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Ryan Schenk

Marine Biological Laboratory
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I develop software at the MBL-WHOI (Marine Biological Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Library, trying to find the intersection between biodiversity and aging research. We find taxonomic names, and aging-related data for every species possible. It’s my job to figure out how to store, process, display, and visualize this data, which is currently done (mostly) with Rails.

When not in front of a computer, I enjoy kiteboarding, surfing, sailing, bicycle trials, mountain biking, and sewing.

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It's Not Always Sunny In the Clouds: Lessons Learned
Mike, I enjoyed your energetic and engaging presenting style
posted 6 months ago
Building a Mini-Google: High-Performance Computing in Ruby
This was very interesting, although I was hoping for a few more implementation details regarding "high-performance computing"
posted 6 months ago
In Praise of Non-Fixtured Data
A faster paced presentation would have been better
posted 6 months ago
Don't Mock Yourself Out
David, unfortunately I think you fell into the common RailsConf mistake -- spending far too long covering remedial information for the 20% unfamiliar with mocking, and then being forced to speed th...
posted 6 months ago

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