Phone: (1) 678 358-3046
Address: 405 Red Jacket Way, Alpharetta GA 30005
About Charlie Arehart
A veteran ColdFusion developer and troubleshooter since 1997, Charlie Arehart is a longtime contributor to the community and a recognized Adobe Community Expert. He's a certified Advanced CF Developer and Instructor for CF 4-8 who:- has written over 70 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
- has blogs at carehart.org/blogand tipicalcharlie.com (a non-CF tip site he created in April 2005)
- was a contributor to all three volumes of the CF8 Web Application Construction Kit books by Ben Forta et al
- the Online ColdFusion Meetup,coldfusionmeetup.com, the world's largest CF user group
- the UGTV repository of recorded user group presentations from all over the world
- the CF411 site with several hundred resources and tools of interest to CFers
- http://www.tipicalcharlie.com (a non-CF tip site he created in April 2005)
To assist those considering his services, the following are available online: references, resume/CV, consulting rates.
Among his other accomplishments are:
- Member, Adobe Community Experts 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, from his "CF411: Tools to Consider as a CF developer", to guides to getting started with the Apache Derby DB embedded in CF, multiple instances in CF, and much much more
- Co-author, ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, all 3 volumes
- Co-author, ColdFusion MX Bible (2002)
- http://www.tipicalcharlie.com (a non-CF tip site he created in April 2005)
- His older CFMXPlus blog , from 2002-2003
- His BlueDragon blog, from 2003-2006
- 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)
- The community site for a mainframe DBMS (Model 204), called the Ultimate 204 Site, which he ran for several years starting in 1996 (though the content no longer lives where it did, it's available courtesy of the fantastic web archive)
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.
For additional information about Charlie's 25+ years in IT, see his resume.
Specialties: ColdFusion/BlueDragon; 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; SQL Server 2005 Report Builder
BTW, the site name is carehart.org, not careheart.org. It's easy to mispel, so I've set up a to catch those who may search using the misspelling, to redirect them to the right place.
