I got hired in mid 96 as a C/C++ programmer at an NH based video conferencing company. They basically handed me all the little jobs that no one was getting to. One day the IT manager walked into my office thru the CF 1.5 disk on my desk and said we need an intranet for the accounting department. I was hooked immediately. I couldn't believe how easy it was to get a Web app talking to a DB. Back then it wasn't even CFML it was DBML.
Within a year I transitioned to almost all web based work and haven't written a line of code for a Windows app or driver since. D -----Original Message----- From: Mary Jo Sminkey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 2:44 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Your First ColdFusion App The thread on how you got into computers made me think about how I got into ColdFusion as well, since for me, they were very much tied together. Anyone else remember their first CF (or perl, or whatever you started with) web application? I started doing web pages back when we got excited at being able to change the background color of the page from grey to white. ;-) The dog sport I competed in (agility) was very new at the time and I realized quickly that the internet could be a great way to share information. I was collecting training articles, links to any other site people did, etc. and it rapidly become the "place" for information on the sport. We had a lot of different clubs putting on shows and starting to give classes, but finding information on these was often difficult and I was getting frustrated at missing shows just due to not knowing about them. So I put up a page on my site where people could email me their event or class listing and I'd add it to the page. It quickly became so much work to keep updated that I took on several volunteers, one for each of the listings to help me with it. About the same time I had gotten a copy of Homesite by Allaire and was an avid user. In browsing their support forums, I kept seeing mention of this "ColdFusion". I'd had my run-ins with Perl and was currently working on my CS degree so really quickly figured out that what CF offered was exactly what I needed, and had HUGE potential for the future. I re-wrote those pages so no longer did I have manually update them and it was just an epiphany for me, how easy and quick it was to build something like that. The rest, as they say, is history. But the cool thing is, those very first applications I wrote are still online and still serving the agility community, although now run by someone else. Of course, I shudder to think of how that code looks, as like most newbies my early code was not particularly clean or well done, but as far as I know, they really haven't modified it much over the years. So kind of neat that it's still out there churning away. Any other cool stories to share? --- Mary Jo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:259635 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
