Nice read Robin... Keep forgetting you worked at Zivo! hehe...I remember Zivo aswell, mainly because they where praised by Bill Gates (which every aust web agency i knew of went...bah..lucky bastards.. that i always wanted to work for them as i thought that was the "big time") (hehe i once went for an interview at their brisbane office clemenger or whatever it was, it was for an ASP role..i had no idea how to code in ASP but thought i could sell them on coldfusion and thus spent the whole interview pitching CFML...can't imagine why never got the role...)
See thats the kinda stories i was hoping for, come on kiddies, share your CF+ME history without a pissing contest implemented... [EMAIL PROTECTED] always you need to cut the dosage down on the medication hehehe. On 7/6/05, Robin Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kym Kovan wrote: > > > What I do > > remember well is the Spectra course with Ben Forta sitting in, that was > > fun :-) > > The first CF thing I went to was the launch of CF 2 at Darling Harbour, > which was also Nick McNaughton's first gig as Allaire Asia/Pacific. I > was at Andersen Consulting working for Westpac at the time, and CF was > on the cards for the Westpac Internet banking site (Westpac did use CF > for a little while but on a later project). It was funny because Nick > had arranged free passes to Segaworld for all attendees, and I know of > several friends of developers who developed a sudden "interest" in web > development that lasted for about 40 minutes. I can remember Jeremy and > Nick racing each other at Segaworld and Jeremy looking wryly amused :-) > > Shortly afterwards we arranged to have John Desborough, the author of > QUE's "Using ColdFusion 2.0" give three days of training back at the > North Sydney office. He ran out of stuff to talk about after the first > day and spent the rest of the time telling us stories about junkets with > oil executives in Texas. > > I remember being only so-so impressed with CF at the time - coming from > C and VB it was hard to love a language that only had includes as a way > to reuse code (I remember at a later date hearing of custom tags coming > out and thinking that was what had been needed). We eventually went > with ASP, but we had to go to Microsoft's office in Epping and sit there > while they burned a CD of IIS 1.0 and ASP - this was from the gold > master candidate :-) > > I didn't encounter CF again until 1999 when I was at ZIVO working as > technical lead on the BHP Steel project and we went to a Spectra > presentation by Charles Teague - we were really excited. Charles and > Libby (then product manager for Spectra) came over to ZIVO for coffee, > and as it turned out a pre-qualifying job interview - Allaire/Macromedia > later hired Lucas Sherwood (Firmware), Pete Farland (who went on to > co-author Flash Remoting) and me, all people Charles and Libby met on > that tour. > > The Spectra training was great - it started with an act of incredible > instructional courage when Geoff started delivering the course to > Charles Teague with Ben Forta heckling from the back :-) Charles > eventually took over, more out of impatience with the course material, > and we all continued the training with Charles up front, I think the > only time he taught the Spectra course. I discovered that Ben Forta was > a big Hitch-hikers fan at lunch, and met Kym, Fiona and I think Justin > at Ben's talk at the CFUG that night on WAP (reminds me of a slogan the > RocketBooters thought up recently "iMode - Colour WAP" :-). > > Ah... good times. And by the way, I have THE LAST CF5 quick-reference > tshirt to give away as a door prize at the Sydney anniversary meeting, > so you better RSVP soon. > > Cheers, > Robin > > http://www.rocketboots.com.au > Professional Services for Macromedia Development Teams > > --- > You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ > -- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.mossyblog.com http://www.flexcoder.com ("Waiting for FLEX NCL to arrive") --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
