RailsConf 2007 People

Rodney Koch

2008-05-28T06:29:04+00:00

hollywood, ihateperl, la, losangeles, ticketmaster

Michael Noga

2007-03-09T16:47:45+00:00

NJ, developer, mac, pa, rails

Anthony Ramm

2007-05-16T21:07:47+00:00

birmingham, mac, openadvantage, osx, rails, uk

Develop Rails stuff, admin systems, teach, try to persuade everyone they need to buy a mac, play in a band

Greg

2007-01-12T23:48:33+00:00

Nils Jonsson

2007-03-15T04:30:52+00:00

houston, rails, rest, ruby

I fell in love with the Ruby language and the Rails framework in Fall 2005 and have been working with them full-time since Fall 2006. I’m the developer behind the Validates Constancy plugin and Trestle Generator projects. I have a couple of very trivial patches in Rails trunk
I help moderate Houston.rb, a fairly vital Ruby and Rails user group that has been meeting most recently at my office
I work for DataCert, a software company based in Houston, where I’m part of a small team doing Ruby and Rails development. We’re an ASP.NET shop that has become serious about Rails. We’re developing a hosted Rails app and an installed Rails app for enterprise customers, and we’re acquiring a few battle scars in the process

Ryan Schenk

2007-05-19T00:57:44+00:00

biking, cycling, kiteboarding

I live in Woods Hole, MA and work with internet connectivity with embedded devices. In my spare time, I like mountain / trials biking and kiteboarding.

Carl Porth

2007-04-26T15:33:01+00:00

beer, ecommerce, metal, rails

Carl is currently working on migrating an osCommerce (PHP) site into rails. He is using libraries such as rmagick, rspec, and ujs. He takes advantage of fat model / skinny controller and restful design patterns and likes nothing more than axing ugly code.

David Chelimsky

2007-04-20T15:45:09+00:00

agile, bdd, portugu�s, rspec, speaker

Lead developer on rspec. Musician. Estudante de portugu�s.

Jon Pierce

2007-05-21T20:25:26+00:00

boston

craig t mackenzie

2007-02-05T14:23:15+00:00

20, gay, male, rails, ruby, uk

20yr old uk based rails developer and flash person (try to do less of that these days, rails is my main focus) a little shy when sober.
apple whore.
music whore.
whore.
etc.

Joseph Jaramillo

2007-05-19T18:48:10+00:00

gay, mac, marketing, phoenix, rails

I’m a Rails developer living and working in the Phoenix, AZ area. My foremost interests are in social networks, with several projects in the works along those lines.

Luke Melia

2007-04-26T03:00:21+00:00

TDD, agile, nyc, xp

Luke Melia is the Director of Software Development at Oxygen Media in New York City. He was a founding organizer of the Gotham Ruby Conference, better know as GoRuCo. His activity in the Rails world is largely on the open source project Tracks, where is a major contributor.

Jim Van Fleet

2007-02-11T22:35:43+00:00

alterthought, cvreg, richmond, va

bigfleet@gambit:~$ irb
irb(main):001:0> jim = JimVanFleet.new
irb(main):002:0> jim.profile
NoMethodError: undefined method `profile’ for #

Scott Hanselman

2007-02-21T06:26:59+00:00

.net, asp.net, blog, c#, corillian, efinance, networking, open, rails, ruby, social, source

Scott Hanselman is Chief Architect at the Corillian Corporation, an eFinance enabler. He has over a decade of experience developing software in C, C++, VB, COM, and currently VB.NET and C#, and starting with Ruby and Rails. His thoughts on the Zen of .NET, Programming and Web Services can be found on Scott’s blog

Mike Vincent

2007-04-28T19:43:35+00:00

agile, dallas, fortworth, texas

Phil Hagelberg

2007-02-03T00:06:20+00:00

caboose, emacs, nonconformist, smuglispweenie, tall

RAV (rails diagrams)
Rinari (elisp for hacking rails)
Concourse (railsday project)
Other Lisp silliness
I blog at http://technomancy.us

Craig Schiffbauer

2007-05-19T22:10:09+00:00

Jim Remsik

2007-04-15T15:27:41+00:00

MadRailers, gtd, madison, photography, rails, startup, wisconsin

Rails is one of my many sidejobs at the moment.
Paying the bills schlepping VB/C# with a tinge of Python for the State of Wisconsin – Department of Financial Institutions (http://www.wdfi.org) and Yahara Software (http://www.yaharasoftware.com/).
Digital photography is a passionate hobby for me, especially motorsports photography. I do enough paid work to pay for new equipment.

Mike Moore

2007-02-21T04:33:51+00:00

boise.rb, urug

Ryan Norbauer

2007-05-10T05:43:40+00:00

AJAX, boston, deployment, design, gay, gtd, illustration, lovetastic, lovetastic.com

I am Founder and Partner at Shy Hipster Networks, producers of the Rails-based Lovetastic.com, which went from 25,000 lines of PHP to about 2,000 lines of beautiful Ruby. Lovetastic is a hopeful alternative gay personals community, the first where the focus is on love rather than hook-ups and where a guy’s soul matters as much as his six-pack.
I’m hard at work on two new web applications to help ADD-addled nerds like myself get our lives organized.
If asked nicely, I do Rails consulting from time to time too.

Ron Evans

2007-01-30T20:47:14+00:00

AI, dsl, los-angeles, merb, music

Software developer, contributor to several open source projects, occasional author and speaker, iconoclast

Chris Corriveau

2007-02-03T18:01:18+00:00

boston, cape_cod, cycling, genevate, ma, rails

I’m a Web Developer and Entrepreneur on Cape Cod. I’m a founder of Genevate, creating web applications and functional websites for small to medium sized businesses.
I’m looking to network with other developers in my area of MA or any other location, that do contract work. Connect with me if you’re from around my area or looking to work on a fun project or two.

Jon Maddox

2007-02-19T05:10:12+00:00

apple, beer, boxcar, cvreg, osx, pizza, pugs, richmond, twitter, unix, virginia, web

Coming strait out of Richmond, Va – Jon is a single developer in a creative context at Riddick Advertising.
His Rails Foo lets them get creative and throw out great sites for their clients without the expensive overhead that most sites require.
He’s always working on something, be it for work or play.
He learned so much and had so much fun with everyone at RailsConf 2006 he couldn’t stay away.
Message him
twitter: maddox
mobile: 804.519.5512

Peter Marreck

2007-05-16T23:28:59+00:00

apple, baltimore, beer, boston, dslite, mac, nyc, rails, ruby, sailing, san-francisco, sfo

Web developer currently working at Keane.com (in the Architecture Services group) who loves ruby, rails and web dev. Beer optional but encouraged. Other interests include sailing, biking, all sorts of gaming (poker, boardgames, computer games, console games) and extreme socializing.
Note: I have listed NYC/Baltimore/SanFran as I am considering moving to one of those places given a good opportunity…

Clifford Heath

2007-03-08T00:05:27+00:00

australian, modeling, orm, ruby, tools

Enterprise software tools developer, trainer, systems designer, design methodologist and consultant with a focus on thin client technologies and information modeling. Also builds guitars and digital electronics, skis, bodysurfs and orienteers.

Gregg Kellogg

2007-04-26T18:58:33+00:00

architect, california, developer, flex, marin, music, rails

Marin County based architect and developer.

John Gross

2007-02-03T08:30:49+00:00

Israel, LIMS, TDD, biology, design, mac, rails, ruby, textmate

I am behind Bioldata.com , a company doing LIMS (lab information management systems) for the academy. the service is rails based.
Interested in making new contacts in the upcoming railsConf.
very excited about it !.

Robert Berger

2007-05-18T01:10:06+00:00

ec2, wireless

Robert is a consultant to VCs, manufacturers, carriers, and ISPs with a focus on
the intersection of technology, markets, and society with Open Standards,
Open Source Software, Open Spectrum, multimedia and Internet infrastructure.
Currently working on projects around Scaling Rails/LAMP stack via Amazon EC2, teleconferenceing, outsourced infrastructure and muni-wireless

Danger

2007-01-13T00:09:50+00:00

danger, jokester, plugins, poetry, rails, railsforum.com, seattle

my life with Rails, in sonnet form:

So oft have I invoked thee for my code,
And found such fair assistance in my script
As every web-worn language I have known
And next to thee their syntax looks like shit.
Thine blocks, that steal all objects in my scope
binding what’s done to what has yet to be
and ActionPack which breathes new life to strings
and handed Hashes renewed majesty
You have no fear of those that do compile,
nor those that procedurally do run
You’ve replaced the tears of Java with fresh smiles,
And your free sugar syntax makes code fun
Be thou all my art, and shine thy beauty through
And usher in the world of Web v.2

Evan Light

2007-05-17T22:21:40+00:00

mac, ruby, skype, twitter

I have been a software engineer for over twelve years having spent 3 or 4 years using C and 8 years with Java while touching on several other languages along the way—now including Ruby.