About

My name is Adam Tuttle, and I'm a Web Developer for The Wharton School's Learning Lab 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.

Aside from geekery, I enjoy photography, snowboarding, video games (mostly XBox 360), traveling, and camping, hiking, canoeing, and fishing. My wife and I had our first son on Thanksgiving day of 2008, and our second on January 11th 2011 (at 06:06, even!). We also have 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 started software development by teaching myself VB from a few books when I was around 12 years old, and I've had occasion to dabble in C/C++, Java/JSP, Perl, Natural, PHP, and Ruby. These days my bread and butter are ColdFusion, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and some Flex. 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 software development using ColdFusion 4.5; right around the same time I was taking my first programming courses in High School (A technicality, that. The teacher relied on me to do the school's webserver Linux firmware upgrades, among other things).

Of course, by that point I had been teaching myself for years, so I really hit the ground running and was that guy that got straight A's in all of his Comp Sci 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 this blog uses.