About
My name is Adam Tuttle, and I'm a Web Developer for The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. I live in the Greater Philadelphia area, and I took over as manager of Philly CFUG at the end of 2009.
I have a personal blog but to be honest, most of my family and friends (the core audience of that blog) aren't nerdy enough to appreciate the types of things I write about here. They usually smile and nod out of courtesy when I geek out in person, but I don't think that even they have the desire to placate me online. To them, ColdFusion is an unattainable energy source, and AJAX is a cleaning product.
Aside from Photography and my non-tech blog, I enjoy snowboarding, video games (mostly XBox 360), traveling, golf (because everyone has to enjoy something they suck at, right?), and camping, canoeing, and fishing. My wife and I had our first child on Thanksgiving day of 2008, and we have a dog ("Moxie") and a cat ("Oliver" aka "Ollie").
I got my first computer when I was nine years old, circa 1990. When Windows 3.11 was released in 1992, my dad got me a 486-66 and set it up to play a clip of the Pink Floyd song Welcome to the Machine so that it sang "Welcome my son. Welcome… to… the machine" at boot-up. I was doomed. From that point on, computers became the most important material thing in my life, and I've never looked back.
I've had various computer-related jobs, running the gamut from server sales, colocation and management, ISP Sales & Support, LAN and WAN tech support, and eventually landing at developing using ColdFusion 4.5; right around the same time I was taking my first programming courses in High School.
Of course, by that point I had been teaching myself from books and internet tutorials for years (mostly Visual Basic) – so I really hit the ground running and was that guy that got straight A's in all of his computer science classes and helped all of his friends debug their code.
During my senior year of college I did a one year internship at Perdue Farms, and then worked there for a year full time after graduation, programming in a mainframe environment. After the "big company" experience I decided that I would be much happier working for a smaller, more progressive company that was willing to ride a little closer to the bleeding edge of technology; and I found myself at E-Tech Solutions, based in West Chester, PA, where I worked for a year and a half before we were acquired by Perficient, where I worked for another year and a half before accepting my current position at Wharton.
I love ColdFusion so much that I can often be found coding in my free time. I have several open source projects of my own, and I enjoy contributing to other open source projects as well, like Mango Blog (which my blogs use).