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More Alex:
Alex Chaffee
alex@stinky.com
Teaching
Code Like This
- centralizing my slides, lectures, and labs on Ruby, JavaScript, and more
Test-First Teaching
- learn by doing
Sarah Allen and Alex Chaffee at GoGaRuCo, Sep. 17, 2010 (30 min. video)
Talks and Notes
Test Driven
- an introduction to test-driven development
Monkey vs. Robot
- or, You Are Not An Object-Oriented Programmer
Alex Chaffee at GoGaRuCo, Sep. 18, 2011 (6 min. video)
Off the Rails
- Rack apps and Ruby web frameworks that are not on Rails
Are Agile Projects Doomed toHalf-Baked Design?
- on combining agile development and graphic/UX design
slides
audio
Ruby Notes
- covering Ruby from nil to eigenclass
Rails Notes
- some highlights of the popular Ruby webapp framework
JavaScript Notes
- some details about the language everyone loves to hate
RailsBridge
- the more coders the better
Apps and Sites
Moodlog
- how do you feel?
Cohuman
- what are you doing?
Stinky Art Collective
Purple Technology
- Java lore
Bookmarklets
New Twitter RSS Link
- creates a link to the RSS feed for the Twitter user you're looking at
Fonzie
- tells you what font the selected text is in
Tools
deck.rb
- write your slides in Markdown, present them in HTML5
Rerun
- relaunch your thingy after stuff changes
Whos
- command-line parallelized whois, minus the spam
Pong
Code
Wrong
- the right way to assert
Erector
- views in pure Ruby, no angle brackets required
Files
- easy temporary files and directories
Thready
- lets control-backslash print your threads' stack traces, like Java
Annotate Models
- I help maintain Dave Thomas' venerable rake task
My GitHub Repos
My Dotfiles
- shell like I do
Writings
Alexisms
- aphorismic emanations
Courting Demeter, on three blogs:
Purple
,
Pivotal
and
haacked
.
I live next to Dolores Park, and I'm an occasional blogger at
Dolores Park Works
and write some longer articles on my own
Undivided Affection
The Great Trash Bag Experiment
Share the Park
Good Dog Area
Loose Lips
- my Pivotal blog
alexch's almanac
- my Tumblog: mostly pull quotes, occasional rants
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http://tumblr.com/alexch
http://github.com/alexch
http://friendfeed.com/alexch
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http://flickr.com/photos/alexchaffee/
http://quora.com/Alex-Chaffee
http://pivotallabs.com/users/alex/blog
http://google.com/reader/shared/alexch
http://stinky.com/alex
http://foursquare.com/alexch
Career
Teacher and courseware author at
Blazing Cloud
and
Marakana
(2010 - present)
CTO and Co-founder at
Cohuman
(2009-2010)
Architect and Lead Developer on
Pivotal Tracker
(2006-2008)
Principal, Senior Coach, Director of Systems, and Mad Scientist at
Pivotal Labs
(2004-2008)
Teacher/Coder/Mentor at
jGuru
(1999-2001)
Founder and Principal Consultant at
Purple Technology
(1998-2004)
Creator and Dalang of
Gamelan
(1995-1998)
Director of Engineering at
EarthWeb
(1995-1998)
Student of Cognitive Psychology at
Reed College
(1989-1992)
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