Thank you all for your responses! Many of you mentioned buying a framework. We actually own two already ... Mere Mortals and Visual ProMatrix. We never implemented either one ... mostly because of time constraints. (One of those things where you just don't have the manpower (or money) to switch your entire system over.)

I have looked through Mere Mortals to try to get a better concept of how the data access tier works but its fairly hard to dig into that one piece without a greater understanding of the overall framework. It'd be so much faster to get some "spoon feeding" rather than digging into it all ourselves.

Anyhow, thank you for your suggestions. FoxUser Groups was something I hadn't thought of so I'll look into that. The SouthWest Conference sounds great, unfortunately (I say that somewhat tongue in cheek), I'll be in Australia installing the personnel records portion of our system in our office there. Otherwise, I definitely would've attended. However, Craig, I may take you up on the bit about answering some questions if you don't mind.

Thanks again.


>We're a small shop with 4 developers. We need some training in n-tier development. (We have a general concept but not a working knowledge of how the pieces all fit.) We also could use advice in regards to moving our current system (built on an in-house framework) towards an n-tier system.
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>We have hired a few companies in the past for different consulting type roles and have paid large amounts of money to wind up greatly disappointed in the "advice" they actually offered. In fact, they never really gave a recommendation in regards to what we acutally hired them for.
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>We've looked into hiring the likes of Kevin McNeish or EPS to provide mentoring/training but the cost is hard for our accountants to swallow.
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>I'm wondering what other options are available. Can someone recommend a reliable group that can provide quality training/mentoring at a reasonable cost? (I guess that's what everyone wants right?)
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>Thanks much.