My name is Joel
I work on the web making stuff I like. I live in Boston(-ish) with my wife and our English Bulldog.
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Slides available for Railsconf 2011
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Take a look fast because I’m sure some (not all) of these won’t last long. More are on the way as I comb through the twitter stream of speakers providing links.
Zach Holman – Double-Shipping Software for Profit – http://zachholman.com/talk/2011/railsconf
Jeff Casimir – Fat Models Aren’t Enough – http://dl.dropbox.com/u/69001/Fat%20Models%20Aren%27t%20Enough%20-%20RailsConf.pdf
Matt Parker – Readme Driven Development – http://www.slideshare.net/moonmaster9000/readme-driven-development
John Nunemaker – Why You Should Never Use an ORM – http://speakerdeck.com/u/jnunemaker/p/why-you-should-never-use-an-orm
John Athayde and Bruce Williams – Building Bulletproof Views – http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/59/Building%20Bulletproof%20Views%20Presentation.pdf
Derek Collison – Cloud Foundry – The Rails Developer’s Perspective – http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/59/Cloud%20Foundry%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Rails%20Developer%E2%80%99s%20Perspective%20Presentation.pdf
Nick Gauthier – KnowSQL: Database Tricks To Make Your Life Easier – http://knowsql.heroku.com/
Clinton R. Nixon – Upgrading Legacy Rails Applications to Rails 3 – http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/59/Upgrading%20Legacy%20Rails%20Applications%20to%20Rails%203%20Presentation.pdf
Mikel Lindsaar – Keeping Rails on the Tracks – http://www.slideshare.net/raasdnil/keeping-rails-on-the-tracks
Adam Keys – Mixing a Persistence Cocktail – http://speakerdeck.com/u/therealadam/p/mixing-a-persistence-cocktail-1
Hiro Asari – 20 Productivity Tips
pdf http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1788208/ProductivityTips.pdf
keynote http://bit.ly/mqlGxi
Matteo Latini – Building Bulletproof Views – http://therailsview.com/building-bulletproof-views-rc2011.pdf
Bryan Liles – Active Support – http://smartic.us/doodads/presentations/railsconf2011/#1
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That’s it. I’m going naked.
Monday, December 28th, 2009
No, not without my clothes. That would be, just … not right.
This website had been in its previous state for a while, probably the last year or so, with little traction. The vast majority of this stagnation being due to my working on implementing a design put together by the always amazing Erika Greco (she designed my wife’s site – Bit By the Beauty Bug). I loved what Erika had done – and I worked on getting it juuuust right for a long time. After months and months of on and of work on implementing this beautiful work I decided – “It’s time to get back to the basics”. There’s no need to get stuck in the cycle of working and re-working ad nauseum (my name is not George Broussard).
So, I’m deciding to strip everything down to the barest of mark-up and style and concentrate on letting this “brand” or “identity” grow organically through either the content or whatever incremental changes I feel are right. Instead of trying to hit a done target, let’s get real and let this grow organically to a point where I feel it’s done enough.
What does this do for me, you might ask? It allows me to write without a nagging voice in the back of my head saying “you can publish this once the new redesign is live”. When new projects I’m working on launch – I’m just going to post something about it instead of worrying that “the portfolio section of the site isn’t done yet … oh the horror!”.
Over time I hope to make some incremental changes to make things less ugly, but only time will tell. I’ll be documenting things as they change for posterity’s sake so I can review how time has treated it, and maybe share its mutation with everyone with hopes any and all feedback would make me better.
So, please bear with me while I hang out here all exposed and vulnerable and stuff. It’s only appropriate to bring in 2010 like Baby New Year.
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Air Edie
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
These photos were taken one afternoon when I went to take the little Chubbster out to the courtyard. I ran into our neighbor Andrew as he was out their with his super-duper high-tech Nikon DSLR. Edie went nuts and the photos above are the result. A huge thanks to Andrew and an equally large thanks to the dog for being such a photogenic weirdo.
Tags: brookline, bulldog, courtyard, Edie, english bulldog, nikon, photography
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