The Geek Talk

Who is Steve Jenson? A programmer living in San Francisco, CA. I write software in Scala and Ruby at Twitter, Inc where I work on the Infrastructure team.

Who is Karl Swedberg? By day I’m a web developer at Fusionary, specializing in client-side interaction. I love my job and the people who work there. I’m also the husband of a beautiful woman and the father of a 9-year-old boy and 7-year-old girl. I grew up outside of Philadelphia, spent some time in Virginia [...]

Who is Mitch Canter? Me! No seriously, Mitch Canter is a WordPress Theme Designer from Nashville TN.  He loves photography, long walks on the beach, and shorthand CSS.

Who is Chris Nagele? I’m the founder of Wildbit, a web software company. We build and run web products including Beanstalk, Newsberry, and Postmark.

Who is Debasish Ghosh? I am the CTO of Anshinsoft Corp, though I would like to call myself a technology evangelist, a hacker and a programmer at heart. I love programming and, if it were a socially acceptable norm, I would like to do only that and nothing else in my day job. I have [...]

Who is Viktor Klang? I’m a senior systems analyst at Yves Rocher during the day, where i do Java development, system architecture, project management and other Swiss-army-knife duties, and at night I wear a colorful spandex outfit and fight crime… and contribute code, thoughts and time to the Akka project as well as the Atmosphere [...]

Who is Timothy Perrett? I am a technical specialist at a division of Xerox corporation during the day, and a Lift and Akka committer during my spare time. More recently, I became an author and started writing a book on Lift called “Lift in Action” to be released later in 2010. I spend most of [...]

Who is Alex Payne? I’m a software developer, programmer, engineer, or whatever you want to call the thing where you write code all day and dream about code all night and get paid for it. I’ve been programming professionally since I was too young to legally hold a work permit. I love what I do. [...]

Who is Derek Chen-Becker? I’m a code craftsman and proud father of two highly energetic little boys. My job title is actually Senior Network Engineer/Security Architect, but I work in a small IT shop and I do just about everything from software development to server administration on top of my networking duties. Probably about two [...]

Who is Marius Danciu? I’m a programmer coming from Java world. I’ve been designing and architecting server side applications for more then 8 years. I fell in love with Scala a few years ago and for more than 2 years I’m a LiftWeb comitter enjoying every minute of it. I’m a co-author for “The Definitive [...]

Who is Ryan Bates? I host and produce Railscasts, free Ruby on Rails screencasts which are released every Monday. Teaching is my passion, and I love doing it through screencasts.

Who is Dr Nic Williams? I tentatively started referring to myself as ‘Dr Nic’ in 2006 on forums and blog comments after I created my blog http://drnicwilliams.com I acquired that domain only because some clown had just taken http://nicwilliams.com Similarly, I wasn’t able to get nicwilliams@gmail.com when I created an account. My history online shows [...]

Who is Jordi Boggiano? Programmer and geek mostly, trying to remain human the rest of the time. I’m also a world class procrastinator, not helped by the tendency to start too many projects at the same time. I love music and spend most of my day blasting my ears off.

Who is Jina Bolton? A designer, author, and speaker, and an enthusiast in all things sushi.

Who’s Kailoon? A freelance web designer.

Who’s Sam Brown? I’m a freelance interface designer and web standards developer from Edinburgh, Scotland.

Who is Eva-Lotta Lamm? I’m a designer – currently doing interaction design for Skype by day and doing lots of other little things the rest of the time… currently I’m working with a fashion designer friend to update the graphics for her boutique that is reopening in March, I am learning processing and I do [...]

Who is Elliot Jay Stocks? A designer (primarily for web but also for print), an illustrator, a speaker, and an author.

Who’s Jens Meiert? I’m a web developer and information designer working for Google in California. I’m also a (rather less than more active) contributor to standards like HTML, CSS, and WCAG. I write and review for O’Reilly. And when I don’t do all that I try to do something useful and publish random professional stuff [...]

Who is Nick La? I’m a Toronto based illustrator and web designer. I run N.Design Studio, Web Designer Wall, Design Jobs on the Wall, IconDock, and Best Web Gallery.

Who is Heiko Seeberger? I’m an OSGi expert and Scala enthusiast. While running WeigleWilczek, a small software company, I am still a daily hacker. I am an active open source committer to Lift and Eclipse and creator of the ScalaModules project. Beside of my job I am a dad and a climber, not necessarily in [...]