Chad Fowler

I’ve decided to travel less this year. Since my job involves a lot of travel, this mostly translates into going to less conferences.So for 2010 I so far have only one conference on the agenda (other than those I’m co-organizing): R...
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My friend and fellow Rails developer John Lannon, lead developer at http://resonantvibes.com, was mugged last night while picking up dinner for his wife. He didn’t have anything on him to give to the robbers and they shot him point b...
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Today we opened the RailsConf Call For Proposals. So we soon begin the several-month process of putting together the program for RailsConf 2010 (in Baltimore!).I’m particularly excited to start the process this year, because we’ve ...
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David Chelimsky and I were chatting a couple of weeks ago about my recently acquired running hobby and he asked “Why don’t you organize a 5k race at RubyConf?”Then I said something like “heh”. Then we both thought about it so...
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Since finishing The Passionate Programmer I’ve been putting a lot of thought into how to package the advice from the book into something more structured, serial, and prescriptive.The Amazon reviews for the book are almost all glowing...
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I gave myself a little break this spring and early summer, but the pace is about to pick up again. The rest of the year is looking pretty busy. Here’s what the rest of this year looks like so far. If...
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There’s an old joke I heard in India which goes something like this:What do you call a person who speaks many languages? MultilingualWhat do you call a person who speaks two languages? BilingualWhat do you call a person who s...
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Yesterday I asked on Twitter whether anyone was successfully using is_paranoid in a Rails application, because I had confused myself into thinking it couldn’t possibly work.The problem I was having wasn’t is_paranoid’s fault, but...
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I just finished reading the inspiring The E-Myth Revisited, which like my own first book My Job Went to India suffers from an incredibly bad name.This is definitely one of the most practically useful and potentially career-changing bus...
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As a young self-taught software developer, one of the first books I remember reading was Steve McConnell’s Software Project Survival Guide: How to Be Sure Your First Important Project Isn’t Your Last. Who knows why I picked that one of...
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