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Eliza Brock Software
- Ruby On Rails Web Applications
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Repositories
- An implementation of a rotating task manager in CLI form15 forks / 2 watchers / Pushed May 20, 13
- The syllabus and slides for the Spring 2013 Software Development Fundamentals course at Nashville Software School3 forks / 4 watchers / Pushed May 20, 13
- This is the in-class exercise to refactor poor iterative code to real tested code.1 fork / Pushed May 02, 13
- 26 forks / Pushed Apr 26, 13
- The syllabus and slides for the course I'm teaching at the Nashville Software School16 forks / Pushed Dec 02, 12
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- A ruby koans repo for practicing Git *and* Ruby39 forks / 4 watchers / Pushed Sep 10, 12
- Monologue is a basic blogging engine. It is a Rails mountable engine you can mount in your already existing Rails app, or a in a new one! Enjoy./ Pushed Aug 20, 12
- My Rails 3 presentation for the Nashville Ruby on Rails meetup1 watcher / Pushed Sep 24, 10
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Info
- Summary
I run my own software company, Eliza Brock Software.
I make magical things on the internet.
And I teach!
Specialties: Web Applications, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Technical InterviewsExperience- Sept 2012 - PresentInstructor / Nashville Software School
As the instructor for the Software Development with Ruby on Rails course, I am both developing the curriculum and teaching the course to full-time students (4 hours instruction/day).
- Nov 2010 - PresentOwner / Eliza Brock Software
Eliza Brock Software performs software development and other technical services.
elizabrocksoftware.com
- Apr 2010 - Feb 2011Web Developer / W Squared
I worked full time on Taigan.com, maintaining and developing a Rails-based e-commerce platform. We support the full order fulfillment lifecycle for 40+ boutiques.
- Developed exclusively with TDD and pair programming
- Implemented redesigned checkout and payment systems
- Trained onsite with Hashrocket - Aug 2009 - Mar 2010Software Developer / Metova, Inc.
- Developed a Java-based mobile payment service from the ground up
- Maintained and developed service infrastructure for mobile applications installed across 350,000 mobile devices
- Introduced and implemented multistage deployments
- Significantly improved application performance while experiencing double-digit week-over-week traffic growth. - Oct 2008 - Aug 2009Founder / Dusk Productions
- Founded firm focused on product development and consulting
- Learned a lot
- Developed Rails-based websites for clients - May 2008 - Sept 2008Software Development Engineer / Beckman Coulter
- Reimplemented and managed the continuous integration process for geographically distributed team
- Made tools for use in the development process - Oct 2004 - May 2008Teaching Assistant / Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
- Assisted in class for Database Systems, and Software Development I, II, II honors, and III
- Administered lab hours for various software development courses
- Graded assignments and assessed projects written in Java and SQL - May 2007 - Aug 2007ExtremeBlue Intern / IBM
- Worked on enhanced problem determination using application-level virtualization
- Participated in SSME and Agile development educational programs
- Delivered dozens of presentations and demos to executive level staffWhat that really means: We figured out how to detect intrusions and rollback to a different machine on the cluster that hadn't yet executed tainted instructions. We also found some novel ways to correct for bugs in compiled software from within virtualization software by using pattern matching of kernel calls
Education-
2004 - 2008Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyB.S. in Software Engineering, Computer Science
Activities: Alpha Omicron Pi, Society of Women Engineers, ACM SIGCS, IEEE CS, Charter member of Alpha Omicron Pi - Delta Xi chapter, Study Abroad at Fachhochschule Ulm (Ulm, Germany) Spring Term 2006. -
2000 - 2004Hume-Fogg
Additional Information-
Websites:
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Honors:IEEE Certified Software Development Associate (www.computer.org/portal/pages/ieeecs/education/certification/)
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Interests:herding cats, creating web applications, consulting, technology of all sorts
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Tweets
- Just scheduled the emails for the next big @RailsThemes announcement. Squee!May 02, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- @hnshah @daverodenbaugh That's the spirit!
- RT @ThirdPlaceBooks: 5 year old customer: I don't want a bookmark. Us: Its for when you stop reading. 5 year old: I'm never going to stop…
- @andrewculver I use it and I find that the screen looks great at all resolutions.
- RT @JamilSmith: Burnt out, @futurepaul took a year off of the Internet. Now back online, he finds logging off didn't solve anything: http:/…
- @inanedrivel I thought it was great. I don't mind being freakishly white ;)
- @leshill Normally I'm told my complexion is "peaches and cream". First time for "eggshell".
- My taxi driver just said I need to get more sun; "You look like egg"
- @patio11 Turns out there's still a bug group of microconf people at the back of the beach cafe.
- @jacobthurman @cameronkeng I think it's the having lawyers on staff part that does it.
- @patio11 I am! Just now making it downstairs.
- RT @lukestokes: When it comes to practical, proven, actionable advice to grow your business, it's tough to beat @MicroConf. Excellent confe…
- RT @hnshah: Watching @elizabrock in action being the drink fairy at #microconf getting people to pitch her on their action items. http://t.…
- @crixdev Sure!
- RT @JohnDCook: Getting moderately good at programming has taken about 20 years longer than I expected.
- RT @wpengine: @elizabrock Well, @ericabiz always does her homework. Everything she touches turns to profitable!
- Listening to @ericabiz's @wpengine case study. The multisite plan has convinced me that we should be using wpengine, too. #microconf
- RT @patio11: Sleep, nutrition, exercise: you might think you're exempt but if you're human your body WILL betray you if you skimp on these.…
- "For god's sake, developers, don't do your own design." - @pthompson #microconf
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Posts
- As cheesy as this is, it's so true
When someone cancels a meeting at the last minute and I find myself with an unallocated hour, I’m like
- Unveiling the Grand Plan for RailsThemes.com
- Unveiling the Grand Plan for RailsThemes.com
This weekend (and by weekend, I mean Tue-Thur) we dominated our product creation goals.
Also, I learned to use the Healing Brush tool in Photoshop.
It was a damn good weekend.
- Sponsor of Nashville Global Day of Code Retreat
Eliza Brock Software was an official sponsor of the Nashville Code Retreat (part of the Global Day of Code Retreat) this year.
It was a great event and I was happy to be a part of it.
- Speed up Heroku spin-up
This is a wee little tidbit I hadn’t noticed before-
You can tell Heroku to ignore entire directories when creating the app slug.
So, if you’re like me and have a ton of test and doc files, you can slim down your Heroku slug by adding the following in a .slugignore file in your rails root:
feature
spec
docSee also: the heroku docs for ignoring files.
- How To Determine If A Binary Is Available On Heroku
I’m adding spell-checking to a rails project. Naturally, I want to avoid writing my own spell checker, so I immediately thought of using Aspell or similar. However the app is deployed on Heroku, so I wanted to be sure that aspell was available on Heroku before I included it as a dependency.
To determine if a binary is available on heroku:
Run the Heroku console for the app you have on Heroku:
cd my-app-directoryheroku run consoleOnce the console runs, you can shell out to which to determine if a binary is present:
`which aspell`If it returns a filesystem path, the binary is present. If it returns an empty string, the binary isn’t present.
Binaries can be added to your application both through the bin directory in your application or through native extensions to a gem (see also: stack overflow discussion)
- Terminal-style Navigation in OS X Finder
When you’re in a finder window, type cmd+shift+g to get a sweet tab-completable field for navigating the file system.
I learned this yesterday from Caleb Cornman.
- Create your own brew recipes
Run:
brew create <url to tarball>Which, through pure magic, will figure out how to compile the given package and create a brew recipe for you.
It will open up in your editor of choice. Just write the file and then run:
brew install <the name of your package>And voilà, it’s installed.
I’m told it’s also very easy to fork the project and submit your formulas back to the community using this method, as well. However I haven’t had occasion to do that yet.
See also, the docs. But they don’t mention the magic or the fact that this is actually faster than downloading and compiling it yourself!
Thanks to Brian Dunn for showing me this this morning!
- Rails 3.1 Rake aborted! Don't know how to build task 'test'
elizabrock@doublewide:~/watchelizago(master+*)$ rakerake aborted! Don't know how to build task 'test'This error is a result of rake 0.9.2 assuming that the default rake task is ‘test’ and attempting to run it.
The best solution is to clear the old default rake task and create a new one.
task(:default).clear
task :default => [:spec, :cucumber]Edit: Updated based on comment
- Getting Wireshark 1.4.4 running on OS X (Snow Leopard)
- Download Wireshark 1.4.4 64-bit from: http://www.wireshark.org/download.html
- Open the dmg
- Copy Wireshark.app to your Applications folder.
- Copy the contents of Utilities folder from the Wireshark dmg to /usr/local/bin
- Open a Terminal window and type in:
cd /Library/StartupItems
sudo chown -R root:wheel ChmodBPF - Reboot your computer
- Open Wireshark
- You should see a list of network devices, and you’re good to go!
If that doesn’t work for you then it’s probably because of an issue with MIBS that may or may not have been solved (see: Wireshark Bug #3163). I didn’t have a problem with it but it was mentioned frequently amongst the blog posts I consulted when setting up Wireshark.
Sources:
Michael Gracie’s Getting Wireshark Running on OS X Snow Leopard 10.6
Embrace adequacy (and mediocrity!)
I’ve had this quote in my inbox for months now.
I heard it at a conference I went to last year (DCamp, maybe?) and I’ve been trying to keep it at the front of my thoughts as I build my business and go about my life.
You can’t be perfect at everything- so you have to do the best you can and keep moving.
- Rails Rumble 2010
Keith and I participated in Rails Rumble 2010 this year with our pyramid based diet app, naise.
It was a pretty amazing experience and the tight deadline reined in both our attention spans and the project scope. Absolutely fantastic. I can’t wait until next year’s rumble!
You can see our team profile here: http://rumbl.in/g/naise
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- Indianapolis, IN, February 20132013-02-10 - 2013-02-14
- To Grandma's House We Go2013-02-02 - 2013-02-07
- Indianapolis, IN, November 20122012-11-06 - 2012-11-08
- Ruby DCamp2012-09-26 - 2012-09-30
- MicroConf 20122012-04-29 - 2012-05-02
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ProductsEliza Brock Logo Mug - $15.95
