Andrew C. Schwabe is president of IEXP Software, LLC and is a veteran CFML developer since 1998. Prior to working with IEXP, Andrew worked for 10 years as the president and chairman of the Board of Internet Expressions, Inc. He has been the forerunner in developing numerous applications ranging from the free - CFX_RawSocket (a Java Custom Tag for ColdFusion) - to FusionDox (enterprise-level document management). Andrew has been deeply involved in developing many of these applications from the ground up, enhancing and using the ColdFusion platform to its fullest potential. In addition to his extensive ColdFusion experience, he has been recognized in the business community, receiving the coveted Dale Carnegie Highest Achievement Award.
As a ColdFusion developer, hopefully by now you have heard at least a little
about XML (eXtensible Markup Language). Wikipedia defines XML as a
"general-purpose markup language" designed to "facilitate the sharing of
data" and also designed to be "relatively human-legible."
If you need primer on the basics of what XML is and the rules of how it's
structured, a good place to start is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML.
Nowadays we see XML in regular daily use. RSS Feeds, podcasts, and Web
Services are all XML, or use XML to exchange information. Even HTML is
related and basically a type of XML (loosely, but that's a long discussion
for another time). It's no coincidence that we see XML in use for
mass-distributed or syndicated content - XML is designed for a few key
purposes: 1) as a format that can easily be interpreted by software, and 2)
containing only the data and... (more)
Andrew C. Schwabe is president of IEXP Software, LLC and is a veteran CFML developer since 1998. Prior to working with IEXP, Andrew worked for 10 years as the president and chairman of the Board of Internet Expressions, Inc. He has been the forerunner in developing numerous applications ranging from the free - CFX_RawSocket (a Java Custom Tag for ColdFusion) - to FusionDox (enterprise-level document management). Andrew has been deeply involved in developing many of these applications from the ground up, enhancing and using the ColdFusion platform to its fullest potential. In addition to his extensive ColdFusion experience, he has been recognized in the business community, receiving the coveted Dale Carnegie Highest Achievement Award.
David Lucas
Shaul Efraim
Terence Martin Breslin
Cory Marchand
David Hughes
James Carlini
John Iffert
Dan Stolts
Joe Zeto
