Bit of a late new years resolution really. Blog More. About worthwhile stuff. But what stuff? Well a little background and introduction...
After a Multimedia Systems course at Uni I came out as a jack-of-all-trades, not really great at anything. Got my first real job as an artworker for Kidz Biz (a UK toy company). It turned into a bit of an all-rounder position, I was artworker, designer, sysadmin, video editor and towards the end, web designer. But they were hideous creations if I'm honest, I'm glad there's no record of them now.
I left toys and moved into houses. Berkeley Homes. I was now a "Web Manager". Sounds good, but it meant admin monkey. Just updating the website through their CMS (all running on ColdFusion BTW) got very bored very quickly. I finally got the chance to make a microsite, but again I made some terrible all-image Fireworks sliced table thingy. Nasty. I wanted to leave, but the Berkeley Group (the parent company) IT department saved me and took me onboard. Then I started to get some proper work and I steered myself into standards compliance. XHTML and CSS became my thing. Anyway, the IT team expanded and they hired an in-house ColdFusion Developer to expand the public websites and intranet. That was John Beynon.
So there it began, work came flooding in and we needed some more CF skills on the team. I was up for learning a server-side language so I became John's Padawan
A couple of years past we had a tight little team, I learnt the basics of CF, enough to build websites using the CMS (GOSS's iCM). But it was time for a change.
I moved on at the beginning of this year to HostelBookers.com where I'm a (junior) ColdFusion Developer, working under Lead Developer Kev McCabe (aka Big Mad Kev). I'm gradually working my way around the "names" of the UK CF scene :)
So, now being a ColdFusion Developer by trade I thought it was time to blog properly. I still feel pretty junior but I hope some of the things I'll blog about in the future will help other newbies. (I know there's plenty of great info out there, but I thought a little more, from a fellow beginners/junior point of view, couldn't hurt). Although saying that, I have dabbled in the more advanced parts and OO bits like beans, etc. Actually, I'm quite the bean maker at HostelBookers, just call me Heinz :)
But it won't be CF only. There's lots of cool stuff to play with and blog about. Learning Flex and AIR look like fun, so I'm reading Colin Moock's Essential ActionScript 3.0 as my commuting book . I'll be blogging about that when start doing the Flash-y stuff. JavaScript-wise I used a fair bit of Spry and Google Maps API at Berkeley and now again at HostelBookers so when I do funky stuff with them, I'll be sure to blog it. And of course my first love, CSS, the nightmare that it is can be.
Also a few off-topic bits like my MAME cabinet project, which I'm going to try and run on Ubuntu, more on that later.
So HELLO WORLD. It's about time I came out of the shadows and stopped just lurking on other CF'ers blogs.
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