web developer and devourer of many coffees. writing rails since 2.0.2. hater of semicolons.

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    Grab a copy of my resume here.

  • CarrierWave SecureFile

    Gem for Ruby on Rails to encrypt and decrypt file uploads and downloads using a Blowfish cypher.

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Some of my web design work

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Recent ramblings by Doug (or at least some guy that looks a heck of a lot like him)

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  • Twitter Bootstrap Themes!

    I’m not a front end developer.  I can do CSS.  I can do some design.  But I’m better at the code.  That’s what drew me to both Zurb Foundation and Twitter Bootstrap – design frameworks that I simply don’t have to mess with to start building up a UI for a web app.  If you’re [...]

  • WP Remote – The Freer ManageWP!

    A couple weeks ago I caught some slack from the creator of ManageWP for the following tweet:

  • A Newbie’s Review Of Meteor.js

    I have an upcoming project where data needs to be exchanged between groups of customers in realtime. As primarily a Rails developer, I know that the only real way to do this is with some sort of Pub/Sub system (that are often outrageously tedious to configure), or with one of these hot new JavaScript frameworks.