Tuesday, August 2, 2011

How I Got Started in ColdFusion

My 'How I got started' is going to be a lot shorter than most people but here it is none the less.
Since a younger age (I say younger cause some might say I still am young :P) I've always been interested in programming. It started with a close friend giving me simple programming task in C++, then VB.NET in high school and other side projects and languages I dabbled with.

On leaving high school (2008) I was unsure of what I wanted to do but eventually decided to go to university. After attending university for 6 months (2009) and not agreeing with the methods of teaching (You sit there and listen for hours on end and then just teach yourself when you get home. I never put anything said in class in to practice as we were too busy talking....) so I started looking for a job.

I applied for a junior software testing role in which I was successful (2010). After a few months I started to help fix very basic bugs and problems. These were my first dealings with ColdFusion. After 6 months of being a software tester I applied for a software development role in the same company and I was again successful. I've now been in the role for a year and two months mainly doing ColdFusion development but as well as some Flex/Action Script.