Working With Rails

Hi! I’ve been writing internal software in Rails for this IT company called ReppertFactor as a contractor for years. Now I’m an employee there and we’re spinning off independent projects as well as providing assistance to others who need webapps.

I’ve worked with Rails for about as long as Rails has been around. I really should get around to cleaning up and releasing some of my internal libraries as gems so I can gain fame and notoriety. Some day.

Before Rails, I had an infatuation with Perl and a tolerance for PHP for about 3 or 4 years doing stuff like hacking new features into webapps companies purchased. That was kind of annoying.

I’ve been a fanboy of standards-based XHTML and CSS for roughly as long as they’ve been around and am often the go-to guy for designers who are trying to debug tricky CSS issues.

Thanks to great libraries like Prototype and jQuery I’m starting to really love JavaScript. I can’t claim ninja skills at it quite yet, but maybe soon.