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Today marks the beginning of the end for my career with ColdFusion.  In 1998, I started doing web development with ColdFusion 3.11 for Workgroups on a single server.  Today, I manage eight web servers running ColdFusion MX 6.1 and 7, but I do very little coding myself.  For many reasons, none of them technical, my department decided that we needed to plan a migration away from ColdFusion.  Today, our development standards meeting adjourned after making the decision that we would move to Microsoft Visual Studio and the ASP.NET platform for all new development.  Legacy applications will be rewritten as time permits, which means that ColdFusion will continue to exist in our environment for a while yet, but the die is cast.

I'm amazingly sanguine about the whole thing, probably because I do so little coding now, but there was a time when this would have caused dramatic increases in my blood pressure.  God has been preparing me for this day for a long time now, because for years I was adamant about continuing to code.  Isn't it nice when you can look back, see the road you've travelled, and recognize it as the only one that could have brought you safely to the point where you now stand?  God has been doing that with my career now for a long time, and it is simply amazing.