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"Calling this a 'class' doesn't do justice to it. It's a mind-bending transformation. I paid for this myself and I'm so glad I did. It was the best investment I ever made in myself." - Carletta T

"This class was jammed packed with great information. Hal really makes learning Fusebox very easy. What is very unusual is that the academic learning (traditional) is a very small portion of the class. I left the class with the knowledge to start programming using Fusebox and have implemented it when developing our corporate intranet. Well worth the money!!!" - Rob S

"I think the key to a great class lies in the ability of an instructor to keep a student's attention through careful lesson planning, proper tutelage, and sheer force of personality. Keeping a technical lesson interesting while still churning out the hard facts is a tough job but you did it VERY well and I salute you for the obvious skill you have." - Jim C

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The next Java for CF Programmers class will be held April 19-23 in Arlington, VA. Click here for more info.

Ben Edwards and I will be giving a four-day class in Mach-II in Arlington, VA on June 28 - July 1. We've added a full day to the class at no additional cost to give us more time for individual mentoring. Click here for more info.

I spoke with some Fuseboxers at the recent conference and they told me they needed help explaining the benefits of my FLiP methodology to their managers. I wrote a brief explanation titled "FLiP: A Manager's Guide" that's available here.

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I'm often asked, "Do you provide onsite training?" I certainly do. I offer classes in Java for ColdFusion Programmers, Fusebox 4, Mach-II OO framework, and ColdFusion MX Foundations. Later this year, I'll be offering a "Building J2EE Web Applications" that will focus on Java beans, servlets, and Java Server Pages (JSP)s. If you're interested in having me come to you to teach a class, please send me an email.

If you're interested in writing OO applications using ColdFusion MX, check out Mach-II, developed by Ben Edwards and me. If you're looking for a mature, highly-capable framework for writing procedural applications, check out Fusebox 4.

Speaking of Mach-II, Sean Corfield, Macromedia's Director of Architecture in IT, has written some great stuff about Mach-II, for which Ben and I are most grateful. Check it out at http://www.corfield.org/index.php?fuseaction=machii.main

I've entered the world of bloggers with "Occasional Thoughts" to accompany my "Occasional Newsletter".

The new Techspedition book, Discovering Fusebox 4, is available at www.techspedition.com.

I gave a keynote talk at CFUN-03. The text for that talk is here.

Need to convince your boss to send you to Java training? Here are 10 reasons why it makes sense for your company to send you. If you'd like to see this in PDF, click here.

My book, Discovering CFCs, written with Ben Edwards, is shipping. There's an accompanying e-workbook, Studies in Discovering CFCs, to help you apply what you're learning. Both are available at www.techspedition.com.

Is ColdFusion Dying? That's the provocative title of a newsletter I wrote (if you're not an "Occasional Newsletter" subscriber and would like to be, click here). Rather than take a pro -- or con -- position, I argue that the question deserves a deeper answer. You can read it here.

I have an article on Using Inheritance and Composition with CFCs at Macromedia's Designer/Developer site. Click here to read it.

For a free, sample chapter of Discovering ColdFusion Components, called "An Introduction to CFCs", click here.

Interested in a introductory class in ColdFusion MX? Click here for more info.

Judith and Michael Dinowitz run FusionAuthority, a free newsletter that I subscribe to. In this issue, I have an article called "Ten Deadly Mistakes Fuseboxers Make". [5 May 2002]

I did a talk on methodologies at the recent CFNorth conference. You can download it here. In the NOTES section is the full text of my talk.

Here's a link to an article I wrote for webreference.com on methodologies and Fusebox. Click here.