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Rob Biedenharn
Rail Setter, Agile Consulting LLC

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Working professionally with Rails since 2005. Located near Cincinnati, Ohio, and working with clients locally and in many timezones. Recent projects include

  • StylePath the shopping portal that learns your tastes
  • eSCRIP-SAFE the Global Electronic Transcript Delivery Network

I’ve been programming for over 20 years and love having used several languages that influenced Ruby including CLU.

Recent comments

HTTP's Best-Kept Secret: Caching
posted about 4 years ago:
A bit too much on the remedial of HTTP and the caching description could have been covered faster. The bits that described the behavior of request/response headers and the interaction of the gatew...
Advanced Performance Optimization of Rails Applications
posted about 4 years ago:
Wow! A lot to digest. I will definitely have to check out the slides and go over some of the suggestions in more detail over the next few weeks. Thanks!
Are You Taking Things Too Far?
posted about 4 years ago:
Koz carried it off well, but the strength of his speaking ability was important to this. The content was probably about what I expected, but perhaps a few more examples (or, I guess, areas) would h...
Rails Metal, Rack, and Sinatra
posted about 4 years ago:
Too brief and too much of an overview. I can overlook the minor syntactic problems on the slides, but it would have been nice to see a full Rack+(Sinatra/Metal/Rails) instead of just the parts in ...
Keynote
posted about 4 years ago:
I thought the format was fine and I don't know why anyone would care that that Tim hadn't _specifically_ prepared anything. My only issue was that Tim was often hard to understand because he was ju...

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