Hello, my name is Travis...

And I'm an idiot savant (minus the savant).
I've been building dynamic websites since 2001. I began using ASP classic, today I primarily use ColdFusion. I began using ColdFusion just before MX6 was released by Macromedia. Currently I use 9 at work, and 8 for personal work.

Why another blog?

I see a lot of blogs by a lot of very smart people doing extraordinary things. I'm not going to kid myself and lie to you; this is not one of those blogs. I'm not going to do anything ground breaking here. I will simply blog about what I'm learning. Some things will be pretty basic as I learn new technologies, others may be somewhat advanced as I do something new with technologies I already know. Some people will learn from my mistakes and benefit from my mucking around. Hopefully though, most will roll their eyes and comment that I'm doing it wrong and show me a better way.

What am I learning?

Well, everything. I'm pretty sharp with ColdFusion, but I'm not the best. I'm actively learning Flex, ActionScript, PL/SQL, java, .net, jQuery, and a few other things.

What tools do I use?

Groove Salad - Music to sooth the savage A.D.D.
Safari books online
Adobe's CS4 Web Premium
Adobe's CS3 Web Premium at home (I prefer this over CS4, it seems to run smoother)
Toad for Oracle
Flash Builder 4 Standard

Projects

Canned Radio
Planescape Data Services and Scripting
Paradigm Shift Linkshell for FFXI