Personally, I prefer teaching and writing to just doing code. I love to write code as well, but sharing CF (and AIR, jQuery,etc) with others to me is just much more rewarding. :)
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Roger Austin <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 4/3/2010 10:33 AM, Raymond Camden wrote: >> >> Remember that the book is for beginners, so a 'rehash of the basics' >> is a bit unfair. If you _know_ CF, then you probably want to wait till >> the 3rd volume where more advanced topics are. If you _dont_ know CF, >> then I think the 1st volume is excellent. Of course, I'm fairly >> biased. > > I have great admiration to someone who is so knowledgeable about a > subject (any subject) in depth, but can write a beginner book on the > subject that makes sense to a beginner. > > Some of the worst instructors I have had have been experts in the > field I was studying. One physical chemistry prof comes to mind. And > a quantum physics prof was a colleague of Fermi and he was an idiot > when it came to instruction. Ray seems to be one of the good ones > for ColdFusion who can explain stuff without making you feel like an > idiot. [Either that or he has a great editor. ;)] > > Thanks to all authors who publish on ColdFusion and related topics. > Writing a book (or an article) is a labor of love. > -- > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/a4/60 > Twitter: http://twitter.com/RogerTheGeek > MissHunt: http://www.misshunt.com/ (Home of the Clean/Dirty Magnet) > NCDevCon: http://ncdevcon.com/ 2010 Raleigh ColdFusion Conference > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:332560 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
