How I Got Started With ColdFusion
(This morning, I was amazed to read how similar some of my "How I Got Started With ColdFusion" story is to one of my CF idols, Ray Camden. SEE his story here. I hope he'll forgive me for copying and editing the first two paragraphs below...)
A week or so ago Steve Bryant suggested that August 1st be a day for us in the community to share how we got started in ColdFusion.
I began my college career in 1992 studying computer science. However, after a year or two I found myself dissatisfied with what I was learning (and finding that my 'good at math' skills hit a brick wall with Calculus 3). I switched to Psychology (with a minor in computer science) and found myself (and my grades) much improved. I couldn't escape my love of computers though.
After graduation, I was hired by a small, local ISP in my home town of York, PA (Cyberia Communications). I was hired as Technical and Customer Support Manager. We also did some commercial Web design and hosting and our webserver software was O'Reilly's WebSite which came with a free (limited?) copy of an early version of ColdFusion. We started to receive requests from our Web design customers for non-static, database-driven websites and Web-based applications and, as I was one of the only employees with programming experience, I quickly learned CF and the rest, as they say, is history: I've been primarily a ColdFusion developer ever since...about fifteen years.