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Ruby Software Engineer

With over a decade of experience, Elon specializes in building enterprise web applications for both established businesses and startups. He has extensive experience with Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Java, Linux, and cloud infrastructures. If you have a project and need a freelance consultant, please feel free to contact me.

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Top Posts

Navigating Ruby Projects in VIM
September 16, 2012
Navigating Ruby and Ruby on Rails projects in VIM involves learning a number of things that aren't in the manual. This post is intended to shorten the learning curve. ruby
Xmonad in Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity 2D
June 22, 2012
I've been using xmonad in ubuntu for quite a while. The change from 11.04 to 12.04 involved the following steps. xmonad linux
Understanding Ruby Closures
July 08, 2012
While closures are usually associated with functional languages, Ruby has them in the form of blocks, procs, and lambdas. These concepts are a powerful feature that must be mastered to be successful using this language. ruby
Ruby modules, the template pattern, and dynamic closure application
August 25, 2012
Ruby: Applying closures to the context of a caller via Modules and the template design pattern. ruby

Recent Posts

NVIDIA dual monitors on an Ubuntu laptop
May 11, 2014
Setting up a modern xorg.conf with the binary NVIDIA driver to be used with xrandr. linux
Ruby Prototyping
October 01, 2013
Prototyping in Ruby is even faster with inlined test driven development. ruby
Minitest with Ruby and Ruby on Rails 4
September 28, 2013
How to set up minitest-spec for both Ruby and Ruby on Rails 4 projects while preserving vim-rails shortcuts. ruby ruby on rails
MTP and USB on the Android Nexus 4
February 17, 2013
A short script to enable USB access to an Android device using MTP. android linux