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Being Dumb And Using It To Your Advantage

Presented by Matt Todd on Feb 09, 2009

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Ruby
Topics
Software Craftsmanship
Tags
OSS ,
RubyFringe
Summary
In this talk from RubyFringe, Matt Todd recommends to stop worrying and simple start implementing ideas, dumb or not.

Bio
Matt Todd is the lead web application developer for Clayton State University's technical support hub in Atlanta, GA. He has been developing with Ruby for 3 years and Rails for 2. Matt has been active in numerous open source communities, primarily involved with Halcyon, Thin, and Rack, but also or previously with Merb, CouchDB, Canvas, and PHP.

About the conference
RubyFringe is an avant-garde conference for developers that are excited about emerging Ruby projects and technologies. They're mounting a unique and eccentric gathering of the people and projects that are driving things forward in our community.

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