When I started coding ColdFusion it was not even on my radar, nor was web development.

I needed an internship badly the summer of my junior - senior year at college and had exhausted most my resources with no luck. I received no call backs from intern applications to random tech companies and had no leads in what exactly I wanted to do after school.

That's when a friend in one of my senior project classes said that the place he worked "Web Services @ Hamilton College" was looking for interns. I applied for the position and was called back immediately for an interview. My friend had mentioned that the position was for a "ColdFusion developer" so the night before the interview I took some online lessons and read up on ColdFusion just so I was not going into the interview blind.

The interview was going great when I eventually was asked..."so have you ever used ColdFusion?"...I replied..."Sure, just a little...I am cfsetting and cfdumping and stuff." That response which got everyone within earshot laughing would eventually go down as legend. Needless to say I got the position as a junior developer and the rest is history.

I spent my days as an intern learning CF and working on small web applications and scripts. The work experience I gained at Hamilton College programming web applications and maintaining CF code landed me the position I am in now at Ravenglass Technologies a year and a half later.

ColdFusion has shown me that programming web applications and systems can be fun and rewarding and that it is what I want to do for the rest of my life, and best of all ColdFusion has lead me to a great career at a great company.

Thank you ColdFusion!

-Isaac

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