FlexFusion

Well, not really too little, but hopefully I won’t bore anyone…it’s all great stuff…really
I learned programming in high school, mainly Pascal on UNIX PCs (yes, we all thought that was way too much money to spend on computers that we were just using to type short Pascal programs on), with some Hypercard on Apple II’s, and some TC Logo on any PCs they had lying around. Before this I had really just tinkered with my old Commodore64 and BASIC, so nothing too crazy. Not seeing any of the potential work or monetary gains in this, I switched gears and went with Biology in college. In my junior year, I realized that I really did not like the biology I was learning (that plus my grades weren’t up to par with being that doctor my mum always wanted me to be), I figured it was too late to change course so I might as well finish up and figure out what I wanted to do after graduation.

I ended up going back home and looking for whatever would earn me some cash, that did not involve manual labor (grocery store stocking and assisting my dad with home repairs taught me early about the benefits of an education). I began working as a temp, then worked as a DBA (well, they called me a DBA, but I don’t think MSAccess really counts, but I still keep DBA on the resume ) at a mortgage company. I transitioned to their web department (this involved my boss leaving and them saying “Here, you have to do the web site now as well”). Luckily they hired a company using ColdFusion to develop their external site, as I had been having fun with classic ASP before that.

I ended up getting bored just working on the intranet (they used frontpage to manage it), and asked if the web development company needed any help building the site. Not ones to turn down free coding help, they jumped at the chance. From here I got to see (and learn) some not so useful coding practices for ColdFusion (pound signs everywhere), but hey, it was a start and I did manage to fix them going forward. I began working with CF4.5 with MSAccess as the dB, and was well on my way to becoming the CF Guru I am today.