The Livitek Journal

I got started in web development way back in 1995 or 1996 when I was an intern at Castle and Cooke Homes Hawaii. The CEO wanted to see what this web thing was all about so my boss and I worked up a sample sight. They took this design to a local company and had a web site made. It was ugly table based layout with spacer gifs and everything aweful that was the web at that time.

A couple of years later I had a fresh new Computer Science degree and was the intranet webmaster at my next job, Bank of Hawaii.  We used classic asp but I remember one of my coworkers tried out this thing called Coldfusion. He gave it a pass, but after I took up his projects when he left, he wasn't that good, so it figures "he wouldn't know a snake if it bit him". I also dabbled in some Lotis notes development at that time as well, strange but oddly productive.

My next job was also classic asp and started to use a little .net. I was already going towards being an anti MS guy because I had been reading Slashdot for many years and providing linux solutions for churches and groups that had no money. I did the asp thing but did not enjoy the tedium of vbscript and all that is involved in just getting records from a database.

About 2005 I grew restless and needed a change. I interviewed for a web developer job that required Coldfusion. I didn't really know coldfusion, but I was otherwise qualified. The company hired me based on getting to know me at the interview and not just what was on my resume. They knew that CF was easy to learn and boy were they right. The heavens opened and I saw the light. I could be so productive. I had learned to code with Dreamweaver years ago and was immediately able to use it to code coldfusion.

I started with version 6.1 and have upgraded twice and now code on 8.