Here's my story I first started writing CF in 1998/99 for a company called Med-E-Serv. Before My Boss found CF he had written a bunch of utilities in Perl that he used to extend HTML he called them MES-Tags. These Mes-Tags allowed us to include some logic and database connectivity in our HTML pages and all pages with Mes-Tags were parsed by a Perl program before which interpreted the tags. I worked with these Perl extensions to HTML for a few months when he suddenly came in and told me that someone else had the same idea as he did, and introduced me to Cold Fusion. Parsing HTML through Perl was definitely not as easy or as fast as getting an application server to do it.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Barnes Sent: Wednesday, 6 July 2005 8:33 PM To: CFAussie Mailing List Subject: [cfaussie] Re: OT: Oldest CF user here? 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/ Please Note: This communication has been sent on behalf of The Royal Automobile Club of Queensland Limited (RACQ). The information contained in this communication may be privileged and confidential. 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