Jason,
First off, I suggest you check out the CF-COMMUNITY list. (You can find
more info at www.houseoffusion.com ) That lists tends to deal with more
non-ColdFusion-technical specific issues.
If you want to be a technical guy, I would suggest learning good
database design first (I.E. normal forms, primary keys, foreign keys,
intersection tables, insertion and deletion anomalies, etc...) Then learn
SQL. Then learn good database implementation techniques (I.E. triggers,
stored procedures, etc..). You will probably not be able to pick up one of
those things without also picking some information on another. If you're
anything like me, no matter how much you read up on / research / study good
database design it will not make much sense until you try to apply it to a
real-world situation.
If you want to be on the graphic end of things, I'm not going to be much
help.
At 04:40 PM 06/08/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>I'm fairly new to the Cold Fusion world and am wondering what skill do you
>find compliments CF the most? I have been in IT for a little over 2 years
>now. I started as a Project Manager for a small company, caved into my
>jealousy for those who can develop and began learning web dev. When I was
>learning HTML I found that javascript and photoshop were 2 things that
>complimented HTML very well to give you a full set of tools. I started
>doing web-dev for my career at a company that was Unix based. I found that I
>didn't know my way around Unix so I began learning Unix, Apache, Netscape
>Server, and Korn Shell scripting. I used my web-dev and korn shell scripting
>to build a nice internally used cgi page that moved me into the Cold Fusion
>world. Now I'm wondering what next? I enjoy learning something at work and
>something different at home. What would you suggest for someone who wants to
>build a very broad and firm foundation for web dev? SQL? Flash? Perl? JSP?
>CF Server?
>
>Thanks for your input.
>
>Jason Stevens
>Codesic Consulting
>Kirkland, WA
>
>
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