On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Philip Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone, > > After what seems like 100 years reading the archives, I just joined the > mailing list and wanted to introduce myself. > > My name is Philip Kaplan and I've been a ColdFusion programmer since around > 1996. I'm sure others discovered CF this way -- IIS hadn't yet been > invented so I was using a web server called Orielly Website Pro, which > happened to come with ColdFusion built-in. I was in college on a summer > internship (at Booz Allen & Hamilton) and my employer (thank goodness) told > me to learn it. > > I've built a lot of sites in ColdFusion since then. The most well-known > was > a site called Fuckedcompany.com that tracked the collapse of the (first?) > dot-com bust. One of the newer CF sites I built is a photo-sharing social > network at www.mobog.com. It's the first CF site I've load balanced > across > multiple servers, which is fun. Incidentally it's hosted on > www.gogrid.comwhich is a could-hosting thingamajig. Happy to share my > (mostly positive, > some negative) experiences with it. > > For a living, I'm the founder and president of an ad network called > AdBrite. AdBrite was initially developed by my business partner, a PHP > guy, > so no CF there. We have about 115 employees and are based in San > Francisco. I still get to use CF at the day-job to prototype stuff and > build some internal reporting tools. > > Anyway, hello everyone! > > Philip > Nice one Philip! I use to check out FC all the time. What a great site that was. And of course I stumble on some of the Ask Pud blog entries ;-) Welcome to the list. Casey ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:312100 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
