I am a web developer, born in PERU and now living in PDX. My platform of choice is CFML but I'm always open to learn anything. I currently work for Mentor Graphics.

I also do freelance web development and have a few open source projects that I maintain.

Where To Find Me:

Overcoming CFC Serialization Issues Using Java

*** THIS IS A REPOST OF AN EARLIER ARTICLE THAT GOT WIPED OUT ON A RECENT DB CRASH. *** At work we always build our applications targeting clustered environments, that means that even if an app will be deployed to a single server at the beginning, it can always be (more)

Posted on July 28, 2008      2 Comments

A Rant on Frameworks, Libraries, and Shells

We spend ridiculous amount of time discussing the merits (or lack of) of the different MVC frameworks in ColdFusion, and we keep doing it again and again. Well, at least everyone should agree that when it comes time to decide how to go from one page to another we got (more)

Posted on May 30, 2008      18 Comments

Using Polymorphism and Inheritance to Build a Switchable Data Access Layer

One thing I don't like when starting on a new application is having to go through the process of setting up and configuring the database before I can get anything even running at all. So, for a couple of projects I'm working on I thought about reading and writing data (more)

Posted on November 28, 2007      2 Comments