I write ColdFusion (my expertise) in the middle; jQuery, ExtJS and Flex/Air 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 am a 34 year old happily married father of two daughters living and working in Washington, DC. Currently I work for WebFirst a small well run consulting company. I am also a huge Arsenal fan, having grown up in Highbury, London, and I play soccer every week.
Blog
Infinite entities, cfgrid and one cfc to handle the data
While writing SpreadEdit I wanted every entity to be editable via cfgrid. In particular I thought it would be cool to have one cfc on the back end to process the data from cfgrid no matter what entity it was working with. With ColdFusion 9 and ORM this proved possible and is pretty...
read the rest (posted 3/10/10)
Thoughts on first Flex/Air app
Recently I launched my first Flex-based Air application. Here are my thoughts: Flex apps are real apps Previously I thought Flex applications where simply the V in an MVC framework with a bunch of fancy UI widgets. Now I see differently and the value of a Flex MVC framework becomes...
read the rest (posted 3/5/10)
In ColdFusion 9, what isNull() and what is it good for
ColdFusion 9 brings us a new function called isNull. But, you may say ColdFusion doesn't support null's and you would still be mostly right. As of ColdFusion 9 certain objects can be null. Sound tricky? Here are a couple handy uses for isNull. Working with caches When using...
read the rest (posted 2/24/10)
Presentations
2010
I will give two presentations at CFUnited in July.
10 things you should know about ORM will introduce developers to the wonderful and fun world of using ORM in development.
ColdFusion One Liners will be based on the same presentation at CFinNC but with some new material and adjustments based on feedback. Its my first time repeating a presentation and I am looking forward to it. CFUnited is always a great conference and the Landsdowne Resort is a wonderful location.
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.
Recognition
In 2010 I got named 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)
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 and my feedback on the evaluations I got.
I finished in the runner up spots for Best of ColdFusion 9 contest run by Raymond Camden for my SpreadEdit entry.