the days of CF3 I wasn't very happy with the IDE's available at the time. I used to use a shareware (registered for $30) HTML

RE: The job market

2004-08-10 Thread Adrian Lynch
H, although I agree about making the effort, spare a thought for us with designer stubble, I have sensitive skin! :OD Ade -Original Message- From: Doug White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 August 2004 05:18 To: CF-Jobs-Talk Subject: Re: The job market Those that appeared at an

Re: knowing syntax during an interview was RE: The job market

2004-08-10 Thread Ray Champagne
or how about cfthistopicissspiralingoutofcontrol? :) At 02:33 PM 8/10/2004, you wrote: I suppose you've never heard of CFSLIDER then? - Original Message - From: Glenn Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 08:18:40 -0700 Subject: Re: knowing syntax during an interview was RE:

Re: knowing syntax during an interview was RE: The job market

2004-08-10 Thread S . Isaac Dealey
At 07:50 AM 8/10/2004, you wrote: It all depends on the types of things you ask someone to write out manually.Being incapable of typing out CFQUERY or CFOUTPUT is simply inexcusable and there is no convincing me otherwise. Whereas it's okay for someone not to be intimately familiar