I was a designer and started doing websites back in 1995. In 1999 started up a website called cmcentral.com (still around) with a friend of mine and we wanted to have something that would allow us to have the artist information in a database and not have to create all these static pages.
Low and behold our webhost had ColdFusion 4.0 runnning so I got Forta's book and jumped right in. It was crazy since I knew nothing about programing. Moved from access to Sql Server 7.0 after a couple of months and off we went. That website was sold to a guy 3 years later who later sold it to Salem broadcasting... which I had held on to it since it probably would be a good money maker now. J.J. On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Mary Jo Sminkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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:259661 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
