I am looking to take on a design project that won’t interfere with my main working hours. So please don’t offer a design that would require me to work full-time on it. I’m specifically looking for part-time work here.

You can take a look at what I’ve done in the past here: http://www.danielfischer.com/my-work

If you’re interested, please contact me via e-mail: ( me ) at ( danielfischer) dot ( com )

Congrats to winners

Congratulations to: Evan Weaver, Tom Copeland, James Edward Gray II, Ilya Grigorik, Yehuda Katz, Ryan Bates.

They definitely deserved it.

Some things you said

I’d like to give a thanks to everyone who submitted my site for an award. Here are some things you guys said, with author anonymity in place¹.

I’ve fallen many times as a coder and Daniel Fischer has always been a true encouragement to me and I’m sure for other members of the community. Daniel Fischer deserves to be a Ruby Hero!

Daniel publishes some very cool postings, contributes to a few projects, and most of all, has a really amazingly well designed blog.

Writes creative and informative blog posts on ruby related programming. I’ve really learned a lot from this guy. He’s even getting published now! All while being only 18 years old - he’s definitely got a bright future ahead of him.

Daniel is an interesting character. I found him from his very inspiring blog. Not only can this guy program ruby, but he has great taste as a designer. When I found out that he was 18 I was pretty shocked… especially since I called him so many times to answer my questions and he sounded older than me, and I’m 30!

Every time i have a ruby question i stumble onto this guy’s site. Not only that, I’ve seen the sites he has done. Straight Baddassery

daniel is an amazing rail programmer. just google "los angeles geek" and see him at #1

Daniel is like the Navy Seals of the development world. You send him in when you need the best of the best to get the job done. No frills, just gorgeous code and bad-ass development.

Daniel Fischer is an extremely knowledgeable person of Ruby, and if he isn’t a hero then no one is!

Frequently offers useful advice on his blog.
Restlessly helps out fellow coders.

On his wonderful site he posts a lot of great articles on ruby and rails.

This blog rocks! Great tips and tutorials!

I’ve worked with Daniel on a number of projects, and sure knows Ruby really well!

He is ahead of the Ruby on Rails curve.

Thanks guys!

p.s It’s the last day of Railsconf and I’ll be writing up a conclusion on the events tomorrow.

1. sent to me from the guys who run the Ruby Awards. Thanks!

I’m leaving to Railsconf w/ part of the CitrusByte team at noon tomorrow. Let me know if you’re going to be there so we can meet up for a bit. On friday I will be book signing with Mike Clark for the “Advanced Rails Recipes” book, thanks to my submission!

Hope to see you there!

Oh, an easy way to find me is to look for a young, tall, guy, in a arm sling. Unfortunately I dislocated my shoulder the other day in a motorcycle accident. Anyway, I’m easier to find now, see you there!

Introduction

Woah, I am completely blown away by this right now. A co-worker¹ just told me about “gem server”. What this does is simply amazing, especially when you are traveling and don’t have internet access.

Cool…I guess? But what does it do?!

It fires up a server page on localhost:8808 and when you access it, you get a nice big index page of all locally installed gems, with the ability to view the rdoc for each one. How awesome is that? Damn awesome in my opinion.

Run it & enjoy it!

gem server

1. Mitch Hashimoto : http://mitchellhashimoto.com/

Update: Upgrade complete! Let me know if anything blows up just for reference. Thanks!