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Bruce Williams is a professional software developer based out of Portland, Oregon. An early adopter of Ruby, he writes, speaks, and codes in the language for fun and profit, but as a restless language addict, spends much of his time backpacking through the wilds of other languages and paradigms.

In the rare instances when Bruce is without a computer, he finds enjoyment as an avid photographer and amateur chef.

Projects

• RTeX: Ruby -> PDFLaTeX Bridge
• Bumpspark: _why's pure Ruby PNG sparkline library, rescued from the jaws of random disappearance
• KeywordSearch: GMail-style key/value parsing
• Paginator: Generic, framework-agnostic pagination for Ruby
• Various FiveRuns Projects

Talks & Slides

• New in Ruby 1.9 (Boston.rb)
• Ruby 1.9: What's New and Why it Matters (LSRC 2008)
• Migrating to Ruby 1.9 (SOR 2008)
• Introduction to Ruby (SOR 2008, Charity Tutorial)