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Jacob Swanner

Jacob Swanner
Solar Death Ray Assembler, Envy Labs

Website | @jswanner

Jacob was previously trapped as a .NET developer before he was liberated by Envy Labs. These days he spends his time writing beautiful Ruby code and hacking internet telephony applications (a.k.a. Cloud Communication). When his head is not in the clouds he’s usually thinking about his next travel adventure.

Sessions

9:00am Monday, 05/16/2011
Rails for Zombies (AKA Intro to Rails - Part 1)
Tutorial
 Location: Ballroom I
Gregg Pollack (Envy Labs), Eric Allam (Envy Labs), Nathaniel Bibler (Envy Labs), Caike Souza (Envy Labs), Jacob Swanner (Envy Labs), Tyler Hunt (Envy Labs)
Do you need to start learning Ruby on Rails? In this morning tutorial the Envy Labs team will lead you through all five labs of their Rails for Zombies course. Unlike other tutorials, all you need to start coding Rails is a laptop with Wi-Fi and a modern browser. Read more.
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