I have been trying to write a bunch of intro level tutorials outlining my travels into OO CF land. I had to write a very simple CRUD app for our HR dept that would allow them to list links and documents to our intranet at work. So I took the opportunity to implement the CFCs generated by Brian Rinaldi's Illudium PU-36 Code Generator. http://code.google.com/p/cfcgenerator/

Like all of my projects it has snow balled out of control and now I have working examples of how to use the out of the box CFC's created by Brian's Code Generator as well as examples for ColdSpring, Mach II, Model Glue, Transfer ORM. All are very basic and are very descrete in that the only do one thing. No mixing of concepts or frameworks.

Also of note is that I have gotten into Java hard core. I started doing exploratory searches into Java, IDE's Frameworks and the lot.

I have been messing with the NetBeans IDE and I am really quite please with it. It has a very Visual studio feel to it and the doc and tutorials are very newbie friendly.

What I like the most is that the Java Language itself is pretty friendly. I mean the API is staggering in size but the language is something I was comfortable with thanx to my dealings with ColdFusiob and .NET

Another note of interest is that for the first time I have looked at learning a new language with wonder and awe. I am not intimidated by my ignorance. I am actually motivated by it.

It is like "Huh, what does this do? COOL! I can use that to do this. What does that thing do? You mean I can dump out all my DB records by just doing that? AWESOME!!!!"

The most important thing about learning is ones attitude.

The biggest obstacle to learning is the presumption of knowledge.

Yeah, that is a quote by me. Google it.

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS233US233&q=%22The+biggest+obstacle+to+learning+is+the+presumption+of+knowledge%22&btnG=Search