Hi "John", If you must know, I am just a puney, little, cubicle ASP developer doing custom development for a financial company out of the East Coast. You can decide whether or not to "read my advice" based on that information alone. If you want to find out more about me, you will need to formally ask me out and at least offer me a free meal and drinks! ;-)
In all seriousness, while I am Microsoft-bias, I am a technology guy who just loves technology (maybe that's why I have no girlfriend! ha! j/k) Having said that, I have attended a Cold Fusion 101 class held by Fig Leaf during the "Allaire" days. I must say that I found the class to be both interesting and educational. Let me also say that my instructor really knew his stuff!! I have have found this forum to be a place where people who are interested in CMS, develop for CMS systems, or are in the market for a CMS, can come to gather information, ask for unbiased opinions and just learn. Because of this, I thought it was important to let people know the relationships that companies who hold user groups or seminars have with vendors. I have nothing against Fig Leaf, Macromedia (I love Flash!) or any other company out there. It's great that so many companies are out there and technology continues to grow. The reason why I even responded to this thread initially was that because I have taken a class at Fig Leaf, I am still signed up on their mailing list. I received an email a couple days ago mentioning this CMS seminar and also mentioning that CommonSpot was offering a "buy one, get one free deal" if making a CMS purchase by a certain date (BTW, I didn't know that McDonald's sold CMS! hahaha.. jk!). Maybe I am totally wrong in thinking that there is a relationship between the two companies but nevertheless, I thought that my fellow developers or CMS-interested folk would want to know that before signing up for this seminar. Maybe I'm wrong. I did mean well and if people on the list want to take me seriously or "read my advice", that's totally up to them (keep in mind that I don't take myself seriously most of the time). I was just trying to do a good deed. I didn't think that Macromedia would be after me. Better make a call to Mr. Gates for backup! "Chris" AKA Agent 008 :) -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
