Working With Rails

Mike has given a number of presentations on ruby and/or rails

• TSOT Rails night
  • “Inside Date.once” in April 2008
• TSOT Rails night
  • “Exploring the magic behind dynamic finders: diving into ActiveRecord::Base.method_missing” in March 2008
  • Presentation on “behind the scenes at EasyBrandingTools.com” where he showed some of the more interesting bits of code and how they leveraged ruby and rails. Feb 2008
• Colorado Software Summit
  • Introduction to Ruby for Java programmers in October 2006
  • Introduction to Rails in October 2006.
  • BOF on Ruby on Rails in October 2005
• Durham IT Association
  • Ruby on Rails in August 2006
  • Ruby on Rails in February 2005
  • Shorter samples of ruby code at “language nights” on earlier months

• He is a founder of EasyBrandingTools.com, which leveraged ruby and rails to get to market faster. This went into production in 2007
• He wrote Literary List, a site to track books that was written in rails. This went into production in 2005.

Mike was one of the founding members of the first Toronto Ruby Users Group that started in 2000. (Not the same group as TRUG which came along later)