I am with a public university and asked to interview applicants with 
Coldfusion(CF) and Flex skills for an opening. The position requires someone 
who has worked 3-4 years in CF and Flex. 

I was moved into this position and I picked CF/Flex after I started so do not 
have a first hand experience of a CF/Flex interview, though a Web search 
reveals dozens of websites with questions.  


I have worked with Coldfusion 8 and 9 and I know I can ask questions about 
following topics.


1. Check for CF basic understanding, ask about functions which are rarely used 
to test depth of knowledge in CF. 

2. Ask about CFC, Bean, Gateway to test OOP understanding in CF

3. How the facade pattern is used in CF?

4. Recent CF projects of candidate. Question the design, implementation 
decisions and possible performance improvements in the projects

5. Ask them to develop a Bean on whiteboard.

6. Contributions to an open source CF project


Since the opening expects someone with a Bachelor's in Computer Science, I can 
ask the typical questions(algorithms, data structures, design patterns, OOP, 
contract by design, agile programming concepts, Operating System and Networking 
concepts, information security, bit fiddling in C, RTTI idiom in C++ assuming 
candidate lists C,C++ on his resume).


I realize a Web search can reveal lot more questions, but since I have not 
interviewed someone for a CF background before, I want to know if items 1-6 
listed above are sufficient or do they need more additions? 
Are they too simple that most people who have worked 12-18 months in CF would 
know?


I do not want to make the interview unduly hard or easy.


Any suggestions would be appreciated.


Thanks


P.S. I went through the usual books Career cup, Programming Interviews exposed 
and their websites to learn how interviews are done in most places today.



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