One response to “IndyEthnicFood 1999-2016 – a chronological history”

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   JR Baldwin

   October 11, 2024

   For the nerds out there, I used an HTML markup language called ColdFusion (CFML – Cold Fusion Markup Language) to code and manage IndyEthnicFood. ColdFusion was connected to a Microsoft SQL Server database engine, driving the data interactions and statistics – of which there were many. I spent hundreds of unpaid hours writing, testing, and deploying ColdFusion code and SQL Server stored procedures. Managing the IndyEthnicFood system was, more or less, a daily part of my activities for about 13 years (and, 1 divorce, 1 marriage, 4 relocations, 3 jobs).

   ColdFusion, released in 1995, was one of the first HTML markup languages designed specifically for developing web sites. I was one of the of original beta testers of ColdFusion in 1994-1995. In 1995, I pioneered deployment of a geology research oriented ColdFusion web site service connected to a database (Windows NT and 95 server) at the U. of Utah (https://egi.utah.edu).

   For many years, ColdFusion was my bread and butter. I programmed dozens of extranet and intranet systems between 1995 and 2016. Now owned by Adobe, Cold Fusion is still supported and being used.

   The history of ColdFusion is a fascinating story: https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/building-coldfusion-for-the-web/

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