| Brian Meloche |
| brianmeloche at gmail dot com |
Brian Meloche is Senior Technical Analyst at Dealer Tire, LLC in Cleveland, Ohio. He has 18 years IT experience, twelve years web design and development experience, including over ten years as a ColdFusion developer. He started his career as a programmer/analyst, but got sidetracked from that in the early 90's, working in the financial industry. After a partially successful stint writing science fiction (he sold a story premise to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), he went back to school, and learned design and interactive media. He started his web career as a designer, but slowly transitioned to web development. After using Perl and ASP, and a little PHP, he finally settled on ColdFusion, where he's been since 1998 (version 3). Brian is a Certified ColdFusion MX 7 Developer. In addition to ColdFusion, he knows Dreamweaver very well, and also knows some Flash, but doesn't use it regularly.
Brian is the manager and co-founder of the Cleveland ColdFusion Users Group. He is the founder, former manager and co-manager and now advisor to the Cleveland Adobe Users Group. He is also the former manager and founder of the West Virginia Macromedia Users Group.
In addition to his duties as the Cleveland CFUG manager, Brian is an Adobe Community Expert in ColdFusion, and the producer and host of the popular CFConversations ColdFusion podcast.
Brian blogs at www.brianmeloche.com.
A native of Windsor, Ontario, Brian lives in Cleveland, OH, with his wife, Julie, their three dogs: Buster (a Boxer/Pitbull mix), McKenzie (Sheltie), and Stella (a deaf American Eskimo mix; six cats: Madonna (a Calico), Misty (a Siamese/Tabby mix), Simba (a white domestic long hair), Smokey (a grey domestic short hair), Xena (a Calico mix) and Loverboy (a long haired black and white); and the occasional rescue dog or cat (right now, a Calico we call Jasmine).
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Presentations Given:
- 03/30/2005 (ColdFusion MX 7 - What's New?)
- 04/13/2005 (ColdFusion Components)
- 08/10/2005 (Associative Arrays)
- 09/14/2005 (Middleware and mainframe connectivity in ColdFusio)
- 02/08/2006 (Introduction to ColdFusion Frameworks)
- 11/14/2006 (ColdFusion 101)
- 07/12/2007 (Open Source ColdFusion)
- 01/22/2009 (Improve Client Side Performance in ColdFusion Apps)
- 05/11/2009 (cf.Objective() Session Previews)
- 07/16/2009 (Improving Client Side Performance in ColdFusion Ap)
- 08/27/2009 (Set up a ColdFusion dev environment the easy way!)
- 09/30/2009 (Intro to ColdFusion Frameworks, including LightFro)
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| To Be Announced |
| n/a |
The speaker is to be announced.
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Presentations Given:
- 07/13/2005 (To Be Announced)
- 10/12/2005 (CF Show N' Tell)
- 03/08/2006 (To Be Announced)
- 02/28/2007 (To Be Announced)
- 09/13/2007 (ColdFusion 8)
- 11/08/2007 (To Be Announced)
- 06/12/2008 (To Be Announced)
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| Justin Kozuch |
| Justin@DreaminginTO [justin@dreaminginto.com |
Inspired by the Studio MX 2004 Product Launch, Justin started a Macromedia User Group in Toronto, Canada; named DreaminginTO and began writing for CommunityMX. Justin has a passion for clean design, using XHTML and CSS. PHP and MySQL have become words that have embedded themselves into his vocabulary and he has become passionate about incorporating open source into a workflow that includes FreeHand, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and Flash. The road from being a "newbie", posting to newsgroups and speaking at conferences turned into a passion for giving back to the community that has been instrumental to his success.
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Presentations Given:
- 05/11/2005 (CFMAIL)
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| Rick Bierregard |
| mathmjr@aol.com |
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Presentations Given:
- 06/08/2005 (Creating a ColdFusion Development Environment)
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| Robert Cepek |
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| Robert Cepek |
| rcepek@sbcglobal.net |
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| Charlie Arehart |
| charlie@newatlanta.com |
Charlie is the CTO of New Atlanta Communications, makers of the CFML Application Server Blue Dragon and J2EE Server ServletExec. Charlie has been a tireless advocate within the ColdFusion community. He has written countless articles for the ColdFusion Developer's Journal, and is a frequent speaker at many user groups and conferences. Charlie is also the former user group manager of the Southern MD CFUG.
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Presentations Given:
- 11/09/2005 (SeeFusion and BlueDragon)
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| Everyone in Attendance! |
| everyone@there.com |
This means it's a group event, whether it's a roundtable, tips and tricks or social meeting.
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Presentations Given:
- 12/14/2005 (Social)
- 10/11/2006 (Informal Meet and Greet)
- 12/13/2006 (Holiday Social)
- 12/20/2007 (Annual Holiday Social)
- 12/18/2008 (Holiday Party!)
- 10/21/2009 (CF9 & Other Assorted Tidbits)
- 12/12/2009 (Holiday Social/Toys For Shots)
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| Mick Keily |
| mick_keily@yahoo.com |
Mick Keily is the manager of the Cleveland ColdFusion Users Group.
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Presentations Given:
- 01/11/2006 (Introduction to Frameworks)
- 06/14/2006 (Getting Started with Flex)
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| Zach Stepek |
| zach@cravemg.com |
Zach is the owner and founder of Crave Media Group in Rockford, Illinois, and runs the Stateline Macromedia Users Group in Rockford. He has 5 years experience with ColdFusion, 3 years experience with Flash, and 2 years with Flex. He enjoys speaking to groups like ours, saying that the free exchange of ideas allows us to better understand the challenges and opportunities facing each of us.
Zach will be making a 3-day presentation in Los Angeles in early May (see http://www.almerblank.com/events/flex/) and we are very lucky to have arranged this presentation for our users group. If there is enough interest in the Cleveland area, Zach says he would be willing to put together a similar presentation and come to northeastern Ohio.
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Presentations Given:
- 04/12/2006 (Adobe Flex 2.0 Overview)
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| Kevin Hoyt |
| khoyt@adobe.com |
Kevin Hoyt is a Platform Evangelist with Adobe. Passionate about
engaging user experiences, you'll most often find him meeting with
customers, speaking at conferences, presenting online seminars, or just enjoying the chance to share ideas and brainstorm with other developers. When not on the road, Kevin enjoys spending time with his family, photography and general aviation.
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Presentations Given:
- 07/26/2006 (Flex 2.0 - Nuts to Bolts)
- 02/05/2008 (Flex 3 and AIR)
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| Peter J. Farrell |
| pjf@maestropublishing.com |
Hailing from the frigid tundra of Minnesota, Peter J. Farrell is well known in ColdFusion circles. Peter is the co-host of the ColdFusion Weekly podcast, along with fellow Mach-II contributor, Matt Woodward. Peter has a Bachelor of Music degree from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. While studying music, Peter took his life-long interest with computers to a new level and started learning about web development technologies. He has been working with ColdFusion for since 2001 and was the lead developer for the 1.1.0 release of the Mach-II framework.
Peter owns Maestro Publishing, a small development firm specializing in web solutions for non-profits and small businesses. He currently is the lead developer for GreatBizTools, a human resources consulting firm. He and his girlfriend, Allyson, live together in Minnesota.
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Presentations Given:
- 08/09/2006 (Design Pattern Safari)
- 09/13/2006 (Head First Mach-II)
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| Andrew Powell |
| andrew.powell@universalmind.com |
Andy is a Senior Consultant with Universal Mind. He has been developing web applications for over 10 years, using ASP, ASP.NET, and ColdFusion. You can read his blog at http://www.infoaccelerator.net.
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Presentations Given:
- 01/10/2007 (Integrating Spry and ColdFusion)
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| Adobe Adobe |
| adobe@adobe.com |
Various speakers from Adobe.
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Presentations Given:
- 03/27/2007 (The OFFICIAL launch of Adobe Creative Suite 3!!!)
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| Ben Forta |
| ben@forta.com |
Ben Forta is Adobe Inc.'s Senior Technical Evangelist, and has over two decades of experience in the computer industry in product development, support, training, and marketing. Ben is the author of the best-selling ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit and its sequel Advanced ColdFusion Application Development, as well as books on SQL, Regular Expressions, JavaServer Pages, WAP, Windows development, and more. Over 1/2 million Ben Forta books have been printed in a dozen languages worldwide. Ben co-authored the official ColdFusion training material, as well as the certification tests and official study guides for those tests, writes regular columns on ColdFusion and Internet development, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking on application development worldwide.
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Presentations Given:
- 05/10/2007 (Scorpio: Introducing ColdFusion 8!!!)
- 01/10/2008 (Lesser Known ColdFusion 8 Goodies)
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| Steve Bryant |
| steve@bryantwebconsulting.com |
Steve Bryant has been programming with ColdFusion since 1999. He currently runs the Tulsa CFUG and teaches ColdFusion classes from time to time. He has written articles for CFDJ and is the author of the DataMgr component set.
Steve Bryant is the owner of Bryant Web Consulting LLC (www.bryantwebconsulting.com) and teaches ColdFusion at Breakaway Interactive (www.breakawayinteractive.com). He got his BA in Philosophy at Oklahoma State University and still has no idea how that led to a career in Web development.
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Presentations Given:
- 04/11/2007 (DataMgr Component Set)
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| Adam Wayne Lehman |
| adlehman@adobe.com |
Adam Wayne Lehman is the Product Manager for both ColdFusion and Bolt (the codename for Adobe's new ColdFusion IDE) at Adobe Systems. He was promoted to that position earlier this year, from his previous position as the Adobe Platform Evangelist for ColdFusion. Before that, Adam was the ColdFusion Specialist on Adobe's North America Technical Sales team.
Adam has been developing web applications specializing in ColdFusion for over a decade. Before joining Adobe, his background includes designing and programming e-learning applications for Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and was most recently the Senior Web Systems Engineer for the U.S. Department of State where he managed a team of developers and architected enterprise ColdFusion applications. Adam also founded and managed the Department of State Adobe Developer User Group for over two years. His work has been featured in Macromedia's DRK (Developer Resource Kit) and his other areas of expertise include application security and Oracle database development.
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Presentations Given:
- 06/07/2007 (ColdFusion 8 - A deeper dive...)
- 06/17/2009 (A very special ColdFusion and Flex event!)
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| Mark Drew |
| mark.drew@gmail.com |
Mark has been programming Coldfusion since 1996, and even though he has had forays into Perl, ASP and PHP he is still loving every line of code he has crafted with ColdFusion, so much so that he decided to be part of the CFEclipse team and build an even better editor to write CF with. As a day job he is Product Manager at Design UK, a London based agency providing ecommerce, content managament, CRM and creative marketing solutions to some of the rather more well known high street stores. Apart from this Mark still has time to develop CFEclipse and
blog about coldfusion and related subjects over at
http://www.markdrew.co.uk/blog/. Mark is also co-manager of the UKCFUG
http://www.ukcfug.org and has spoken on a number of subjects including ORMs, Frameworks and CFEclipse.
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Presentations Given:
- 08/09/2007 (Intro to CFEclipse)
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| Mark Mandel |
| mark.mandel@gmail.com |
Mark Mandel is a ColdFusion and Java developer from Australia, known best for the Transfer ORM framework and JavaLoader. A more complete bio is coming soon.
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Presentations Given:
- 10/11/2007 (Transfer ORM, MAX Report)
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| Kevin Lynch |
| klynch@adobe.com |
Kevin is Chief Software Architect at Adobe Systems.
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Presentations Given:
- 02/25/2008 (RIA Special Event!)
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| Todd Sharp |
| todd@cfsilence.com |
Todd Sharp has been working with ColdFusion since mid 2004. He blogs regularly about ColdFusion and Ajax and has several open source projects at his site http://cfsilence.com. Todd provides ColdFusion/Ajax development and consulting services through his company Sharp Interactive, LLC. You can contact him through his site or via email at todd@cfsilence.com.
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Presentations Given:
- 03/12/2009 (SlideSix)
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| Raymond Camden |
| ray@camdenfamily.com |
Raymond Camden is the owner of Camden Media, Inc, a web development and training company. A long time ColdFusion user, Raymond has worked on numerous ColdFusion books and served as a technical editor and contributor for the ColdFusion Developers' Journal. He also presents at numerous conferences and contributes to online webzines. He founded many community web sites including CFLib.org, ColdFusionPortal.org, ColdFusionCookbook.org, RIA Forge, ColdFusionBloggers.org and is the author of numerous open source applications, including the popular BlogCFC blogging application. Raymond can be reached at his blog (www.coldfusionjedi.com) or via email at ray at camdenfamily dot com.
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| Raymond Camden, Todd Sharp and Brian Meloche |
| withheld |
Raymond Camden is the owner of Camden Media, Inc, a web development and training company. A long time ColdFusion user, Raymond has worked on numerous ColdFusion books and served as a technical editor and contributor for the ColdFusion Developers' Journal. He also presents at numerous conferences and contributes to online webzines. He founded many community web sites including CFLib.org, ColdFusionPortal.org, ColdFusionCookbook.org, RIA Forge, ColdFusionBloggers.org and is the author of numerous open source applications, including the popular BlogCFC blogging application. Raymond can be reached at his blog (www.coldfusionjedi.com) or via email at ray at camdenfamily dot com.
Todd Sharp has been working with ColdFusion since mid 2004. He blogs regularly about ColdFusion and Ajax and has several open source projects at his site http://cfsilence.com. Todd provides ColdFusion/Ajax development and consulting services through his company Sharp Interactive, LLC. You can contact him through his site or via email at todd@cfsilence.com.
Brian Meloche is the senior web developer at a successful Cleveland, Ohio wholesaler. He has seventeen years IT experience, twelve years web design and development experience, including most of the last nine and a half years as a ColdFusion developer. He started his career as a programmer/analyst, but got sidetracked from that in the early 90's, working in the financial industry. After a partially successful stint writing science fiction (he sold a story premise to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), he went back to school, and learned design and interactive media. He started his web career as a designer, but slowly transitioned to web development. After using Perl and ASP, and a little PHP, he finally settled on ColdFusion, where he's been since 1998 (version 3). Brian is a Certified ColdFusion MX 7 Developer. In addition to ColdFusion, he knows Dreamweaver very well, and also knows some Flash, but doesn't use it regularly.
Brian is the manager and co-founder of the of the Cleveland ColdFusion User Group, co-manager and founder of the Cleveland Adobe Users Group. He is also the former manager and founder of the West Virginia Macromedia Users Group, now called KVWILD.
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Presentations Given:
- 04/24/2008 (cf.Objective() Conference Preview)
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| Dan Vega |
| danvega@gmail.com |
Dan Vega is Web Developer for the eBusiness department of STERIS Corporation, and has been developing web applications with ColdFusion for 6 years. Dan has a passion for inspiring and educating others. He regularly blogs at http://www.danvega.org/blog/ about his daily findings and enjoys speaking to those willing to listen. He has a few open source projects, including the CFExt project, his validation framework HyRule, and several ColdFusion Builder extensions that can be found on RIAForge. He is an Adobe Community Professional, and also the co-manager of the Cleveland ColdFusion User Group. As co-manager, he regularly provides content to the group, answers members' questions and presents on a wide variety of topics at monthly Cleveland CFUG meetings, and has also presented to other user groups.
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Presentations Given:
- 11/13/2008 (ColdFusion Components - Intro to CFCs)
- 02/12/2009 (AJAX Made Easy)
- 08/17/2010 (Intro to Flex 4 & Flash Builder 4)
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| John Farrar |
| johnfarrar@sosensible.com |
John is the author of ColdFusion 8 Developer Tutorial by Packt Publishing and manager of the Great Lakes Web Developers User Group. John's experience includes application development, database design, and project managment in a wide variety of business applications. These applications have served small business to project management on a vendor application for a fortune 500 company. Along the way it became a passion to bring the appropriate technologies out of the enterprise to mid and small business environments. This led to the creation of a number of Open Source solutions. These solutions are free so the community can give back to the project and we will all have better development and business solutions through a broader developer participation base. COOP is his crowning achievement and COOP ICE is where people get an idea of just how cool these technologies are.
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Presentations Given:
- 07/24/2008 (jQuery with ColdFusion)
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| Adam Pratt |
| apratt@adobe.com |
Adam Pratt joined Adobe in 2000 and is currently a Senior Solutions Engineer working with all of the Creative Suite Products, including InDesign, InCopy, and Photoshop. He consults with Adobe's publishing and advertising customers regarding their creative workflows and has co-authored several books about using Adobes professional design software. Adam is also responsible for training Adobe's global network of trainers and consultants and is a frequent contributor to Adobe's ACE certification program.
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Presentations Given:
- 09/25/2008 (It's going to be brilliant!)
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| Joey Lott |
| joey@person13.com |
Joey Lott is a founding partner of The Morphic Group, a Flex and Flash consulting company. At The Morphic Group Joey serves as a technology director, building some of today's most innovative Flex applications and advocating for the use and adoption of agile software development methodologies. He has written many books on Flex and Flash-related technologies, including Programming Flex 3, ActionScript 3 Cookbook, Adobe AIR in Action, and Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns.
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Presentations Given:
- 10/09/2008 (How To Architect Flex Applications)
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| No Speaker |
| none@none.com |
There is no speaker this month.
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Presentations Given:
- 04/23/2009 (Meeting is canceled, due to a scheduling issue.)
- 02/23/2010 (To Be Announced)
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| Gabriel Hyter |
| ghyter@gmail.com |
Gabe is an incredibly talented ColdFusion Developer and he is a master tool builder and code generator. He currently works as a Senior Web Developer at a Cleveland wholesaler, and has been using ColdFusion for the last seven years.
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Presentations Given:
- 11/18/2009 (Using Regular Expressions)
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| Various Speakers |
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Various presenters will be presenting this material this month.
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Presentations Given:
- 04/06/2010 (ColdFusion Builder and Flash Builder)
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| April Clark |
| aclark@nuanceconsult.com |
April Clark, owner of Nuance Consulting LLC, is a consultant and trainer for web and print publishing professionals. April is an Adobe Certified Instructor, an Adobe Community Professional and co-chapter representative of the Cleveland InDesign User Group. April began her career in prepress and advertising. She has taught graphic software classes for Cleveland State Universitys Continuing Education program, The Cleveland Institute of Art Continuing Education program and at Cuyahoga Community College. April has been working with the CS5 beta software for over six months and has already demoed Creative Suite 5 in Cincinnati and Las Vegas this month.
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Presentations Given:
- 05/25/2010 (Adobe Creative Suite 5)
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| Chris Peters |
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Chris Peters is the biggest fan of the ColdFusion on Wheels framework. He invests his time improving the framework core, writing documentation, and speaking about Wheels at user groups and events. Chris is a web developer at Liquifusion Studios, a ColdFusion development agency and developers of Reservoir CMS. He has been developing in CFML since the ColdFusion MX days for a variety of different organizations.
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Presentations Given:
- 06/08/2010 (ColdFusion on Wheels)
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