Steven Haddox
Sr. Web Developer, Black Oak Technology Group, Inc.

Steven has been a Ruby developer for about three years and a Web Developer for more than 10 years. After spending a few years in freelance and commercial web development Steven returned to the confined, but stable spaces of corporate firewalls, restrictive policies, and uninformed managers. Steven has made it a personal battle to do whatever he can to be a Ruby evangelist within his corporate environment. As an employee of Black Oak Technologies Group Steven has created RVM::FW in order to allow restricted users to still be able to utilize RVM, even if they are blocked off from the real world, and has several other open source ideas in mind to ease the life of the “corporate Rubyist.”

Recent comments

The MongoDB Metamorphosis: Thinking about Data as Documents

posted about 3 years ago:

Kyle, I didn't get to meetup with you after your talk (one disadvantage of a huge RailsConf over a much smaller RubyNation I suppose), but you absolutely nailed it. Very well done presentation by ...

Persistence Smoothie: Blending SQL and NoSQL in Rails Applications

posted about 3 years ago:

The content that was prepared was presented well. When Flip ran out of content from mis-estimating his presentation he did an awesome job of trying to live-code (more daring than I would have been...

Beyond Git Push Heroku: Battle Stories from Cloud Samurais

posted about 3 years ago:

I appreciated how open the Heroku team was about answering several questions that could have easly been viewed as their "secret sauce."

The State of Rails E-Commerce

posted about 3 years ago:

I thought this presentation was actually well done and loved that quite a bit of time was left for questions. I had expected a much more product-promotion type of session and thought the speakers ...

Building Native Mobile Apps with Rhodes

posted about 3 years ago:

This was a pretty good session at the end of the presentation, but there was way too much time invested into fairly obvious "best practices" and too much time spent on what "not" to do.