Adam Weller - Lead Developer and Co-Founder
Adam has been working in data-driven web design and development since 1998; for the last seven years, with a global web-hosting provider in system operations, development, and QA. He works in Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl and C#, as well as database design and programming in Sybase, MYSQL, Oracle and MSSQL.

At 71Miles, Adam tries to use open source and open standards technologies whenever possible. The current web application framework is PHP / MYSQL running on Apache 2.2 and Linux. - a setup that was mostly predetermined by secting WordPress for our content management system. The 71Miles events and map points come from parsing Google Calendar feeds using MagpieRSS, the Zend Framework and the Dojo Toolkit. The Kayak hotel data is obtained via a Ruby client and Kayak’s XML API (and asynchronously via Dojo).

In his free time, Adam surfs the warm water of South Florida almost every day (weather permitting). Geography permitting, he is also an avid snow skier. Adam grew up in Reston, Virginia.

Buzzword update (Wed Sep 5 17:34:28 EDT 2007):

Added a rails application server to the mix. Making use of ActiveRecord Migrations for db maintenance, exposing event data to the map in json (soon to be kml) and to provide a framework so we can use BackgroudRB to manage our api calls (e.g., kayak, gcal)…

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