Tim Bray's Blog  

Michael "max" Maximilien, Ph.D., IBM

Day 1 – Friday, April 18, 2008

Day 2 – Saturday, April 19, 2008

 Speaker Bios:

Peter Armstrong, co-founder of Ruboss Technology Corporation(http://www.ruboss.com in Vancouver, B.C. and author of Manning book, Flexible Rails: Flex3 on Rails 2 is the co-creator of the Ruboss Framework (http://code.google.com/p/ruboss/), the RESTful way to develop Flex and AIR applications that easily integrate with Ruby on Rails. Flexible Rails: Flex 3 on Rails 2 (http://manning.com/armstrong/), is the definitive tutorial on using Adobe Flex 3 and Ruby on Rails 2 together. Peter has been developing rich client applications since 1999, and has worked with Flex full-time since July 2004 (since Flex 1.0). He was a key part of the Silicon Valley startup team whose Flex application won the 2006 Adobe MAX Award for RIA/Web Development. Peter is the organizer of the Vancouver Ruby/Rails Meetup group, and is a frequent speaker on using Flex and Rails together

Tim Bray, Sun Bray managed the Oxford English Dictionary project at the  University of Waterloo in 1987-1989; co-founded Open Text Corporation  (Nasdaq:OTEX) in 1989; launched one of the first public web search  engines in 1995; co-invented XML 1.0 and co-edited "Namespaces in XML"  between 1996 and 1999;  served as a Tim Berners-Lee appointee on the  W3C Technical Architecture Group in 2002-2004. Currently, he serves as  Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems.

He has been leading Sun's efforts to open up to dynamic-language  technologies.  He has keynoted at RailsConf and spoken at a couple of  Ruby Conferences, has constructed a blog commenting system and the Atom  Protocol Exerciser in Ruby, and enjoys playing Werewolf.

Joel Dudley, Bioinformatics Specialist, Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research at the Stanford University School of Medicine. His research is focused in the area of translational bioinformatics, where he applies novel computational approaches to accelerate the translation of fundamental genomics discoveries into medicine. Outside of academia, Joel has kept his Ruby chops fresh by working as the lead developer for PeerClip.com, a Rails-based startup in the Health 2.0 space, and SimpleSeating.com, an Web 2.0 app built during the very early days of Rails.

Jason A. Hoffman founder and the Chief Technology Officer of Joyent, an on-demand infrastructure and cloud computing company that serves billions of page views and traffics hundreds of millions of emails per month.

Joyent is dedicated to the singular mission that developers should be able to start at a small scale and flex to a global scale with minimal friction. Joyent is among the world’s largest OpenSolaris installations and while supporting all unix-based languages and data stores, Joyent’s products have included the first production support of Ruby on Rails, inclusion of the ZFS file system, and Joyent’s DTrace-enabled Ruby ships on MacOS X Leopard and soon on OpenSolaris.

Dr. Anant Jhingran is a Distinguished Engineer, VP and CTO for IBM's Information Management Division. He is responsible for the technical strategy of products and solutions in databases, content management, business intelligence and information integration. Prior to this job, Dr. Jhingran lead the IBM team designing and building solutions to meet the requirements of business analytics on structured and unstructured data. He has also been the director of Computer Science at the IBM Almaden Research Center and before that, senior manager for e-Commerce and data management at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center Anant’s blog:http://jhingran.typepad.com/

Julian I. Kamil, IBM Centers for Solution Innovation, Washington DC. As an Architect and the Technical Practice Leader for the Innovation Center in Washington DC, Julian has been leading several engagements to design and develop solutions for IBM customers across the public and private sectors ranging from a virtual museum for the Smithsonian Institution to a 3D virtual world collaborative application for fashion designers and many others in between -- with Ruby on Rails as one of the ingredients. Prior to working for IBM, Julian was the CTO of a Washington DC startup company where he led the development of a DARPA commissioned intelligent network intrusion protection system, and the founder and principal of his own startup company. http://blog.juliankamil.com/

John Lam, IronRuby Guy and Open Source Ambassador, Microsoft. IronRuby is Microsoft's Open Source implementation of Ruby that runs real Ruby programs (and yes, Rails is a real Ruby program). It is built on top of the Dynamic Language Runtime, which is our new Open Source platform for dynamic languages. IronRuby + DLR runs everywhere that .NET runs today, from Windows to Mac (via Silverlight) to Linux (via Mono). John is a recent émigré from Toronto Canada and is loving life in the hilly Northwest.

Alex Le is a co-founder of Serious Business Inc, the creators of Friends for Sale. He was previously a software engineer at Powerset, where he worked on their consumer facing search engine product. Before that, he was a software engineer at YellowPages.com, where he led the transition of the YellowPages.com infrastructure into one of the largest Ruby on Rails deployments on the internet.

James Moline,lead developer, ELC Technologies. Prior to ELC, Moline
was Development Manager for Computer Generated Solutions where he spent 9 years developing numerous applications in ASP and .Net.  His projects included designing Case Management and Knowledge Base systems, which were competitive with Remedy, for organizations such as IBM and Dell. Moline became a Ruby on Rails and Open Source technologies convert upon joining ELC and immediately began sinking his teeth into Solr and the acts_as_solr implementations.

Tom Mornini, Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder, Engine Yard to provide the infrastructure and support necessary to fuel development of Ruby on Rails applications. He has spent nearly 30 years as a software programmer and software architect and 20 years leading companies as a serial entrepreneur. Prior to starting Engine Yard in 2006 with co-founders Lance Walley, Ezra Zygmuntowicz and Jayson Vantuyl, he created FaceBridge Research, Inc., a billing service for video-over-IM systems, and InfoMania Printing and Prepress, Inc., an innovator in Internet print procurement. He also served as software architect at Quios.com, responsible for designing the platform that allowed the mobile messaging company to grow into a global provider with more than 130 employees.

Britt Selvitelle, developer, Twitter whose works include Userscripts.org, Twitter, as well as contribution to underlying OpenSource components used in many large scale websites. He currently resides in the beautiful city of San Francisco, and spends most of his sparing freetime on his bike, or thinking of ways modern software can keep people intimately connected and inspired). His personal website is lukewarmtapioca.com.

Parker Thompson, Senior engineer at Pivotal Labs.  He works in Pivotal's start-up practice, collaborating with entrepreneurs on consumer facing web products, and leading development teams building and launching early versions of these products.  In addition, he serves as product manager for several internal products.  Prior to joining Pivotal he co-founded and was CTO/Lead Ruby Hacker at PlaceSite, and was a Data Archivist at the Internet Archive where he built systems for collecting and managing large data sets.

Adam Wiggins, Heroku, is an open source enthusiast, and programming bad-ass from San Francisco.  He is a cofounder of Heroku (http://heroku.com) and author of open source projects such as rush (http://rush.heroku.com), the Ruby replacement for bash+ssh; rest-client (http://rest-client.heroku.com); and yaml_db.  His past projects include Gyre (Ruby/Rails debugger) and the Bitscribe agile screencasts (http://bitscribe.net/screencasts.php), including the one that coined the term "atomic coding" (http://bitscribe.net/screencast.php?cast=atomic).  He is a contributor to the upcoming Advanced Rails Recipes by Mike Clark.  He blogs at http://adam.blog.heroku.com/

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