Community News Category Definition
Jeff Howden
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User since: 14 Dec 1998
Articles written: 21
The Community News category will alleviate communication gaps between site visitors, members and participants on the various evolt.org mailing lists. It will provide one place for you to keep up on the latest additions and features to the evolt.org web site and serve as an information source announcing new lists, sub-sites, and projects. It will serve as an on-site duplicate for important announcements sent to our lists, such as server down time.
A regular community newsletter detailing the adventures and accomplishments of evolt.org members will also be featured here; more details on this new project to come in the near future.
So, if you're hosting a Beervolt in your area, hoping to coordinate the next CodeFest, or read up on the next planned Evoltageddon, this is the place to look.
Jeff Howden (.jeff) is a web developer working for Vos & Howden, LLC in Portland, Oregon where he's partnered with long-time colleague, Anthony Vos. His skills include ColdFusion, JavaScript, CSS, XML, relational databases, and much, much more. His biggest professional accomplishments include, but are not limited to:
- building a ColdFusion-based e-commerce solution for Mt. Bachelor that transacted over $1.62 million dollars in September 2001 with 0 (yes, that's zero) ColdFusion errors and then an almost completely rebuilt version transacted $2.86 million dollars in September 2002.
- being asked to be a Technical Editor for the ColdFusion MX book, Inside ColdFusion MX from New Rider's Publishing company.
- being asked by BrainBench to perform quality control on their JavaScript 1.5 certification test after receiving the highest beta test score out of 200 testees.
- managing the server that hosts evolt.org and withstanding a slashdotting that brought over 1,000,000 hits to the site, over 10 gigs of data transfer, and an average in excess of 2300 unique visitor sessions per hour, all within a 24-hour period and the server never hiccuping once.
