Adobe Community Experts

Jared C. Rypka-Hauer

Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Biography

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.

He is founder and CEO of Continuum Media Group, LLC, based in Minneapolis, MN, and seeks to develop a strong web development market for CFers in Minneapolis. Additionally, he is organizing a technology conference focusing on object-oriented web development and enterprise integration in Minneapolis in March, 2006.

Jared enjoys skiing, autocross, mountain biking, horseback riding, and fishing. You'll often find him working on something mechanical when he's not working on someone's website or trying to make a ColdFusion-driven SMS-based garage door opener.

Nickname: J (yes, just… J)

Credits

Websites

• Blog: http://www.web-relevant.com/blogs/cfobjective
• Company: http://www.web-relevant.com
• cf.Objective Conference (coming soon)

Favorite open-source projects

• Tartan
• Model-Glue
• Mach-II
• CFEclipse

Discussion groups

• FusionAuthority
• House of Fusion
• CFCDev.org
• Mach-II on Topica
• Model-Glue on Topica
• Tartan on Topica