Project TrackNews: From Editor to Programmer

For several years, I've been working with Michael on House of Fusion and Fusion Authority, and most people just assume that I do ColdFusion. In fact, people are genuinely puzzled when I explain to them that I've never coded a line of ColdFusion in my life! They don't understand that you can edit and write articles on a subject if you're a good writer or editor, and if you know enough of the technical lingo to communicate effectively.

Here I've got to give credit where credit is due. My main teacher in the tech arena is my husband, Michael Dinowitz, whose grasp of the structure of information, and of the ColdFusion language, is second to none. I know that Michael can answer any question I have about a technical aspect of an article I'm editing. And through the years, his discussions of ColdFusion and of programming in general have given me an education that most editors never get. But for all my experience on Fusion Authority, I was still sitting on the sidelines, observing, never having built an application for practical use.

That has changed. I am now embarking on a project -- my first ColdFusion application -- called Project TrackNews. This will be a news tracking application to keep tabs on every piece of news and every article that comes in to the magazine, and to assign the articles to an issue. I'm sure I could find a commercial or free application that would do the same thing, but I'm rather excited about the prospect of designing and building this myself. I'll be writing regular reports on the progress of the application and any problems I'm running into. The process should be very instructive -- for me, and perhaps for you too.

And who knows -- maybe in time I'll tackle Flash as well! But that's a project for another day ...

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