Alex Chaffee

Teaching

Test-First Teaching - learn by doing
Ruby Notes
JavaScript Notes
RailsBridge - the more coders the better
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

Apps

Moodlog - how do you feel?
Cohuman - what are you doing?
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

Code

Wrong - the right way to assert
Erector - views in pure Ruby, no angle brackets required
Files - easy temporary files and directories
Purple Technology - Java lore
Fork me on GitHub
My Dotfiles - shell like I do

Tools

deck.rb - HTML5 presentations, written in Markdown
Rerun - relaunch your thingy after stuff changes
Whos - command-line parallelized whois, minus the spam
Pong

Sites

JesusPAC - kicking ass for the Lord
Are Bill And Emily Watching Fringe Yet? - single-serving site (reload for full effect)
Stinky Art Collective

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
Loose Lips - my Pivotal blog
alexch's almanac - my Tumblog: mostly pull quotes, occasional rants
http://twitter.com/alexch

https://plus.google.com/107397735779828096052/about

http://tumblr.com/alexch

http://github.com/alexch

http://friendfeed.com/alexch

http://linkedin.com/in/alexchaffee

http://facebook.com/daycha

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)
Obligatory LinkedIn hyperlink

Feeds

Flickr

Go to purplepix's photostream

Twitter

Google Reader

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