Jared Rypka-Hauer wrote his first from-scratch application in Commodore Basic at the age of 9. In his teens, he dabbled in everything from dBase to HyperCard and was instrumental in the development of several commercial software products. In 1990, he began his professional IT career, spending the first 8 years primarily in end-user support and Infrastructure. Since 1998, his interests have revolved around ColdFusion and dynamic web applications. Finally making the jump to using OO methods for web development in January of 2005, he's become a presence in the web-development blogging community and has written for outlets such as FusionAuthority and ColdFusion Developer's Journal. Jared is also the primary organizer of the CF.Objective conference.