Introduce yourself

[Steven Neiland]

Welcome to the CFML Apps group. Please take a moment to introduce
yourself here to the other members.

[Steven Neiland]

Hey folks, there are a lot of new faces here so if you have time
please introduce yourself here.

Also while I started this group, I prefer to stay in the background
and let smarter people than me lead the way. So if anyone is
interested in being added to the managers list let me know.

[Sean Corfield]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Steven Neiland
<steven....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey folks, there are a lot of new faces here so if you have time
> please introduce yourself here.

Heh, OK...

So, I'm Sean Corfield and I've been doing open source development for
about 20 years. My early background is in compilers, interpreters and
runtime systems. Several years before Java existed, I helped created a
portable VM for UCSD Pascal's "p-System" and had that O/S running on
80x86 PCs, Sun 4 (SPARC) and Motorola 88000, as well as porting
Microfocus COBOL to the Sun 4 (a.k.a. Sun COBOL 1.0). I started my
open source work by contributing a few bits to the GNU Standard
Template Library for C++ and was a founder of the Boost library
project for C++. I helped with the OpenOffice.org port to the Mac back
in the 1.1 days and the Mono XSP port to the Mac (around the same time
I believe).

I first encountered CFML when I was working at Macromedia, when we
bought Allaire, and as Senior Architect for the IT division I put
together a team to rebuild parts of macromedia.com using Java / JSP on
top of JRun... but the newly installed IT management (from Allaire)
said we should use ColdFusion instead. So my team of Java / C++ folks
dutifully learned CFML and, with one exception, we never looked back.

Since then I've been lead developer on Mach-II and Fusebox, and
contributed to most of the other frameworks in various ways. I've also
released a slew of open source projects of my own, mostly
micro-frameworks (which I believe are the better choice, compared to
bloated, full-stack frameworks :)

These days I'm mostly working in a mixture of Clojure (for the Model)
and CFML (for the View/Controller). I'm Lead Developer for World
Singles LLC - an Internet dating company - and I'm also the CEO of
Railo Technologies, Inc. helping them build a consulting and support
business here in the US.

I think that covers it?
--
Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN
An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/
World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/
Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/

"Perfection is the enemy of the good."
-- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880)

[Edward Trudeau]

Hi, I'm Edward Trudeau - 

I found out about this list because I follow Sean on Twitter and have followed his blog for years.  I'm a mathematician by training, with a heavy focus in computation theory and mathematical logic.  I spent a couple of years teaching in West Africa with the US Peace Corps and then a couple teaching in Japan. I switched into F/T programming with a consultancy in NYC in the mid 90's and started web work about 6 months before Y2K (we figured all those IT budgets were going online after the bug turned out to be a non issue).  I started with CF in the Allaire days and have used it daily (and nightly) since then.  I was an Allaire Certified trainer, then a Macromedia certified dev, but I've let those lapse since Adobe took over (nothing to do with Adobe, that's just the timing of it; I was finishing an MA while working full time, family was starting).

I'm currently the Director of Web Development, Research and Academic Applications at Catholic University in DC, where I've been for the past 8 years.  My interests are wide, but generally I like anything that deals with complex algorithms.  If proofs are involved, that's a big++.  I'm mostly CF/JavaScript these days, but since I'm also an amateur (avid) artist, I do as much as I can in Fireworks, Photoshop, HTML/CSS, 3D modeling tools, graphics pipelines, etc.

I've never been directly involved in an OS project, though I would freely offer anything I've developed that wasn't work-for-hire (i.e., was actually mine to  give).  I'm a big consumer of OS projects, and have learned a ton from them over the years.  Since I'm a teacher at heart, and am actively involved in K-8 curriculum development, I have a great respect for non-lecture style methods of learning.  OS project deconstruction answers that need for some learners.  I'm also a raving fan of mentor-style learning, and, having been the project lead on a web-based education platform before Blackboard was a household name, I have quite a few ideas about how the Internet can be used like no other channel to deliver mentoring.

Why haven't I been involved in OS to date?  Well, I've never been invited :-)

Seriously, though, I have the same kinds of time constraints that many of you probably have: full-time-and-a-half job, consulting gigs, family, house (I'm a diy'er), curriculum committee at my kids' school, self-study, learn new languages (human and computer), art, photography, starting a blog....  Unless the project is directly relevant to a need I have at the university, there will be very limited time I could devote to it.  I detest being the bottleneck - I like to be done before I'm asked for status. That said, we have a liberal OS policy (we're a university, after all), and we have a LOT of needs.

/ejt



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In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
  - George Orwell

[Greg Nilsen]

I'm Greg Nilsen, and I've been working with ColdFusion since 2004 when
I started my first development job at UPMC while finishing up my MS in
Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Since then, I've
been working heavily with ColdFusion and various database development
(MS SQL, mySQL, and most recently, heavy doses of Oracle PL/SQL). I
currently work with a branch of Northrop Grumman working with supply
chain management solutions (www.opentrac.com) for the steel industry
using both ColdFusion and Oracle PL/SQL and lead our largest product's
development, maintenance and support group.

While I have created several custom applications for my own use in my
spare time, I have not gotten involved in any CF open source
projects. While I would be interested in getting more involved, I
have limited spare time with two young boys at home.