I have been working in IT for over twenty five years. I started out writing database systems and compilers then moved into mobile telecoms and then finally into web development around 1997. Along the way, I worked on the ISO and ANSI C++ Standards committees for eight years. I am a staunch advocate of software standards and best practice. I wrote C++ coding guidelines for several companies during the 90's and while I was at Macromedia, I wrote the Macromedia ColdFusion MX Coding Guidelines and Mach II Development Guide, which are published on LiveDocs for the ColdFusion community. I have contributed to a number of ColdFusion frameworks and I'm a regular speaker at conferences, on frameworks, design patterns and enterprise-grade software development.