Edd Dumbill
Program Chair, O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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Edd Dumbill is a technologist, writer and programmer based in California. He is the program chair for the O’Reilly Strata and Open Source Convention Conferences.

He was the founder and creator of the Expectnation conference management system, and a co-founder of the Pharmalicensing.com online intellectual property exchange.

A veteran of open source, Edd has contributed to various projects, such as Debian and GNOME, and created the DOAP Vocabulary for describing software projects.

Edd has written four books, including O’Reilly’s “Learning Rails”. He writes regularly on Google+ and on his blog at eddology.com.

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posted over 2 years ago:
I just added the example code from the slides to the ZIP file available at the top of this page.
posted over 2 years ago:
@Brian, that's a great idea. I'll do that.
posted over 2 years ago:
@Jonathan
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@Björn

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