[nimajneb]

Current Ruby Forum Leaders

xclite said:

xclite

I'm Brian. I am a graduate of Virginia Tech and work as a programmer analyst for a contracting company (mostly Java).

I started programming in 9th grade of high school, starting with BASIC, then Pascal, and finally Java. I've played with a lot of languages, but I'm most familiar with Java and Ruby.

I don't honestly remember how I got into Ruby - I remember wanting a language that wasn't Java. I wrote a Perl script and couldn't remember what it did 5 minutes later. The comment line was longer than the program. I worked with Python for a while, and although it gets things done, I often find myself hacking around the "one obvious way to do things." Ruby lets me get things done, it's highly readable, and it has never gotten in my way.

Besides programming, I enjoy the hell out of video games, running, and lifting weights.

I've been called a beer snob on occasion.

Skaggles said:

Skaggles

Hey, I'm Andre and I've been developing with Ruby for a couple years now. I'm currently a freelance web developer while attending school here in awesome California. Spent 5 years in the U.S. Army after high school and then spent a few years in Washington working for Microsoft... as security (I have some interesting stories). I then returned home to California, enrolled in college and have been doing nothing but studying and working on projects.

Programming is a true passion of mine and I really enjoy discussing it with others. I first got into programming when I was 10 years-old and discovered BASIC on an old DOS machine that my father gave me. He handed me an old BASIC book and I was hooked. Since then I've used ASM, C++, C#, Object-C, Python, etc. The list goes on, but there's no language that I enjoy using more than Ruby. I'm also a problem solver and, if I'm unfamiliar with a problem, I'm the kind of guy that will recreate code locally and spend time trying to figure out the solution.

You can most likely find me in the DIC IRC channel (#dreamincode on irc.efnet.org), along with other fun and interesting dic-heads. We tend to have some great (and unique) conversations when people aren't idling. Come in to the channel and say 'hello' sometime.

Past Ruby Forum Leaders

nimajneb said:

nimajneb

My name is Ben, I'm 28 year old Software Development Recruiter who recently migrated to the great northwest via Louisiana. Spent the first part of my short life as a lab optician and then decided to finish my computer science degree at Louisiana Tech University. Most of my work has been done in Java, but I also do a lot of web development on the side.

I was only recently introduced to Ruby by a friend of mine who wanted me to help him on a work project. I fell in love with the language on day one and have been using it ever since. After finding Ruby, I have started migrating my largest work related application, a medical records software client, over to a Ruby/Rails environment. It has taken some time, but it's been up and running for about 3 months now.

When I'm not working, I'm with my girlfriend playing with our dog, Brittanie, and our pig, Emma. Brittanie is a blind australian sheppard and Emma is new to the family. It's a fun time with them around.

I also brew my own beer and wine when I get bored and I love to cook.

This post has been edited by Skaggles: 12 November 2011 - 11:52 PM