Working With Rails

I’m a consultant that enjoys working with startups who are creative, challenging, and passionate about their idea. I’m well versed in Ruby, Rails, rSpec, Test Unit, REST, Test Driven Development, as well as the challenges face with starting a company.

I’m an alumni of the SDRuby group and an active member in the Kansas City Ruby User Group. I have also a presented and organized the conferences MerbCamp and BarCamp San Diego

Expertise

- Ruby on Rails, Edge Rails, & Merb (contributor)

- Rspec, Shoulda, & Test Unit

- RESTful Architecture

- MySQL Database, CouchDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite

- Mac, Linux (Desktop and Server), Windows

- HTML / XHTML / HTML5, CSS, Unobtrusive JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery, Prototype

- Apache, Nginx, Phusion Passenger, Mongrel, Mongrel Cluster

- Git, Subversion

- Amazon Web Services
    * Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
    * Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
    * Amazon CloudFront Service (Amazon’s CDN)
    * Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS)

- Agile Development, Scrum, Test Driven Development

              

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