Phone: (1) 678 358-3046
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A veteran ColdFusion developer and troubleshooter since 1997, Charlie Arehart is a longtime contributor to the community and a recognized Adobe Community Professional. He's a certified Advanced CF Developer and Instructor for each version since CF 4 who:- has written over 80 articles for the Adobe DevCenter, FusionAuthority Quarterly Update, CommunityMX, and ColdFusion Developers Journal
- has given more than 90 presentations to hundreds of user groups and 25 different CF conferences
- blogs at carehart.org/blog
- is a contributor to all three volumes of the CF8 and CF9 Web Application Construction Kit books by Ben Forta et al, and to the Adobe ColdFusion Anthology book, and several other books
- the Online ColdFusion Meetup, coldfusionmeetup.com, the world's largest CF user group with 2,400 members
- the UGTV repository of recorded user group presentations from all over the world
- the CF411 site with over 1,700 resources and tools of interest to CFers
To assist those considering his services, the following are available online: references, resume/CV, consulting rates.
Among his other accomplishments are:
- Member, Adobe Community Professionals program
- Member, Adobe ColdFusion Customer Advisory Board
- Member, Adobe User Group Managers program
- Member, CFUnited Advisory Board
- Adobe Certfied Instructor
- Organizer of several other resources to help CFML developers in a variety of ways, including guides to getting started with the Apache Derby DB embedded in CF, multiple instances in CF, and much much more
- Co-author, all 3 volumes of ColdFusion 8 and ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit books; Contributor to Adobe ColdFusion Anthology, and others:
- Contributor to several podcasts, including being a regular panelist on The RIA Podcast (hosted by John Mason), a panelist or interviewee on The CFConversations Podcast, and the focus for several episodes on The Mura Show (where the episodes were about converting this site to be able to run under Mura.)
- Tipicalcharlie (a non-CF tip site he created in April 2005, with the demise of blog-city.com, but available via that link at the archive.org site)
- His older CFMXPlus blog , from 2002-2003
- His BlueDragon blog, from 2003-2006 (now defunct, with the demise of blog-city.com, but available via that link at the archive.org site)
- His original tips list from 1998-2002, from before the days of blogging, at his former SysteManage site
- Other resources he's contributed to the CFDJ (including a series of CF Advisor tips from 1999-2000) are available via CFDJ contributions (Articles and tips posted at CFDJ)
As additional background about his previous 15 years in enterprise IT (1982-1997) before getting into web apps, he worked with very large scale database systems, first in development then administration, doing the same sort of writing, speaking, mentoring that he now does in web app development. He worked on some of the largest databases in the world at the US Health Care Financing Administration (now CMMS, then with 60 billion records) and the Australian Department of Social Security (now Centrelink).
It's amazing how much of that prior experience (building interactive applications and managing them and the database in a mainframe environment called Model 204) translated to the web and CF.
Indeed, from his days working with 204 back then, he ran still another resource (now long-gone, but accessible courtesy of the fantastic web archive):
- The Ultimate 204 Site, which he ran for several years. (To those who find this and are looking for 204 help, Charlie has not worked with it since 1996 and can offer no useful assistance.)
Specialties: ColdFusion; Troubleshooting; Tuning; Training; Administration; Tools (Monitoring, Debugging, and more); Ajax (Spry, etc.); J2EE (JRun, WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss); .NET; SQL Server 6.5/7/2k/2k5/2k8; SQL Server 2005 Report Builder
BTW, the site name is carehart.org, not careheart.org. It's easy to mispell, so I've set up a honeypot to catch those who may search using that misspelling, to redirect them to the right place.
