About

I have been working with web languages since the latter part of the 1990s.  Previous to that I had worked with other programming languages, mostly of an amateur basis.  I found ColdFusion, or ColdFusion found me, while attending a university near my home.  I had fallen to the internet wipeout of 2001 and suddenly needed a piece of paper to prove that I knew what my years of experience showed employers.

I was glad to go back to school, it gave me a chance to bond with my newborn boy as well as meet some new and exciting people.

Some of the people that I met during this oddyssey gave me a chance to work on the university website.  It was built using primarily ColdFusion, so I had to learn quickly.

And I did.

I have used many middle-tier web languages such as PHP and ASP, and many smaller little known ones as well, but I always return to ColdFusion.  I love the language.  There is nothing better to take a business concept, from its basic conception to actual sales all the way through major internet positioning in so very little time. This language is so very agile that it take very little to be able to code in it, but can be so intricate, that you never know if you know everything about it. I can only think of a very few reasons why a company would start on a different platform, or even balk at switching to this robust language. Most if them have to do with lack of dedication to technological resources.

I also love to teach.  I scope the many boards from time to time looking for questions for newbies and veterans alike, whom need some help.  I usually try to include a little explanation about the why that a particular piece of code works, or doesn’t work.  I feel that every programmer will find advances in their field, not in the furthering of their syntax knowledge, but in the gathering of how the syntax represents the underlying programming.

I hope that you will find some benefit to the pages that I will post here. Some things are considered ‘common knowledge’ and some might be considered ‘aha’ moments. But at the very least I hope that they all are beneficial to anyone.