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.
The first installment of my new FusionAuthority monthly column is online. The column is called "Community Chronicles" and the goal is to write impactful and unique columns reflecting the state of the ColdFusion community from a different perspective than has been traditional in the ColdFusion community previously.
In the first installment, I include quotes from Bruce Chizen, CEO of Adobe, and Jonathan Wall, leader of the developer relations team. I had fun collecting my information and writing it, I hope you find it interesting and enjoyable to read!
Here's the link: Community Chronicles 0.1: Now They've Really Done It