What are good resources to learn Coldfusion for a job application...

Question

The job title is "ColdFusion Developer." I have bit's HTML and Javascripting experience, but mostly have worked in the "harder" languages such as C and C++ with occational flurries of assembly. I'm currently employeed, but in the current job climate I figure it can't hurt to be looking around and applying for other positions. Plus according to the friend who sent me the job posting, it is suppose to pay "very well." They left my office to work for this company themself so I figure it's a reasonable evaluation of the company.

I don't know if there are any free tools that I could use to get my feet wet and bone up for an interview, or what sort of literature is decent for the ColdFusion. Plus any ideas on how to tune a resume for it would also be helpful.

Answer 1

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/index.html

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/?view=gettingstarted

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=1489920&loc=en_us (MARCH 17)

http://www.carehart.org/ugtv/

http://www.carehart.org/cf411/

Answer 2

http:www.easycfm.com

www.forta.com

www.cfdev.com

Answer 3

Learning ColdFusion syntax or the language can be trivial, that can be learned on the sites provided above...Generally ColdFusion is used as the presentation layer of some sort of web application, so you need to know a lot more than how to use a cfset or cfloop. You need to have a very strong foundation in DOM development (HTML, DHTML) as well as CSS, JavaScript(jQuery, prototype), Ajax. If you have these mastered or at least a very good understanding than I would consider looking into "ColdFusion Development" or any other web development position.

Answer 4

Install it and play with it - use www.gotapi.com for your documentation. It's really easy to pick up by just writing it. One of its strength.