ArgumentCollection is the official blog and sounding board for the engineering leads at Broadchoice, Inc. While each us has our own blog or personal Web site, we've formed ArgumentCollection to share the technical thoughts, experiences, and debates that are a result of building the various Broadchoice products.
On the ArgumentCollection, we'll be writing about all aspects of software development from process to production pushes. The one central theme we'll follow is that all of our content chronicles real-world experience of real-world software built by some of the best minds in the ColdFusion / Flex / Java arena.
Sean Corfield
Chief Systems Architect, VP of Engineering
Sean Corfield, formerly of Adobe Systems, managed the Hosted Services Core Group supporting Adobe Acrobat Connect and other Adobe on-demand services. Sean also held the role of Senior Architect for the IT division of Macromedia, Inc. for six years. Prior to joining Macromedia, Corfield drove the architecture of a number of high-traffic, high-profile websites for a diverse group of companies after working on the ANSI J16 C++ Standards Committee for eight years and building compilers, interpreters and runtime systems. He is currently manager of the Bay Area ColdFusion User Group and a frequent speaker at ColdFusion conferences around the world. Check out Sean's blog, An Architect's View, at http://corfield.org.
Raymond Camden
Vice President of Software Development, Jedi Master
Raymond Camden is a long-time ColdFusion user. He has written many books on the subject and presents on ColdFusion topics often. His blog software, BlogCFC, is in use by numerous writers across the world and is completely free and open source. Raymond also shares many other applications covering forums, wikis, and other needs. To learn more about Ray and his projects, click on over to his blog: coldfusionjedi.
Nicolas Lierman
Innovation Architect
Nicolas' most renowned distinction is having been the key developer of the Google Analytics Reporting suite, an Adobe AIR application that brings Google Analytics to the desktop. He is using this expertise to further the work in this field, leading the development of user behavioral analytics for the Broadchoice Web Platform. Prior to joining the Broadchoice Team, he was the senior application developer and chief architect of the Flex team at a Belgium multimedia company, where he led the development of non service based product development and managed corporate client projects. An internationally known expert in Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), Adobe Flash, Coldfusion and Flex, Nicolas has been the lead developer at a top interactive communication agency as a Flash platform developer and was a Flash video consultant for the movie industry in LA. He has presented his work at conferences in many countries and speaks four languages. See his popular blog, followed by developers around the world at www.aboutnico.be.
Brian Kotek
Systems Architect
Brian Kotek has been building web applications with ColdFusion for over 11 years for a range of enterprise customers and government agencies. He is a frequent blogger, writes for publications such as CNET and Fusion Authority Quarterly Update, and is a regular speaker at conferences such as CF.Objective() and CFUnited. Brian is a member of Team Fusebox, the ColdSpring development team, and has assisted with a number of popular projects including Model-Glue, ColdBox, and Transfer. He also has released a number of open-source projects including the ColdMock mock object factory, ColdSpring Bean Utilities, UML to CFC Generator, and FormUtilities. Brian also moderates the ColdFusion forums at Devshed, and helps answer questions on a number of high-traffic mailing lists. While his expertise lies in ColdFusion, advanced SQL, and object-oriented programming, he has experience with Flex and Java as well. For discussions on these topics and more, you can find his blog at www.briankotek.com/blog.
Joe Rinehart
Systems Architect
Joe Rinehart has been designing and developing applications based on Adobe products for over ten years. By participating in the Adobe community, blogging, developing open-source development tools like Model-Glue, Joe has built a reputation as a leader in the Adobe development community. Published in magazines such as Dr. Dobbs' Journal and The Fusion Authority Quarterly Update, he's also a regular speaker at technical conferences such as Adobe MAX. Find out more by reading Joe's blog, Firemoss, at www.firemoss.com.
