Tobe Goldfinger

'SkillBuilding with ColdFusion' is Allaire's CD-based multimedia self-study training course, designed to get beginning ColdFusion developers off to a good start. In order to get a good feeling for how effective this course would be for true beginners I gave it to three trainees in my organization to use over the course of recent months. While each of these individuals has many years of database application experience, none of them had any real experience in the world of web development. In addition I, myself, sat through the entire course (except the labs), so that I could examine it from a project manager's perspective. The stated course objectives are to teach developers how to: configure ColdFusion configure ODBC create ColdFusion application pages, i.e. get comfortable with the edit/save/browse-to-test iterative development cycle publish to the web from a datab... (more)

"Real-World Flex" One-Day Seminar Report: "It's an Exciting Time To Be a Flex Developer!"

On August 14, 2006, just six weeks after the official launch of Adobe Flex 2, SYS-CON Events held its first Real-World Flex Seminar. It was an intensive all-day event, attended by approximately 200 individuals from various business and technical backgrounds. I met individuals from the Java world, the ColdFusion world, and the Flash development world, representing Fortune 500 companies as well as small web development/design firms. People traveled long distances to New York City to attend this event, clearly indicating a strong interest in the new Flex and what it could mean for t... (more)