My company recently hired another developer. It was the first time I was involved in the hiring process. We hired a recent college graduate with no CFML experience and slight PHP. The grad did seem somewhat strong with HTML, SQL, and CSS. Javascript was slight and jQuery non-existant. I'll be doing...
I'll be traveling to Melbourne, Australia next week to give an "Introduction Into ColdFusion on Wheels" workshop and attend cfObjective (AUZ) . I would love at least one more person to register for the the CFWheels workshop so please consider it if you are in the Melbourne area. The workspace was...
Recently, I was honored to be on the 2 Devs from Down Under podcast discussing an upcoming session for CFObjective ANZ titled "Task-Oriented Workflow With Adobe Flash & ColdFusion Builder". I edited down my discussion to just over 17 mins here. I was on a panel of 2 other speakers. If you wish to...
I was prep-ing for a Mylyn / Tasktop presentation in Kansas City at D2WC . My mom was visiting and we were in the living room watching a short presentation on Mylyn . My mom, a retired grade school teacher, kind of jumped forward in her seat and exclaimed "That is very useful". The feature she...
We started Agile development at my work. We are on the third sprint. Today before our standing meeting, I mentioned to a co-worker, " I needed to figure out what I did yesterday ." If you aren't familiar with a sprint standing meeting, you need to cover three items: 1) what you did yesterday 2)...