About
This is the personal site of Yehuda Katz (wycats AT gmail DOT com).
I work for Engine Yard, an expert hosting and open source development company, where my responsibilities include working on the Merb ruby web framework.
I previously worked for Procore Technologies, which produces a construction project management tool written in Ruby on Rails. It allows desktop integration with Microsoft Project and Suretrak, and is probably one of the most expansive Rails projects around. It also uses jQuery extensively, making it the largest Rails project around to integrate jQuery.
I am a committer on the jQuery project, a member of the jQuery Plugins Team, Editor of Visual jQuery Magazine, and the maintainer of Visual jQuery, the slick, easy UI for the jQuery API.
My current Open Source work includes, but is not necessarily limited to, development of the Merb, Rubinius, and DataMapper projects.
I have just completed my first book, jQuery in Action, along with my co-author Bear Bibeault. It can be purchased from Manning Publications or on Amazon.com.
Additionally, I have just completed working as a Contributing Author on Ruby in Practice, and am jumping into my second book, Merb in Action.
I’d love to meet those of you I haven’t already met. My 2008 conference schedule:
- acts_as_conference, Orlando, FL, February 8-9
- Emerging Technologies Conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 26-27 (Speaking)
- MountainWest RubyConf, Salt Lake City, UT, March 28-29 (Speaking)
- GoRuCo, New York, NY, April 26
- Dallas TechFest, Dallas, TX, May 3 (Speaking)
- RailsConf, Portland, OR, May 29-June 1 (Speaking)
- RubyFringe, Toronto, Canada, July 18-20 (Speaking)
- RubyNation, Herndon, VA, August 1-2 (Speaking)
- Ruby Hoedown, Huntsville, AL, August 8-9
- RailsConf Europe, Berlin, Germany, September 2-4 (Speaking)
- LoneStar RubyConf, Austin, TX, September 4-6 (Speaking)
- @media Ajax, London, England, September 15-16 (Speaking)
- The Ajax Experience, Boston, MA, September 29-October 1 (Speaking)
- RubyConf, Orlando, FL, November 7-8 (Speaking)
- QCon San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, November 19-21 (Speaking)
