Jim is an application developer, software architect, and systems administrator who has spent half of his life as a professional programmer. He is the founder and CTO of Linkdrop (www.linkdrop.com), a bookmarking and link sharing service, and also the founder and president of GRAPE Stack (www.grapestack.com), an open source application development platform. In addition to his entrepreneurial endeavors, Jim serves a consultant to various businesses and organizations and participates in many open source communities, which includes being a member of Team ColdBox and being an active member of the Railo community. Outside of work, Jim enjoys reading, playing and listening to music, attending concerts, learning new technologies, doing hobby electronics, studying and taking online courses, playing video games, and helping other people learn how to do and build things whenever he has the opportunity.