Fusebox

Michael Smith

Michael Smith is the President of TeraTech, a 20-year old Rockville, Maryland consulting company that specializes in web and database development and founded the successful CFUNITED conference. Michael also leads Fusebox and the motley group known as Team Fusebox.
"It's a rough job", said Michael, "but luckily for me I have Stan Cox's excellent leadership skills to guide me. Leads: Coordinates Team Fusebox, User Group Presenters, FLiP

Barney Boisvert

Barney Boisvert is currently Senior Development Engineer, for AudienceCentral, Inc. a small Bellingham, WA company that provides a suite integrated web-based communication management tools for PR professionals and crisis responders. His ties to the Fusebox community are primarily through his outspoken opinions on the mailing lists, though he has made code contributions to the core file development as well. You can read Barney's Blog at http://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/
He brags that he knows a lot more about Fusebox than Stan Cox ever could. Leads: Testing

Jason Daiger

Jason Daiger is the Director of IT and principal partner at Attendee Interactive (AI) in Marriottsville, MD.  Jason relationship with Fusebox dates back to 2001 when he inherited an Fusebox 3 application.  Since then he's been a regular voice on mailing lists and participated in the testing cycles of Fusebox 5.1 & 5.5. AI, using Fusebox as it's core, provides online conference management software to a multitude of clients such as the American Diabetes Association, American College of Surgeons, Consumer Electronics Association (producers of CES) and many others.

Brian Kotek

A prolific contributer to sites like builder.com and TechRepublic, Brian also contributed to "Discovering Fusebox 4". Brian maintains a blog at (http://www.briankotek.com/blog/index.cfm).
Leads: Proofreading, Articles, Website

Jared Rypka-Hauer

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 has taught Fusebox classes. 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. Jared also runs CF.objective, an object-oriented web development conference held in Minneapolis, MN. Jared Blogs at http://www.web-relevant.com/blogs/cfobjective/index.cfm. "I never heard of Stan Cox", he said when asked. "Does he do OO implementations?" Leads: Sample Applications

Jeff Peters

Jeff Peters is a program manager for NCI Information Systems in Reston, VA. Jeff has been involved in system development and integration since the early '80s, starting with the U.S. Air Force back when Ada was the next great language. (As our programmers used to say, "Ada--all the power of C; all the clarity of...C!") He is also the author of several books on ColdFusion and Fusebox (www.protonarts.com), and his articles have appeared in the ColdFusion Developers Journal, Pocket PC Magazine, and the CPCUG Monitor. The podcast "Helms and Peters Out Loud", his collaborative effort with Hal Helms, is available at www.helmsandpeters.com. Jeff once thought he spotted Stan Cox at a suburban Maryland shopping mall, but it turned out to be Danny Bonaduce on the Partridge Family Reunion Tour. Leads: Success Stories, Articles

Kevin Roche

Kevin has been one of the long time users of Fusebox. Jaunting from his home in the U.K. regularly across the pond to attend CFUNITED, MAX and Frameworks conferences. Kevin's many contributions to the community include updating the documentation for Fusebox 4, contributing to a Fusebox based blog software and working to implement scaffolding for Fusebox. He blogs about ColdFusion, Flex and Fusebox and general computer and security issues at http://www.objectiveaction.com/kevin. Leads: Sample Applications, CFEclipse Integration (with Mark Drew), Scaffolding

Mike Ritchie

Developer of Fusebuilder, a web based Project Management IDE, Mike is one of the unsung heros of the Fusebox world. He is the person responsible for the PHP ports of Fusebox 4 and 5. Leads: Core Files (PHP implementation)

Mike Tangorre

Leads: Success Stories, Sample Applications

Sandy Clark

Sandy is a Principal Software Developer with the Constella Group in Bethesda, Maryland. She has contributed material to the ColdFusion 5.0 Certified Developer Study Guide published by Syngress Media/Osborne McGraw Hill and to the ColdFusion Developers Journal. She has also spoken at various CFUGS and ColdFusion User Conferences around the country. Sandy is an active proponent of applying accepted and proven web standards to development as a way of improving accessibility as well as making life easier on developers. She also maintains a website and blog at http://www.shayna.com. Sandy has been an active Fusebox user since version 2.0 and participated in the Alpha cycle of Fusebox 4. She has contributed back to the Fusebox community in the form of tools such as editor toolsets for Fusebox 4 on Homesite and Dreamweaver as well as a security plugin.
"I was thrilled to meet Stan Cox at the Fusebox conference in Las Vegas", she admits. "It really was one of the high points of the trip." Leads: Website, Fusedocs Specification

Simeon Bateman

Simeon has a long and active history with ColdFusion and Frameworks projects. He is director of development for Business Transitions LLC of Portland, OR. Simeon is the project manager of CFeclipse, and maintains the TRAC and Subversion repositories for Fusebox, ColdSpring, Reactor and Model-Glue. He blogs at: http://www.simb.net/ Leads: User Group Presenters

Stan Cox (Team Fusebox Emeritus)

Stan Cox, legendary Fuseboxer, was born in Rio Linda, CA in 1977. "He was a bit of a 'slow starter'," his mother, Belinda Cox, remembers. "We bought him a computer because there was a screensaver program that fascinated him-he would watch that for hours: kind of a cheap babysitter. Sometimes, the computer was off, but Stanny would sit there and stare at the screen anyway." If Stan began as a "slow starter", he quickly outpaced all those he worked with. Stan pioneered the use of colored table cells and pushed the boundaries of different font colors-even within the same word. The result was sheer genius. "One looks at the work and says. Stan Cox!" exclaimed Thomas Evans, CEO for GeoCities. When Stan learned about Fusebox, he found a home. Stan challenged the status quo of Fusebox, prodding them, for example, to explore new ways to use the blink tag. "People know about me from Fusebox," said Steve Nelson, one of the founders of Fusebox. "What they don't know is to what degree my entire philosophy was shaped by Stan. It's impossible to underestimate his contribution to the Fusebox community." More recently, Stan has moved from sheer technical Fusebox virtuosity to concern over the Fusebox community itself. This has led to the much-respected "Meany List"-an updated listing of all those who have been less than supportive within the Fusebox community. "I guess I never really cared about Fuseboxers," said Hal Helms, an author and trainer on Fusebox. "I just looked at them as so many fuses. Or so many circuits. I could never quite keep those two things straight. Anyway, all that changed when I appeared on Stan's Meany List. It really caused me to reevaluate my perspective on things. Now, I'm still on Stan's list-but I feel bad about it." Stan's participation on Fusebox lists and forums varies, depending on the consistency of his meds, but one thing is sure: whenever Fuseboxers gather, they inevitably reflect on Stan Cox-the man, the myth, the mullet.