The Geek Talk

Who is Tekkub? I’m a whiny, lazy, hermit of a programmer that lives on a “mountain” in Golden, CO.  I run GitHub’s tech support and do some Ruby on Rails programming on the side.  I also have a *small* collection of World of Warcraft addons I’ve written over the years.  I live with my partner [...]

Who is Emma Taylor? I’m a free­lance web designer liv­ing the dream in Cyprus (originally from the UK). Spe­cial­is­ing in user inter­face web design with a love for clean, simple but well thought out designs, the interwebs, tea, doodling, pos­i­tive think­ing, any­thing apple & my friends and family.

Who is Peter-Paul Koch? Web developer, browser tester, teacher, explaining the mobile web to the masses, historian, conference speaker and organiser, curator of  Quirksmode.

Who is Rick Olson? Part open source programmer, father of one, and comic book fanboy.  I live in Portland, OR, and work at GitHub.  Before that, I launched two bootstrapped web products as the lead developer.

Who is Chad Fowler? I’m a husband, programmer, musician, learner, teacher, author, (spoken) language enthusiast, recent fitness junkie, and aspiring retiree. I am CTO for InfoEther by day a director for Ruby Central, for which I co-organize the official Ruby and Rails conferences. I also teach for Pragmatic Studio with Dave Thomas of the Pragmatic [...]

Who is Jörn Zaefferer? A human being from Cologne, Germany. Working as software developer and consultant, mostly Java-based desktop and web applications. Team member of the jQuery project, heavily involved in the development of QUnit and jQuery UI.

Who is Chouser? I’m a father, husband, follower of Christ, and programming enthusiast.  Some people call me Chris Houser. Where and when did you start programming? My brother bought a TI-99/4A home computer when I was about 5 or 6, and within a year I was writing simple BASIC programs made up mostly of PRINT [...]

Who is Fogus? A programmer in Northern Virginia.  I am co-authoring a book entitled The Joy of Clojure with Chris Houser.

Who’s Derek Sivers? Entrepreneur, writer, musician, programmer.  People know me most for founding CD Baby, but more recently for my TED talks and articles at sivers.org.  I’m a passionate learner and experimenter, driven to understand life better, and share what I learn.  I judge myself by how much useful stuff I’ve created.

Who is Eric Meyer? A father, a husband, a speaker, a conference organizer, an author, and a reader.  A proud and happy resident of Cleveland, Ohio and a traveler of the world.  A man of many words in print but fewer in person, an aficionado of all kinds of music, and a semi-competent coder.  A [...]

Who is Wynn Netherland? I’m a Christian husband and father who can’t believe he gets paid to do what he truly loves to do – coding on the front-end of the Interwebs.

Who is Stephan Schmidt? I’m head of development at brands4friends, a shopping club or flash ecommerce site. We sell mainly clothes for reduced prices and a limited time, like a summer sale every day. Beside that I’m a programmer, blogger and speaker at conferences.

Who is Daniel Spiewak? Vell, Daniel’s just zis guy, you know?

Who is Alex Popescu? I am a software engineer/architect/code hacker and co-founder of InfoQ. I’m also running the myNoSQL blog which is focusing on all things NoSQL.

Who is Chris Coyier ? I’m just some guy.

Who is Seth Godin? I’ve written a dozen books, I have a blog and I’ve started two internet companies. My passion is positive change, pushing people to make the impact they’re capable of, even if it means overthrowing the status quo. For a living, I notice things and point them out. For thrills, I cross [...]

Who is Robey Pointer? An infrastructure engineer at Twitter (@robey). Recently, I’ve been on the FlockDB & Gizzard teams there, and in the past I’ve done things like kestrel, paramiko, and eggdrop. I live in the Mission district of San Francisco, where I like to hang out at the local whiskey bars, but I grew [...]

Who is John Nunemaker? I am a farm boy, turned web developer, who has fallen deeply in love with Ruby and MongoDB. I work at Ordered List with Steve Smith and teach JavaScript at the University of Notre Dame. I reside in South Bend, IN with my wife, Stephanie, and a couple crazy cats, Bob [...]

Who is Chris Pederick? I am a developer originally from England, but now living in San Francisco. I moved out here with work and originally worked with clients at an agency mainly as a back-end developer focused primarily on Java. I am now a front-end developer at a sports startup called Bleacher Report. The idea [...]

Who is Liz Andrade? I am a (barely still) 20-something designer living Seattle, WA. I own and operate CMD+Shift Design, a one-woman graphic design studio that specialized in creating custom tailored solutions to grow business through both online and print marketing. I also write a blog about freelancing, design and business. …I’m also completely obsessed [...]

Who is Selene M. Bowlby? I’m a web designer and front-end web developer with over ten years of professional experience in the design industry. As the the owner of iDesign Studios, I specialize in creating custom web sites for other businesses – focusing primarily on custom WordPress theme design and development. I also blog on [...]

Who is Jackie? Jackie is a freelance web designer in Cape Town, South Africa – I specialise in interface design. I have over 10 years of experience in the industry – 2 of which I’ve been freelancing fulltime. I work with agencies based in South Africa, but also UK, USA, Australia and Dubai.

Who is Sarah Parmenter? I am a user interface and user experience designer based in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex.

Who is Pete Brown? I’m a father of two, woodworker, railfan, author, Commodore C64 fan, and a Community Program Manager at Microsoft. In my role at Microsoft, I work on Scott Hanselman’s team with a focus on the WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, Windows, and other “code on the client” developer communities. I try to [...]

Who is Koen Bok? A 27 year-old guy from Amsterdam who co-founded Sofa, a software company that likes to build great interaction on the Mac and the web.