Obie Fernandez

Obie Fernandez

Hashrocket

Author of The Rails Way, the definitive reference guide for Ruby on Rails, Series Editor of the Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series and well-known member of the international Ruby community.

Sessions

4:25pm Tuesday, 05/05/2009
Blood, Sweat and Rails
General
 Location: Ballroom A
Obie Fernandez (Hashrocket)
Obie reveals secrets of survival in the Rails consultancy and contracting business, based on his real-life experience as founder and CEO of Hashrocket. Read more.
1:50pm Wednesday, 05/06/2009
Rails Entrepreneurs Panel: Starting or Running Your Own Company
Products and Services
 Location: Pavilion 1
Obie Fernandez (Hashrocket), David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals), Tobias Lütke (Shopify), Lewis Cirne (New Relic, Inc.)
Meet three CEO's who have each started a successful Rails-focused company. How did they start, what were the keys to success, what would they do differently? Whether you have started a company or are thinking about it, this will be interesting. Panel discussion and Q&A. Read more.
News and Coverage
co-presented by Ruby Central, Inc. O'Reilly
  • Engine Yard
  • Heroku
  • Sun Microsystems
  • Blue Box Group
  • New Relic

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