RE: Training a new programmer

2008-01-17 Thread Jacob
We had the same issue here. Know video editing and HTML basics. I gave him Forta's WACK and set him up CF delevoper/cfeclipse so he can go through the chapters. About two months later, he has start to work on some development stuff with our lead developer. -Original Message- From: Ian

Re: Training a new programmer

2008-01-17 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 17 Jan 2008, Andy Matthews wrote: > Maybe you should start him with the core concepts of CF before introducting > him to OOP and frameworks? That's quite a lot for someone to absorb. > Especially since he's only been a tinkerer do date. If he's making mods to an existing system (with c

RE: Training a new programmer

2008-01-17 Thread Andy Matthews
Maybe you should start him with the core concepts of CF before introducting him to OOP and frameworks? That's quite a lot for someone to absorb. Especially since he's only been a tinkerer do date. -Original Message- From: Ian Rutherford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January

Re: Training a new programmer

2008-01-17 Thread Adam Haskell
+1 Start out with crud and give him an nearly completed architecture of the application. If you're using fusebox Fusedocs might be a great thing to teach up front. I had a part 1 on my blog about training Mainframe programmers (as well as many others) maybe I should write a part 2 and 3 to that lik

Re: Training a new programmer

2008-01-16 Thread Cutter (CFRelated)
We sent a guy (former PHP) to one of Charlie Arehart's bootcamp courses. He's not looking back;) Steve "Cutter" Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Ian Rutherford wrote: > I have an employ

Re: Training a new programmer

2008-01-16 Thread Kay Smoljak
> He has expressed interest in learning more and getting more involved in the > actual programming for the company. > Any suggestions on how best to go about training him? I've got books galore > but I'm not sure how best to introduce him to frameworks, OOP and CF as a > cohesive whole. I've he

Re: Training a new programmer

2008-01-16 Thread Bruce Sorge
I agree. When one of my employers decided to go from CF to .NET, I was given 90 days to get up to speed to beginner/intermediate level. So they told me to pick some light-weight apps that I did in CF then convert them to .NET. It worked. In about four months I was doing some high level .NET stu

Re: Training a new programmer

2008-01-16 Thread Ben Doom
I'd pick something non-time-critical and non-mission-critical and, as it were, throw him in the shallow end. Give him all the help he asks for. Do a code review. Pick something more important, wash, rinse, repeat. --Ben Doom Ian Rutherford wrote: > I have an employee who has tinkered around

Re: Training Powerpoints for Sales

2007-10-12 Thread C. Hatton Humphrey
> I'm sure others will have plenty of reasons, but my suggestion would be > to actually create the presentation using CF8's new presentation tags. > > Then, on the last slide of the presentation, make note that you used CF8 > for what they just witnessed. I would not mind creating and posting some

RE: Training Powerpoints for Sales

2007-10-12 Thread Dawson, Michael
I'm sure others will have plenty of reasons, but my suggestion would be to actually create the presentation using CF8's new presentation tags. Then, on the last slide of the presentation, make note that you used CF8 for what they just witnessed. M!ke -Original Message- From: C. Hatton H

Re: Training Videos For ColdFusion

2006-12-04 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Friday 01 December 2006 17:33, Dave Watts wrote: > > Captative is good but I believe Camtasia is the best. > In some respects, Captivate is better - the Flash files generated seem to > be quite a bit smaller, and it integrates nicely with Breeze. Wink is very handy too. -- Tom Chiverton Helpi

Re: Training Videos For ColdFusion

2006-12-03 Thread Matt Robertson
Qarbon's ViewletCam is a super-cheap Captivate-like product and lets you edit your timeline. So if you do stuff like wait 30 secs for your web screen to respond you can edit that all out, then put in balloons pointing to items of interest etc. Also lets you doa sound track over the video. We've

Re: Training Videos For ColdFusion

2006-12-02 Thread Dave Lyons
for os x users http://shinywhitebox.com/home/home.html works really well as far as youtube goes, personally, I hate those vids, you can never see them and that would defeat your purpose. I'd say get a vps or dedicated box and sell some ad space. >I am in the early phases (and still consideri

Re: Training Videos For ColdFusion

2006-12-01 Thread Ryan Stille
YouTube video resolution is going to be way to low for any kind of screencast. I imagine google video is the same way. You can make it go full screen, but it looks horrible because its the same low resolution. Also I believe YouTube has a max length of 10 minutes per video. Easycfm.com kind

RE: Training Videos For ColdFusion

2006-12-01 Thread Munson, Jacob
It seems to me that you can post much higher quality videos to Google Video than youtube. At least, I've seen some higher resolution videos on there, where youtube seems to put all videos down to the same low resolution. > -Original Message- > From: Dan Vega [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Training Videos For ColdFusion

2006-12-01 Thread Dan Vega
I was thinking about that as well. On 12/1/06, Munson, Jacob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As far as hosting, this might be too cheesy, but you could post them to > google video and/or youtube and then just paste the code to your site. > Of course, the quality could suffer this way... > > > > > >

RE: Training Videos For ColdFusion

2006-12-01 Thread Dave Watts
> Captative is good but I believe Camtasia is the best. In some respects, Captivate is better - the Flash files generated seem to be quite a bit smaller, and it integrates nicely with Breeze. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest calibe

RE: Training Videos For ColdFusion

2006-12-01 Thread Munson, Jacob
As far as hosting, this might be too cheesy, but you could post them to google video and/or youtube and then just paste the code to your site. Of course, the quality could suffer this way... "EMF " made the following annotations. --

Re: Training Videos For ColdFusion

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Re: Training Videos For ColdFusion

2006-12-01 Thread Ali Majdzadeh
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Re: Training Videos For ColdFusion

2006-12-01 Thread Dan Vega
I have used camtasia before but it was about 2 years ago, I am sure its gotten better. Thanks for the recommendation. On 12/1/06, Ali Majdzadeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Captative is good but I believe Camtasia is the best. > Benign > > ~~

Re: Training Videos For ColdFusion

2006-12-01 Thread Ali Majdzadeh
Captative is good but I believe Camtasia is the best. Benign ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a yea

RE: training

2006-10-12 Thread Dave Hatz
ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 3:39 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: training > Well, I am still not convinced that anyone with "training" on how to > check a checkbox for say "save class files" can benefit over someone > who reads the docs (mean

RE: training

2006-10-12 Thread Snake
to take a day out for some training. That same situation must apply to a ot of people for a lot of other technologies. Russ -Original Message- From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 October 2006 08:24 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: training Maybe now that you can fin

Re: training

2006-10-12 Thread Richard Cooper
My opinion is that its hard to take time out to read the resources, especially when most of the stuff is simple enough to handle and everything is running smoothly. It's when things start to go wrong and you have to start looking through books and relying on people in forums to get websites wo

Re: training

2006-10-12 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
te at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: RichL To: CF-Talk Sent: Thu Oct 12 08:46:43 2006 Subject: Re: training I can't see the need/desire for training ever going completely - no matter how much resource there is from books and the web Yes I can vouch that highlander will do

Re: training

2006-10-12 Thread RichL
re not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." > Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com > > -Original Message- > From: Snake > To: CF-Talk > Sent: Thu Oct 12 00:56:46 2006 > Subject: RE: training > > That's why most training exists Neil, coz

Re: training

2006-10-12 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
--Original Message- From: Snake To: CF-Talk Sent: Thu Oct 12 00:56:46 2006 Subject: RE: training That's why most training exists Neil, cozz its easier than reading books, and often someone showing you and explaining it makes more sense. I think security sandboxes are simple, but I have spo

RE: training

2006-10-11 Thread Snake
, Neil (RX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 October 2006 23:09 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: training Well, I am still not convinced that anyone with "training" on how to check a checkbox for say "save class files" can benefit over someone who reads the docs (meaning I am not sure your

RE: training

2006-10-11 Thread Dave Watts
> Indeed, maybe 90% or more of the CFIDE features are > straightforward and need no training or further information > to back them up which if why I think a CFIDE training course > is pointless, though if people want to pay for it.. Go for > your life :-) A CF server administration course woul

Re: training

2006-10-11 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
al Message- From: Dave Watts To: CF-Talk Sent: Wed Oct 11 23:39:06 2006 Subject: RE: training > Well, I am still not convinced that anyone with "training" on > how to check a checkbox for say "save class files" can > benefit over someone who reads the docs (mean

RE: training

2006-10-11 Thread Dave Watts
> Well, I am still not convinced that anyone with "training" on > how to check a checkbox for say "save class files" can > benefit over someone who reads the docs (meaning I am not > sure your need formal training on using the CFIDE - it is so > simple to use), ... I generally agree that most

Re: training

2006-10-11 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
+44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: Andy Allan To: CF-Talk Sent: Wed Oct 11 21:50:56 2006 Subject: Re: training Yeah,

Re: training

2006-10-11 Thread Andy Allan
Sent: 11 October 2006 20:27 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: training > > Also, the docs are sufficient in this case, you don't really need training > for this. > > > > > > "This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, > Richmond, Surrey,

RE: training

2006-10-11 Thread Snake
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 October 2006 20:27 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: training Also, the docs are sufficient in this case, you don't really need training for this. "This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom), a d

Re: training

2006-10-11 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
-Original Message- From: Snake To: CF-Talk Sent: Wed Oct 11 19:16:51 2006 Subject: RE: training I don't actually, but you might try www.highlander.co.uk Un-officially I have trained people in that kind of thing. Russ -Original Message- From: Richard Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: training

2006-10-11 Thread Snake
I don't actually, but you might try www.highlander.co.uk Un-officially I have trained people in that kind of thing. Russ -Original Message- From: Richard Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 October 2006 17:00 To: CF-Talk Subject: training Hi, Does anyone know of any courses run i

RE: Training users to be security-conscious [Re: Securing MS-SQL port 1433]

2005-03-04 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
We have to use secure pin to access the servers - how secure do you want to do ;-) Passwords alone as simply not enough. -Original Message- From: John Paul Ashenfelter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 March 2005 12:17 To: CF-Talk Subject: Training users to be security-conscious [Re:

RE: Training users to be security-conscious [Re: Securing MS-SQL port 1433]

2005-03-04 Thread Adrian Lynch
What about Joey from friends, he scratched his PIN into the side of the cash machine(ATM)! I thought that was class :OD -Original Message- From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 March 2005 14:58 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Training users to be security-conscious [Re: Securing

RE: Training users to be security-conscious [Re: Securing MS-SQL port 1433]

2005-03-04 Thread James Holmes
If we could just train our users not to write their username and password on a Post-It on their monitor, I'd be happy. ~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffu

RE: Training ColdFusion "newbies"

2003-12-18 Thread Dan Phillips
Try easycfm.com -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 9:00 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Training ColdFusion "newbies" Hi, Peter... Know of a tutorial online that could teach me how to do this part? "building

RE: Training ColdFusion "newbies"

2003-12-17 Thread Rick Faircloth
Hi, Peter... Know of a tutorial online that could teach me how to do this part? "building a search engine that highlights keywords of their search result anywhere in the search results. They even decided to change the "highlight" to BOLD text with a yellow background." Rick   -Original Me

Re: Training ColdFusion "newbies"

2003-12-17 Thread Kevin Graeme
Congrats! Sounds like you had a lot of fun. -Kevin - Original Message - From: "Peter Tilbrook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 1:38 AM Subject: Training ColdFusion "newbies" > Hey there fellow developers! > > I've just completed a

RE: Training Recommendations

2002-11-13 Thread Tim Laureska
I've taken a few courses at Learning Tree .. not web developer stuff but Windows 2000 networking/security ... and man, they blitz through the info and you can only absorb a small piece... my impression is they assume a higher level of knowledge than what they're advertised prereq's say.. I'm lo

RE: Training materials

2001-10-31 Thread Won Lee
they will be made to bear the full anger of this mailing list. *grin* Won -Original Message- From: Development Team [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 10:47 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Training materials Your should start off with database design as it will be co

Re: Training Recommendations

2001-09-08 Thread Adam Phillip Churvis
Just take a look at the course itinerary for our Advanced Development with SQL Server, Oracle, and ColdFusion 5 class. There is no other course on earth like it, I promise you. It is EXACTLY what you want. Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer Productivit

RE: Training Recommendations

2001-09-07 Thread Cameron Childress
You might check out www.coldfusiontraining.com Adam's got several pretty intensive database classes listed. -Cameron Cameron Childress elliptIQ Inc. p.770.460.1035.232 f.770.460.0963 -- http://www.neighborware.com America's Leading Community Network Software > -Ori

RE: Training Recommendations

2001-09-07 Thread Daye, Marianne
Hi Jay, I took a class called Implementing a Database on MS SQL 7.0 with Productivity Point Intl (www.propoint.com). It covered everything you're looking for, and you get to keep the lesson binder. It does not related back to ColdFusion, but I think it's important to learn the ins and outs of S

RE: Training Recommendations

2001-09-07 Thread Billy Cravens
Bit of a misnomer: what you need has nothing to do with ColdFusion - you need advanced database training. Maybe that'll help your search. I know you want it to "relate back to ColdFusion". However, change your mindset a bit - your database is separate tier, not "part" of ColdFusion. As such, l

RE: Training Recommendations

2001-09-07 Thread Dave Watts
> I'm hoping someone can recommend some ColdFusion training that > focuses on a variety of topics at the database level, especially > including: > > * Database Design Techniques > * Implementing Stored Procedures > * Designing and Using Triggers > * Joins > > I started

RE: Training Recommendations

2001-09-07 Thread Mark Stewart
About a year and a half ago, I took the official Microsoft course, "Implementing a Database With SQL Server 7.0" and found that course to be very helpful. The course covers everything you mentioned below. You'll have to check around your area to see if there are any Microsoft training sites near y

RE: Training

2000-05-22 Thread Reilly, Jim
I have taken quite a few classes w/ Learning Tree and they are great! Teachers are real-lifers... I have not taken any CF courses from them, but again the ones I did were great. Jim -Original Message- From: Joel Firestone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 10:59 AM

RE: Training.

2000-03-28 Thread Won Lee
harset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable RE: Training. actually i believe the correct syntax is <CF_opinion>Your boss seems quite unreasonable = to me</CF_opinion> since it is a custom tag.  make sure you = document it before you make it open s

RE: Training.

2000-03-28 Thread David Gassner
All of the Allaire-approved classes are listed there. Don't know where you are, but you might find what you need in the Bay Area where classes are taught in San Francisco, Sacramento, San Mateo & Santa Clara, by 2 different providers. For instance, in San Francisco, Fast Track is being taught by

RE: Training.

2000-03-28 Thread Pecora, James
Good Luck! Your boss seems quite unreasonable to me.. One thing you might consider looking into is On-Site training... contact the nearest training partner to you and see if they will do on-site training. FTCF and ACFD would have to run consecutively, unless they dispatched two instructors.. Whe