When did we talk about dogs in space? -----Original Message----- From: G Money [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 12:09 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Don't read this!
That's all well and good for CF-Talk, but for this list, we need to know: - Liberal or Conservative? - Evolution or Creationism? - Right to die or life at all costs? - Stem cells? - Gay marriage? - Dogs in space? - Ritual sacrifice? - The Loch Ness Monster? On 8/23/06, Jeff Guillaume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "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:214030 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
