Cause for Celebration

Today marks my year anniversary at Digital Positions. How I survived David, Beth, and Ben’s ‘yellow’¹ approach, not to mention Eric’s phone voice, I’ll never know. But here I am, still going strong.

Has it really been a year? It feels as if I just walked through the door yesterday. But looking back I can’t believe how much has happened in the past year and how much I have grown as a developer. I have gone from being a strictly ColdFusion programmer to a much more well-rounded developer. Of course ColdFusion is still a huge part of my skill set and I have ramped up my knowledge by delving deep into i3SiteTools, DP’s own site management system, utilizing the power of CFCs, and getting my ColdFusion MX 7 Developer certification.

However, at Digital Positions I have had the chance to get involved in much more than the ColdFusion world alone. I have had the opportunity to be a part of the RIA movement by helping develop an AJAX based online application and assisting in developing a soon to launch Flex shopping cart application. I have also had the delight of becoming the lead here for all things CSS. Prior to my time here at DP, my experience with CSS was simply stylizing font and now I am creating cross-browser compliant table-less layouts left and right, and loving it.

Looking back, the past year has been a good one. And looking forward I am excited about things to come. In addition to more RIA apps coming our way, we are busy preparing for i3SiteTools going open source. There is a lot going on here at DP and I am grateful to be a part of it. Yes, it’s even worth putting up with Eric’s phone voice.

1. All DP employees have their own Herrmann Brain Dominance profile. Being a detail oriented ‘green’ planner, I’m not always on the same wavelength as those ‘yellow’ holistic conceptualizers.