How I Got Started in ColdFusion

Well, I discovered TODAY that YESTERDAY had been declared "How I Got Started In ColdFusion Day" - so as is often the case, I'm a day late.

I just wish I were only a dollar short - but that's another story. I started at Ohio Univeristy in March of 1998 (yes, the ColdFusion 2.x days). I'd "heard" about ColdFusion and when asked to create an applicaiton (prototype) of a Course Descriptions applicaiton, CF seemed like a good fit. So I took a surplus desktop computer, made a server out of it (yes, that was in the pre-datacenter days for us) and in a couple of days, I had the application up and running, going from the example code and docs that came in the download. The group the application was for like it, and started using the applicaiton heavily.

With about four days before the trial expired, I went to my boss and encouraged him to purchase the license in an effort to keep the groups work from being in vain . . . He bought it, and thus entered in Ohio University's experience with ColdFusion. I've been using it ever since and have developed hundreds of applications with it since that time. We now have at least a dozen CF servers here now.