About Tech Me

Oct 19, 2025

I am a big fan of Ruby on Rails — have been ever since it’s first public appearance in 2005. I’m proficient with many technologies, but I keep coming back to the world of Ruby on Rails. I can’t ignore a decade of success with the framework. From creating simple Mom&Pop websites to my rapid expansion of Fortune 1000 enterprises, Ruby on Rails has been proven it’s capabilities in my hands many times over. But Rails isn’t my only mainstay. I use many Ruby gems and technologies in the start-ups I’ve established or participated.

The “Rails Way” works for me. I love the lingo. SCRUM, DRY, SRP, TDD, KISS, CI, Git, Mocking, Stubbing…one day I’ll learn what all those mean. :)

I’m am heavily involved with ActiveAdmin—the best administrative dashboard EVER! I’m available for consulting, training, and integration of ActiveAdmin.

A Few of My Favorite “Tech” Things

I get asked “What do I use to develop?”, “What are my favorite gems?”, or “Do you know how to use ____ program?” Of the 1,000+ gems installed on my computer, I finally compiled a list of my “get’r done” gems, plus some other tech I rely on. I put a trophy by some tech that I use for the win!

Agile Development and Project Management

Production and Templating Gems

Authentication and Authorization Gems

Performance, Quality, and Test Gems

Development and Console Gems

Web Stuff

Stylesheets

JavaScript

In 2015, I’m was dabbling with Angular, Backbone, Ember, Meteor, React, etc. It will be interesting to see which come out on top in this arena. Ten years later, there are even more frameworks now. Plus, in an effort to minimize runtime bugs, two approaches to strongly-typing JavaScript, Elm and TypeScript, have emerged. I can’t say I enjoy programming any of these variations, but they get the job done.

Servers, Proxies, ISPs, and Operating Systems

Databases & Caches

APIs

Seriously, you really don’t want me to list them all.

The Other Guys

My Web Development Tools

My Creative Toolbelt

Visit my repositories page to see my active contributions

‘nuf said.

About Tech Me.markdown

I'm a big fan of Ruby on Rails—have been ever since it's first public appearance in 2005. I'm proficient with many technologies, but I keep coming back to the world of Ruby on Rails. I can't ignore a decade of success with the framework. But Rails isn't my only mainstay. I use many Ruby gems and technologies in the start-ups I've established or participated.