Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Fabio Fidanza asks “Do you know/practice computer programming? if yes, what’s your favourite language? Thanks!”

Well, I used to, sort of, but I haven’t in ages. Back in the 90s, I found myself at the right place and at the right time. It was right at the beginning of the World Wide Web, and my roommate at the time developed a tool known as Cold Fusion. Today it is owned by Adobe.

It was a markup language with elements of a programming language that allowed you to easily and quickly integrate databases with websites, which was a difficult thing to do at the time.

When he was building the product, some companies asked to have websites created with the tool, and he didn’t want to do it, so I began using the tool to develop these data-driven websites, and long with SQL statements of varying complexity.

I did this for a while, but I soon brought other people on board, and my focus shifted to running the company, not doing the actual programming.

I’ve considered going back to goofing around with some simple scripting to do things on my own network, but I usually never get around to it because I have other things going on.

So the short answer is I did in the past, but I haven’t done so in a long time.