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- Giles Bowkett
- Giles Bowkett began working with the Web when Java was about applets, PHP didn't exist, and Perl didn't even have SQL or HTTP libraries. Since then he's worked with Java, Python, PHP, ASP, Flash, and tons of Perl. He began working with Ruby on Rails in late 2005 and has worked exclusively with Ruby since mid-2006.
Giles wrote the initial client-facing app for Hulu, the groundbreaking (and revenue-generating) video site, one of the highest-traffic Rails sites on the Web. His blog gets around 50,000 pageviews per month. His writing's appeared in Wired, XLR8R, The Rubyist, and Advanced Rails Recipes, and he's released at least 10 Ruby open source projects, including Archaeopteryx, an AI which generates original drum rhythms. In 2008 he's speaking at 9 conferences and 3 user groups. He has no degree, but has received professional training in acting, film, realistic drawing, color theory, and pro audio production.
He wrote this third-person for a conference and would totally switch it back to first-person, except he's really tired.
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Blog Archive
► September (48)
Blogger Claims They Can Prove I Am A Bot Fuck ChucK Finally! Coherent, Simple Singularity Rebuttal This Is Not A DJ Mix Towelie Has Some Weird Code Republican Vote-Tampering Machine Swinging Into Ge... Stanton DaScratch DJ MIDI Controller Did I Dream You Dreamed About Me It's A Nice Day To Start Again A Heart-Warming Love Story Obama Campaign Needs Coders Now If McCain Gets In, Run Everything Is Made Of Techno Republican Meltdown: Thomas Frank Predicted It Let's Play Wall Street Bailout! Web Comic Art: Three Panel Soul Rushkoff FTW Panic In The Streets Of Pecos Copyright Violation: Every Artist's Birthright Rock Stars, Gurus, Ninjas, And Zen Masters Preach On, Brother: Fight Club For Hackers Crowdsourcing A Lightbulb Joke The Difference Between Liberals And Conservatives Monkey-Patch Which Prohibits Monkey-Patching Flay Is Coming But Towelie Is Here This Is A Serious Allegation! Be Careful With git commit -a Sexual Attractiveness Metric: Cruelty To Animals Speaking At RubyConf Aliens May Already Walk The Earth Towelie: IRB Refactoring Spooky Typograffyty Towelie Keeps Your Code DRY Quick Graf Cheap Graf Horror Fiction And Greek Tragedy Archaeopteryx: Social Networking Site (Forum) Biden: "The Silence Is Deafening" Rake Command-Line Options Archaeopteryx: Forked Versions On GitHub This Cost 10 Million Dollars Bobcats Take Over Foreclosed Home
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