Mike Perham

This page tracks notable events in my Ruby career.

• July 2010 – Co-founded Onehood
• June 2010 – Moved to San Francisco!
• May 2010 – Created phashion, Ruby wrapper for the pHash library.
• April 2010 – Created bayes_motel, Bayesian classification for Ruby.
• March 2010 – Created phat, the world’s first asynchronous, event-driven Rails application.
• February 2010 – Added EventMachine support to the memcache-client, cassandra and rsolr gems.
• February 2010 – Created em-resolv-replace, event-driven DNS resolution for Ruby.
• January 2010 – Spoke at Austin on Rails, “Scalable Ruby Processing with EventMachine“.
• January 2010 – Created em_postgresql, the first event-driven ActiveRecord driver for Postgresql.
• December 2009 – Created evented, my Github repository for EventMachine samples and examples.
• November 2009 – Attended RubyConf 2009, placed 15th out of 54 in the RubyConf 5k, in 24:15!
• September 2009 – Spoke at LoneStarRubyConf, Austin TX, “Checking under the Hood: A Guide to Rails Engines”
• March 2009 – Left FiveRuns, started new job as Rubyist at OneSpot
• March 2009 – memcache-client 1.6.x integrated into Rails 2.3
• February 2009 – memcache-client 1.6.x released
• December 2008 – data_fabric 1.2 – support for ActiveRecord 2.2
• November 2008 – Spoke at Raleigh.rb, Raleigh, NC, “Patterns in Distributed Computing”
• November 2008 – Spoke at RubyConf 2008, Orlando, FL, “Patterns in Distributed Computing”
• October 2008 – Spoke at Austin on Rails, Austin, TX “Patterns in Distributed Computing”
• October 2008 – Spoke at SF Ruby Meetup, San Francisco, CA “Patterns in Distributed Computing”
• September 2008 – Spoke at LoneStarRubyConf 2008, Austin TX, “How not to Build a Service”
• September 2008 – Spoke at RailsConf Europe 2008, Berlin Germany, “How not to Build a Service”
• Aug 2008 – Rails Bootup instructor on ActiveRecord.
• July 2008 – Spoke at OSCON 2008, Portland OR, “How not to Build a Service”
• July 2008 – Released data_fabric, database sharding for ActiveRecord
• April 2008 – Spoke at Austin on Rails, “ActiveRecord, DataMapper and Sequel: ORM Deathmatch!”
• March 2008 – Wrote tracknowledge
• February 2008 – Attended acts_as_conference, Orlando FL
• November 2007 – Attended RubyConf 2007, Charlotte NC
• October 2007 – Spoke at Austin on Rails, “Performance of JRuby vs MRI”
• September 2007 – Started at FiveRuns
• September 2007 – Attended LoneStarRubyConf, Austin TX
• June 2007 – Spoke at Austin on Rails, “Turbocharge Rails with ActiveScaffold”
• June 2007 – Published IBM developerworks article on ActiveScaffold, Turbocharging Rails with ActiveScaffold