Scott Chacon

Scott Chacon

Reactrix, Inc.

Scott is living and working in the Bay Area of California and has been doing web application development for over 10 years. He is currently employed at Reactrix Systems, using Git and Ruby to get things done.

He is the author of the Ruby/Git library, has produced a free screencast on Git and Rails, contributed to the Capistrano Git module and blogs at jointheconversation.org.

Scott is also on the Board of Directors of GlobalEyes, a not-for-profit supporting Kenyan orphans, and once ran for Congress shortly.

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Location: Portland Ballroom 252
Scott Chacon (Reactrix, Inc.)
Git is a fast, efficient and distributed source code management system. This talk will demonstrate how Git works, how to use it to manage a Rails project and demonstrate Capistrano's new Git SCM module. Read more.
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