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- 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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Coming Soon: Pimp My Campfire Launch BoingBoing With Ruby & A WiiMote Archaeopteryx: MIDI In Web 2.0 vs. Corruption Ruby ORM API Design Clusterfuck Link Roundup: Zombies And Postmodernist Literary T... Smalltalk: Complaints And Opportunities Best Of Today's Huffington Post Miscellaneous Awesome McCain Attack Piece In Rolling Stone Data Integrity And Towelie's Array Methods YouTube Documentary / Obama Ad Republicans Are The Tax And Spend Party Python: Stupid-Simple YouTube Comment Scraper Scotland On Rails: Call For Proposals GitHub: E-Mail Can't Be Blank Password Gem: v1.3 Released Honestly, I Had No Idea Extinction: One In Four Mammal Species Archaeopteryx: Simple Drum Machine (In ChucK) Economists Favor Obama By Overwhelming Margin Palin: The Opposite Of Feminism The Colour Out Of The Sea RSpec: Pet Peeve Faker Archaeopteryx: RubyFringe Presentation Video At In... Snarky-Type Womens Advocate Political Prankness
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