8 September 2011 12 Comments

Jamis Buck

Jamis Buck

Who is Jamis Buck? I’m just this guy, you know? ;) I’ve been married (blissfully!) for 14 years now. My wife and I live in Idaho, USA, and we have four kids, ranging in age from 2 to 9. We homeschool, and when you combine that with the fact that I work from home, this [...]

22 July 2011 6 Comments

Jon Maddox

Jon Maddox

Who is Jon Maddox? Just a guy that loves to make stuff. I love software because it lets me execute on an idea at 3am with zero raw materials. I love mobile dev because of the amazing accessibility of data. I live in Richmond, Va with my amazing wife Steph (@stephmaddox) and pug Tater. I’ve [...]

24 September 2010 18 Comments

José Valim

José Valim

Who is José Valim? @josevalim An open source developer, a speaker, a musician and an entrepreneur. I’m co-founder and lead developer at Plataforma Tecnologia – a development and consultancy company focused on Ruby and Rails, based in Brazil – and a Rails Core Team member. I am happily living in Kraków with my wife!

15 September 2010 13 Comments

Jeffrey Way

Jeffrey Way

Who is Jeffrey Way? I’m a web developer who has a small (okay, large) case of OCD. Overall, if you do know me, you probably know me as either the Editor of the popular web development tutorial site, Nettuts+, or as the manager of a code marketplace, called CodeCanyon, where we sell scripts, components, premium [...]

23 August 2010 4 Comments

Dion Almaer

Dion Almaer

Who is Dion Almaer? I am a Brit who came over to the US for college. I took my American wife back to life in London for a year, and have lived in each of the timezones in the continental US, ending up in silicon valley where I reside now. I grew up playing cricket [...]

17 August 2010 5 Comments

Kevin Gisi

Kevin Gisi

Who is Kevin  Gisi? Kevin W. Gisi is a software engineer, Eau Claire Ruby User Group co-founder, Rails Rumble administrator, open-source advocate, piano accompanist, and nice guy.

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10 August 2010 7 Comments

Justin Palmer

Justin Palmer

Who is Justin Palmer? I’m a proud Father, a wonderful husband (my wife might be reluctant to confirm this), Trail Blazers fan, amateur Southern cook, and I do both programming and design.  I helped cofound ActiveReload, the company that went on to produce Lighthouse, Warehouse and Mephisto.  Today you can find me at ENTP where [...]

28 June 2010 8 Comments

Jörn Zaefferer

Jörn Zaefferer

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.

14 June 2010 6 Comments

Wynn Netherland

Wynn Netherland

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.

6 June 2010 9 Comments

John Nunemaker

John Nunemaker

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 [...]

17 May 2010 7 Comments

Pete Brown

Pete Brown

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 [...]

15 April 2010 10 Comments

Amber Weinberg

Amber Weinberg

Who is Amber Weinberg? Amber Weinberg is a front end developer who specializes in writing clean, semantic XHTML and CSS. She also specializes in full WordPress and CoreCommerce site implementations and customization. She has over 10 years of experience in making websites.

10 April 2010 5 Comments

Alex Hillman

Alex Hillman

Who is Alex Hillman? I’m the co-founder of IndyHall and a social technology and community developer living in Sunny Philadelphia. I like technology, how people interact with it, and how it helps them interact with each other. I’m also consulting with one of the city’s best advertising firms, Red Tettemer, working to build and tune [...]

10 April 2010 15 Comments

Sergio Bossa

Sergio Bossa

Who is Sergio Bossa? I’m a software developer, sometimes hands-on architect too, with a true passion for clean, elegant and efficient code and architectures, who likes being constantly challenged, learn new things and share them with peers. That’s probably the reason that I love open source (and open communities) so much: open source is the [...]

18 March 2010 9 Comments

Mitch Canter

Mitch Canter

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.

10 March 2010 13 Comments

Ryan Bates

Ryan Bates

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.

7 March 2010 12 Comments

Jordi Boggiano

Jordi Boggiano

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.

4 March 2010 6 Comments

Jens Meiert

Jens Meiert

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 [...]

25 February 2010 4 Comments

Jonathan Christopher

Jonathan Christopher

Who’s Jonathan Christopher? I’m a 25 year old Web developer and designer living and working in Albany, NY. I’m currently the Lead Front End Developer at Overit Media and I’m engaged to be married to the love of my life Carrie in just a few short months.

23 February 2010 8 Comments

Remy Sharp

Remy Sharp

Who is Remy Sharp? Developer first and foremost, but I’ve also been seen to speak at conferences, write and contribute to books, and run my own conference.  I’ve been writing code from an early age, my dad plonking me in front of a spectrum magazine listing for Star Wars. Hours of little finger typing culminating [...]