Core Team Members

  1. Richard White (rrwhite) currently assumes the role of Project Helmsman for ActiveScaffold which means that he doesn’t actually write any code but instead simply points and grunts a lot. He also developed AjaxScaffold and is the creator of SlimTimer, a lightweight time tracking tool. In addition to writing very sexy Rails code, he also does UI & Interaction Design and refers to himself as a ‘hybrid’: the prototype for the next generation. Rich spends most of his non-CounterStriking hours on his hot new startup Underpaid Genius which he hopes will lead to the adoration of freelancers and consultants everywhere. He lives in sunny San Francisco with his dog Emma and his Lindsay, Lindsay.

  2. Lance Ivy (cainlevy) put college education on hold to become a programmer for a startup company specializing in post-secondary degree audits. He began in PHP and switched to Rails as soon as he could justify it. Lance is also employed by Underpaid Genius and has authored a few other plugins. His free time (when he manages to separate from his laptop) is divided between community theatre, massive board games, and moping around town

  3. Edwin Moss (edwin.moss) started in 3D CAD, followed by a short period with WordPerfect, and then a decade of web applications. Eventually he discovered open source, then awesome open source – Ruby on Rails. Now he consults from his home at the base of Mount Timpanogos on his MacBook on DhtmlCalendar, Rfpdf and now ActiveScaffold. His wife is sometimes happy to have him at home when she needs to run an errand – raising 7 children involves many errands!

  4. Scott Rutherford (srutherford) used to play around with very very small things at a place called CERN in Switzerland. He returned to England a few years ago to co-found / be CEO of a software company called Axomic. Three years later he left to spend some time as a consultant, finally got bored of Perl, discovered Ruby and Rails and wrote the AjaxScaffold plugin. He is currently working at a new web startup called Cominded and is also co-founder of Thats Useful, another webby thing he hopes will live up to its name.

  5. Tim Harper (timcharper) has been programming since he was 6 years old. His passion for developing for the web started in the early days of ASP, then PHP, and then got strapped to a rocket booster when he discovered the amazing framework of Rails, and the amazing language of Ruby. He now focuses entirely on Ruby on Rails, and is the author of many other rails plugins. His time is divided by consulting, his family, and a real estate business he is building with some close partners. His daughter is happy to have her dad around the house, even though he’s working most all the time!

  6. Mike Gaffney (gaffo) became a programmer when he realized that you don’t typically get to build things as a mechanical engineer. Despite a foundation as a pure software engineer, he initially worked as a web 2.0 developer and designer in 2000, coding his own AJAX mechanisms and XML to JS converters (before they were ‘cool’) and hating life (for good reason). He eventually swore off of working with the web forever. In March 2007, forever came and he was introduced to Ruby on Rails via Active Scaffold. He now runs a team of RoR developers at Asynchrony Solutions and requires that anyone joining his team make a submission to open source before anything else. His blog is at Confabulus. He also wants to pimp Rdocul.us because you should always have the latest documentation!