It looks like you're on the right path. Conferences are great for learning. I've noticed a number of good classes around my town, ymmv. On your own time, there are a number of things you can do as well.
There's only a few things going on in the CF book space these days. The Classic WACK is now a 3-part weightlifting experience ( http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/Books). I learned on these books back in the day, and they will make you better, guaranteed. Sort of like Dave Watts said, the way to learn CFCs is really learning object oriented development. For that, I'd recommend the Head First series (eather Java or Object Oriented Analysis and Design). Books like Code Complete or The Pragmatic Programmer are pretty language agnostic and fantastic. I have long said that learning another language is probably the best thing you can do to be a better CF programmer. Mine was classic ASP (yuck!), but it did make me better. If you like podcasts, Helms & Peters have a great archive of their conversations that are worth a couple listens (helmsandpeters.com). Hal has a great way of describing OO principals. Also the old CF Weekly ( coldfusionweekly.com) podcast archives are out there, Matt & Peter have a lot of experience with Mach-II and hit on that and other related topics. Note that both of these are old and closed down, but the content is good. The current CF world podcast is CFConversations (cfconversations.com) and has been great so far. If you're into presentations, nothing beats Charlie's UGTV ( carehart.org/ugtv/) - it's a collection of all the recorded CF usergroup and conference presentations over the last few years that he could find. Use the search to find the right subjects and also the presenters you like. I know there are a number of general framework conversations and good OO stuff. Finally, get a good feed reader or aggregator and subscribe to blogs. There's a lot of good information out there. Read as many as you can. Dang, thought I had one more thing to say... meh. nathan strutz http://www.dopefly.com/ On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Jeff Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good morning folks, > > I'm curious to get this groups ideas on ideas, conferences, books, > training, etc.. etc.. for learning the more advanced topics of Coldfusion.. > mainly encapsulating code in CFCs and possibly frameworks. more CFC but also > frameworks would be nice. > > I'm aware of the main conferences.. MAX, CFUNITED, CFOBJECTIVE. > > I've mainly used Ray's RIAFORGE examples as to playing around with CFCs, > caching them in the APPLICATION scope to gain efficiencies, etc.. It would > be great to learn more about the beginning design of CFCs to be created.. > Almost design patterns around beginning your CF project. > > Can anyone recommend good books on Amazon that are mainly CFC focused? Hal > Helms' book "Discovering CFCs: ColdFusion MX Components" seems a bit old as > its from 2002. > > Hal's personal site ( > http://www.halhelms.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=training.detail ) has the > training course of "Object Oriented Design and Development with CFCs:" which > might be what I'm topics wise after. > > Again CFCs and even frameworks. Any Ideas? Thanks! > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:310890 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
