Mark Gardner

A serial entrepreneur and consultant, Mark is the original co-founder of the company with Rich. With over 30 years of small and big company operational, sales and marketing experience, Mark heads up the administrative and operational side of the company. He is a U.S. Naval Academy graduate and former Marine Officer.

RailsConf 2010 Wrap-up

Posted by Mark Gardner on 21 July 2010 19:48

The fifth Rails Conference was also the first one done on the East Coast, in this case in Baltimore. With over 1,300 attendees, this was one of the larger RailsConfs and was notable for the quality of keynotes which are available online now at http://en.oreilly.com/rails2010/public/schedule/proceedings

This marked the first time InfoEther promoted itself at a booth during the exhibition portion of the event. We introduced both our Rails Appliance product (which we call "INDI") and also promoted our software development consultancy.

The graphic here is the poster we used where we did a mock-up of an original Casablanca movie poster but with our people. We had some fun with this but the point was not to stroke our egos but to associate our people, some of which are very well known in the community, with InfoEther - a relationship many in the Ruby/Rails community did not know.

You can see presentations of our people online as follows:

Glenn Vanderburg - Real Software Engineering

John Athayde - Curing DIV-ITIS with Semantic HTML, CSS and Presenters

In addition, it was announced that RubyConf 2010 will be held in New Orleans this year in November. We'll be there as well. Make sure you check it out at http://rubyconf.org/

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