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Evangelist for Rails Rumble
Speaking engagements:
2012-11-23
All Your Base Conf
Oxford, England
http://www.allyourbaseconf.com/2012/
Gave "Redis, Steady, Go!" talk about Redis.
2012-06-26
ScotlandJS
Edinburgh, Scotland
I gave the opening keynote about the history of the Web.
2012-01-24
Stupid Stunts for Rampant Rubyists
Surrey Rubyists
2011-08-01
Introduction to Ruby
Geekup Nottingham
Nottingham, UK
2011-03-05
Self Promotion for Over-Thinkers
Think Visibility
Leeds, UK
2010-09-22
Obscurity Bytes! Self Promotion for Geeks
Geekup Doncaster
Doncaster, UK
2010-08-01
Ignoring Common Sense: The Aircraft Carrier Made of Ice and Other Technical Flights of Fancy
Geekup Nottingham
Nottingham, UK
2010-06-24
Redis 101: A whirlwind tour of the next big thing in NoSQL storage
Hull Digital
Hull, UK
2009-03-06
Passion, Properly Pursued, and Why Journeys are Important
Think Visibility
Leeds, UK
2008-04-01
Introduction to Ruby
Ruby Fools 2008
Copenhagen, Denmark
2008-03-29
Chaired evening panel of Euruko 2008
Prague, Czechia
2008-03-01
Building a multi user dungeon in Ruby
Barcamp Manchester
Manchester, UK
Authorship and Reviewership:
Beginning Ruby, published by Apress
1st edition - 2007
2nd edition - 2009
3rd edition - 2011
4th edition - under development for 2021
Ruby 2.0 Walkthrough
Ruby 1.9 Walkthrough
Referee of "Controlling a Robotic Marine Environmental Sampler
with the Ruby Scripting Language"
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1016/j.jala.2006.07.013
"Indexing and Searching" chapter of Ruby in Practice (2009)
Published by Manning
Reviewer for "Technical Blogging" by Antonio Cangiano
Technical reviewer for Pragmatic Guide to Sass by Hampton
Catlin and Michael Lintorn.
Essential Ruby, published by DZone
2008
https://dzone.com/refcardz/essential-ruby
Technical reviewer of The Revolutionary Guide to QBasic
(1996) by Victor Munerman, Evgeny Yemelchenkov, and
Tatyana Samoylova.
Podcasting:
Co-host of The JavaScript Show
2011-2013
Co-host of The Ruby Show
2010-2013
Ruby Rogues panelist
Episodes 1-10
JavaScript Jabber panelist
Episode 1
Training:
Ruby Reloaded
July 2011, August 2011, November 2011, December 2011, July 2012
~120 students approx
CodeLesson Ruby course
January 2011, February 2011, May 2011, October 2011, November 2011, January 2012
104 students in total
Projects:
Code Snippets
A tagged code snippets site I created in 2005 and sold to DZone in 2007.
Feed Digest
A Web feed/RSS manipulation and syndication service I launched in 2005
and sold to Vicman Technologies in 2007. Users included NASA, Denver Post,
MIT, The Smithsonian Institution, and the US Department of Agriculture.
Traffic was 250m requests per month.
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Moderator of /r/ruby since 2012
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