Team Mach-II is glad to welcome our new member Mike Rogers to the team (see bio <http://www.mach-ii.com/index.cfm/go/contributors/#rogers>). Below is a short interview we did with him. We felt this would be a good way for the community to "virtually" meet him. We're really excited to work with Mike and feel he's a great asset to the Mach-II community. Without further ado, on with the interview:
*Tell us a little about who you are and what makes you tick..**.* The first question and it's the hardest. Who am I? I'm a marginally talented programmer from a small town in Indiana whose desire to write solid software has taken him through a dozen languages and countless frameworks only to settle on Mach-II. I'm driven by (as the great Larry Wall <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall> once said) a combination of Laziness, Hubris, and Impatience. *What was the first thing you ever did with a computer that made you proud of your accomplishment?* When I was very young, maybe 8 years old, I wrote a baseball game in Q-BASIC. I remember showing my dad and getting him to say 'wow'. That was pretty fantastic. That was back in DOS 4.0, when real men used edlin.exe to modify config files. *What got you started using Mach-II?* I had just been hired into a ColdFusion environment coming out of a Java shop whose process I had built from the ground up to include Spring, Hibernate, Axis2, some unit testing and CruiseControl -- not too rigorous, but there was some structure. The shop I had hired into was using straight ColdFusion with no process, no framework, nothing. I needed more structure, so I started looking at frameworks. Mach-II was the cleanest, most efficient framework I could find. For the first time since Java I felt like my code was making sense, and that was a good feeling. *Mach-II has matured a lot since its inception. What are your favorite Mach-II features as of today?* I really like its integration with ColdSpring; the logging framework is also pretty spiffy. I hope to play more with that as time passes. The form taglib is also quite sweet; it's saved me a bunch of time with a few projects at work. *Everybody brings unique ideas and skills to the table. What one thing you feel you bring to Team Mach-II?* It's a bit too early to tell; my official contributions have been minimal. Unofficially my fondness for bourbon brings a certain drunken confidence that I feel the team was lacking prior to my arrival, though the merits thereof are open to debate. My hope is that if I revisit this question even within the next few months I'll have a better understanding of how I fit in. Alternatively, I bring the beard. *It's an impossibility to spend 100% in front of a keyboard. What do you do for fun?* I work on my little farm, cook, and spend time with my wife. On our farm we have a horse, two goats, a pig, seven cats, three dogs and a flock of chickens. One of my favorite dishes to cook is french onion soup; it makes the house smell amazing. *If you were not a programmer, what would you want to do with your life?* A scenario too horrible to contemplate! Although I think I'd be a pretty passable Calculus teacher, or some other job with a high nerd factor. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to Mach-II for CFML list. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mach-ii-for-coldfusion?hl=en SVN: http://greatbiztoolsllc.svn.cvsdude.com/mach-ii/ Wiki / Documentation / Tickets: http://greatbiztoolsllc.trac.cvsdude.com/mach-ii/
