"Hi everybody!" Okay, now that that's out of the way... I just wanted to introduce myself since I'm going to try to contribute on CF-Talk regularly (no promises).
I started writing ColdFusion in 1999 and have been a full-time CF developer since. I had the pleasure of being trained by Matt Boles way back when (last I heard he is now "principal instructor for the Macromedia Educational Services group"). I worked at StoneAge.com (co-founded by Ben Forta, who often popped in) for several years, and am now at PowerOne Media (CarSite.com). I contributed early on to CFLib.org (isEmail, isZip, isSSN) but in 2002, I started what has become a behemoth "hobby" site which has grown beyond my wildest expectations and is the basis of much of my real-world ColdFusion experience. It's a Harry Potter fan site called HPANA (80,000 registered members and 8-10 million pageviews a month nowadays!). It's completely custom-written, from the news aggregation and content management systems to the forums. Since I started with no money and it quickly grew beyond my hardware's and bandwidth's capability, I learned how to squeeze every ounce of performance from ColdFusion and have used that experience in my day job. (HPANA has since been featured in media like USA Today, Washington Post, New York Times, Movies.com, and is even recognized by JK Rowling as one of her favorite sites. We've also been invited by Warner Bros. to attend the red-carpet premieres of the last two HP movies in London and NY.) My main goal in developing HPANA was to have a kind of ColdFusion playground for myself. Primarily, I wanted to hone my then-budding search engine optimization skills, and I wanted to push myself to learn the latest technology and CF techniques. So... that's me, for starters. I hope to give back in some small way to a community that's always been so helpful. Cheers. --- Jeff Guillaume Kazoomis Online Media http://www.kazoomis.com HPANA (The Harry Potter Automatic News Aggregator) http://www.hpana.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:214022 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
