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 36 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.
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
ColdFusion 10 is Released!
Its out of beta and up for grabs...ColdFusion 10 has been released! (I make a small appearance in the intro video as well.)
I wrote about ColdFusion 10 back in February read my thoughts.
read the rest (posted 5/15/12)
Crack your laptop open, we'll crack a beer at the Hackathon
My buddy, Adam Tuttle, has organized a Hackathon at cf.Objective() to code for his CFScript Community Components project. The hackathon is taking place at 7pm on Friday. That sounds like a time when its better to have a beer in hand. So, I spoke to some good people at Adobe and they agreed...
read the rest (posted 5/14/12)
10 Little Ones: Automatic CFC Init (#5)
One of the language enhancements in ColdFusion 10 beta is implicit/automatic constructors for CFC's. In short this means that if a component has defined properties and there is no init function ColdFusion will look to match the parameters passed in to the properties. Lets take a look at how...
read the rest (posted 5/1/12)
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
Since 2010 I have been 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)
In 2012 I will be speaking at cf.Objective for the first time on Searching ORM: First Why, Then How.
I finished in the runner up spots for Best of ColdFusion 9 contest run by Raymond Camden for my SpreadEdit entry.
