In 1998/99, while i was doing my masters (Masters of Business Studies, specialising in IS/ eCommerce) in University College Dublin there was a one semister course called "e-Commerce Infrastructure and Systems Development". The practical part of the course (one hour a week for 12 weeks) taught us how to make dynamic websites with this program called ColdFusion 4.0.
When i finished uni in sept 2000, i got a job for a new mobile phone company 4 days a week while i lectured in the uni one day a week. The job was doing some html for a dynamic web app being built by a big contracting company. A few months into this, i went into the IT director and told him that the app that was being built was pants. I used CF as an example of how this app lacked the basic things... like a native oracle driver and error trapping (with this app, the whole site would fall over if one error happened on one page). The company was getting paid about AU$2000 a day to develop this heap of crap, and these were mission critical apps for the company- the Customer care intranet that provisioned phones, the website to login and view your bill online etc. So the IT director turned around to me and said "we have only a few months before we go live. Go buy some servers and build the whole thing in CF". After i poo'd my pants I did it, and it worked. That's how i started in CF. Gav On 06/07/05, Scott Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Been thinking about good ol CF's B'day (aww our wittle babey has grown so > much). > > So much so, i wonder out of our little list, who's been using CFMX the > longest? > > So, break out your tape measure folks as we need a ruling on this :) > (actually i am curious) > > Mine would be 10 April 1997, i remember it well. It was a clear sunny > day, birds where singing, folk were dancing because it is infact the > 100th day in the Gregorian Calendar. To my left was a co-worker whom i > know had worked on CF at a small company called "WebRaven" and to my > right was a model naked as the day she was born, eagerly awaiting her > photoshoot to commence (while the photographer was busy fumbling > around with camera lenses). > > There i sat, looking at this rotating banner script wondering why on > earth someone thought it was a good idea to surround #pound# symbols > and what did it mean..was it a secret code for something else? > -- > Regards, > Scott Barnes > http://www.mossyblog.com > > --- > 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/ > --- 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/
