Luis Majano is a Computer Engineer with over 15 years of software development and systems architecture experience. He was born in San Salvador, El Salvador in the late 70s, during a period of economical instability and civil war. He lived in El Salvador until 1995 and then moved to Miami, Florida where he completed his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering at Florida International University. Luis resides in The Woodlands, Texas with his beautiful wife Veronica, daughter Alexia and son Lucas!
He is the CEO of Ortus Solutions, a consulting firm specializing in web development, ColdFusion (CFML), Java development, and all open-source professional services under the ColdBox, CommandBox, and ContentBox stack. He is the creator of ColdBox, ContentBox, WireBox, TestBox, LogBox, and anything “BOX”, and contributes to many open-source projects. You can read his blog at www.luismajano.com
Luis has a passion for Jesus, tennis, golf, volleyball, and anything electronic. Random Author Facts:
He played volleyball in the Salvadorean National Team at the tender age of 17
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are something he reads every 5 years. (Geek!)
His first ever computer was a Texas Instrument TI-86 that his parents gave him in 1986. After some time digesting his very first BASIC book, he had written his own tic-tac-toe game at the age of 9. (Extra geek!)
He has a geek love for circuits, microcontrollers, and overall embedded systems.
He has of late (during old age) become a fan of organic gardening.
Keep Jesus number one in your life and in your heart. I did and it changed my life from desolation, defeat and failure to an abundant life full of love, thankfulness, joy and overwhelming peace. As this world breathes failure and fear upon any life, Jesus brings power, love and a sound mind to everybody!
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.” – Proverbs 3:5
Wil de Bruin is a Software and System Engineer who has been developing software systems since 1990. He was born in The Netherlands in the '60s and lives in Wageningen, the Netherlands.
He is CTO of the Dutch hosting company Site4u and is next to providing managed servers for Lucee, ColdFusion, and many other platforms, he develops software and provides consultancy and training. He has been working with ColdFusion since v1.5 and uses Coldbox for the 2.x days.
He built his own wood-fired oven where he bakes the best pizzas in town. He is the administrator of the Dutch bread-baking forum, and bakes lots of bread for family, friends, neighbors, and parties.