I write ColdFusion (my expertise) in the middle; jQuery, CSS & media queries on the front with MySQL and SQLServer for data storage. I've worked with others but those are the technologies I've enjoyed using in the past two years. I write, speak at conferences and enjoy making software.
I am a 37 year old happily married father of two daughters living in Washington, DC. Currently I am a Senior Applications Architect at
FirstComp. In early 2010 I co-founded 16applications which makes
Checklists software. I am also a huge Arsenal fan — having grown up in Highbury, London — and I play soccer every week. All views are my own.
Blog
I started my technical blog in April 2007 and have enjoyed writing about ColdFusion, jQuery and Flex ever since (but mostly ColdFusion).
Writing on ORM
Highlights
Recent
bear: ORM text-based diagram
I'm pleased to announce an open-source mini-project that I have been working on to make ORM relationships easier to view. Its called bear.
bear takes metadata from ColdFusion ORM entities and turns it into a readable text-based diagram of the relationships and properties.
Features
Works...
read the rest (posted 10/28/12)
debugClean Version 2
I added a few new features for version 2 of debugClean based on some of the features added to ColdFusion Builder 2.0:
Opens in a view.
Click on each issue and have the file open up with the line highlighted.
The issues are listed in reverse order. This means that when you click on each item...
read the rest (posted 9/13/12)
Presentations from RIACon
Here are my two presentations from RIACon:
Searching ORM
Intro to ORM: 15 things about ORM
read the rest (posted 8/7/12)
Company Plug
My wife and I co-founded a cloud based software company called 16applications in 2010. Our first product is Checklists.
Presentations
2010
I gave two presentations at CFUnited in July.
10 15 things you should know about ORM was an introducion for developers to the wonderful and fun world of using ORM in development.
ColdFusion One Liners was based on the same presentation at CFinNC but with some new material and adjustments based on feedback. CFUnited was a great conference with some fantastic sessions and conversations with other developers.
2009
I gave a presentation on
ColdFusion One Liners at the CFinNC conference. I really enjoyed giving this presentation that shows the power of ColdFusion in one line intermingled with comedic one liners. The conference was great.
2008
My first time speaking at a conference proved to be a little nerve racking, satisfying and fun. I gave two presentations on
Creating, Manipulating and Printing PDFs and
Intro to CFML as a language. Go here for the
presentations and code.
Recognition
From 2010 to June, 2012 I was an Adobe Community Professional.
I contributed a lot to the ColdFusion 8 (Scorpio) beta process and got a mention on the credits page (ColdFusion Administrator > Blue I > About CF)
I finished in the runner up spots for Best of ColdFusion 9 contest run by Raymond Camden for my SpreadEdit entry.
