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Isaac Dealey

Skills

Macromedia products

  • ColdFusion MX
  • Flash MX

Technologies

HTML, JavaScript, OO, ASP, XML, CSS, C/C++, Java

Macromedia certifications

Advanced ColdFusion MX Developer

Operating systems

MS-DOS, Windows 3.X, 9X, NT, 2000

Language

English

Isaac Dealey

Dallas, Texas

Biography

Isaac inherited an interest in programming from his father who worked on various iterations of DOS, among other things. He started with ColdFusion 3.0 at MCI/WorldCom in the midst of their merger. When they finalized the merger his job vanished but he enjoyed working with ColdFusion so much that he couldn't put it down. Since then he's worked with ASP, tinkered with Perl and XML, and appropriated some DHTML DOM and Macromedia Flash MX skills, although ColdFusion remains his first love. Isaac's strengths lie in application architecture, modular/reusable coding practices, object orientation, and "content management"—whatever that is.

Isaac was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. There's a statue there of his great-great grandfather, George Bannerman Dealey, former editor and one-time owner of the Dallas Morning News, on "the grassy knoll" where President Kennedy was shot. His other interests include philosophy, history, anthropology, polyamory, intentional communities, theology, new age metaphysics, music, art and to some extent politics. He used to be an avid sci-fi fan, collect comic books, and play pencil and paper role-playing games. He's also a big fan of Cat Stevens, Jethro Tull, and a lot of one-hit wonders from the '80s.

Credits

Websites

  • Ike
    My personal site. Opinions expressed are entirely my own and often not politically correct. Read at your own risk.
  • New Epoch
    My corporate site.
  • ike onTap
    My technical blog for the onTap framework.
  • onTap Forums
    Community forums for the onTap framework open-source project.

Articles

Extensions


onTap Framework
A powerful framework for developing ColdFusion applications, featuring many enhancements to the CFML language for database access, display, application branding and asset management. Free for commercial use under the terms of the Lesser-GPL Open Source license.

Talk onTap Chat Room
A simple Macromedia Flash MX chat room for use with ColdFusion Server versions 4.0 through MX. Plans exist for a new version with additional features, skins, and more control over the source code (ActionScript).

Tapestry CMS
A full-featured, enterprise content management system (CMS) for ColdFusion 5.0 or MX and Microsoft SQL Server 7/2000. Soon to include native support for multiple languages and Oracle databases.

Simple Programming Environment Catalog (SPEC)
A simple XML dialect designed for documenting and cataloguing software development projects not only in ColdFusion but for any platform and/or programming language. Drives the documentation of individual functions in the onTap Framework and also protected by the Lesser-GPL Open Source license.

Discussion groups

Macromedia Forums

Mailing lists and other forums