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Brad Ediger


Areas of Expertise:
  • Rails
  • Ruby
  • consulting
  • programming

Biography

Brad Ediger is a freelance programmer, specializing in Rails, who has used the framework since its release in 2004. He and his wife Kristen (a web designer) own Madriska Media Group, a web development firm.

Books

Advanced Rails Advanced Rails
by Brad Ediger
December 2007
$34.99 USD

Articles

Blog

Brad's blog posts are hosted at:
http://www.bradediger.com/blog/

Brad also has an O'Reilly blog.

I lead a typical, boring life

April 13 2008

~ $ history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s\n ",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn|head 285 hg 51 script/server 32 cd 17 rm 15 ls 10 rake 8 vi 8 ps 8 mate 8 cap... read more

I lead a typical, boring life

April 13 2008

~ $ history|awk '{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf "%5d\t%s\n ",a[i],i}}'|sort -rn|head 285 hg 51 script/server 32 cd 17 rm 15 ls 10 rake 8 vi 8 ps 8 mate 8 cap... read more

A Modest Syntax Proposal: RBXML

April 01 2008

Ruby is a wonderful language, but its syntax has some shortcomings. Inspired by Perl, the syntax of Ruby requires many special cases and is difficult to parse by anything but a full Ruby interpreter. We seek to fix this... read more

A Modest Syntax Proposal: RBXML

April 01 2008

Ruby is a wonderful language, but its syntax has some shortcomings. Inspired by Perl, the syntax of Ruby requires many special cases and is difficult to parse by anything but a full Ruby interpreter. We seek to fix this... read more

Dvorak

March 13 2008

Never thought it would happen, but I finally switched to the Dvorak keyboard layout. I've been wanting to switch for years, but there is never a good time for a programmer to have to re-learn how to type. It wasn't... read more

Dvorak

March 13 2008

Never thought it would happen, but I finally switched to the Dvorak keyboard layout. I've been wanting to switch for years, but there is never a good time for a programmer to have to re-learn how to type. It wasn't... read more

stealing from arc

March 05 2008

Paul Graham's Arc language has been causing a commotion in the Lisp and web application communities. One of the stand-out features of Arc is its tidy syntax for simple anonymous functions. In Arc, the increment function can be expressed... read more

stealing from arc

March 05 2008

Paul Graham's Arc language has been causing quite a commotion in the Lisp and web application communities. One of the neat features of Arc is its tidy syntax for simple anonymous functions. In Arc, the increment function can be... read more
Brad Ediger

"Advanced Rails covers quite a bit of territory, going for breadth rather than depth most of the time. Each chapter covers a classic, pivotal development concern..."
--Ben Munat, Slashdot.org