Ryan Walker on agile business and web software development

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  • Interesting Web Applications
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I live in Cincinnati, Ohio, and have been involved with web development since 1995. I currently serve RecruitMilitary as Chief Experience Officer.

I grew up in Youngstown, Ohio and attended University of Cincinnati.

  • Websolr on Linode —January 10, 2012
  • Recipes and Ingredients —October 13, 2011
  • Lean Startup Book Notes —October 10, 2011
  • Rails web application development process —October 09, 2011
  • CincyReHackathon —September 22, 2011
  • CincyHackathon —September 09, 2011
  • Applying Google Prediction API to GymboreeDeals —April 26, 2011
  • Google Prediction API First Looks —April 24, 2011
  • The invisible forces that shape us —April 08, 2011
  • Token input for multi-select —April 03, 2011
  • Moving Rails 3 and MongoDB app to Heroku —December 29, 2010
  • Implementing sitemap_generator —December 28, 2010
  • Making Statistical Social Validation Fast —December 27, 2010
  • Great email from Get Satisfaction —December 26, 2010
  • Upgrading to latest Nesta and deploying to Heroku —December 14, 2010
  • Sometimes you have to just know when to pull the plug —July 18, 2010
  • Acceptance Test Driven Planning —July 07, 2010
  • GapAttack Alpha Release —June 13, 2010
  • InsideSales.com Product Review —June 04, 2010
  • Rails with Bundler slow to initialize —April 27, 2010
  • Steak + Capybara + Envjs = Refreshing take on Rails integration testing —April 27, 2010
  • Manager Developer Syndrome —April 22, 2010
  • Building an app with Rails 3 and MongoDB (part 3) —April 11, 2010
  • Building an app with Rails 3 and MongoDB (part 2) —April 07, 2010
  • Building an app with Rails 3 and MongoDB (part 1) —April 06, 2010
  • Moving from monolithic legacy to modularized Ruby —March 30, 2010
  • Launching GapAttack —March 26, 2010
  • MySQL server has gone away with Sunspot and Cucumber —March 25, 2010
  • Easy canonical URLs in Apache —March 22, 2010
  • Unobtrusive code highlighting in Nesta —March 21, 2010
  • Use presenters and helpers for clean views —March 21, 2010
  • Chaos 2010 —March 16, 2010
  • My first MongoDB experience —March 15, 2010
  • Building a website with Nesta CMS —March 13, 2010
  • Stop treating salespeople like idiots —February 11, 2010
  • 5,000 tickets later: our Unfuddle story —January 17, 2010
  • pineypeakoutfitters.com —January 16, 2010
  • Town Defense Game —January 16, 2010
  • Cincinnati.rb needs a home —January 15, 2010
  • The Cucumber Rspec Cycle —December 13, 2009
  • rounded corners in web design —November 08, 2009
  • Web project process —October 27, 2009
  • Drew has gone Mac —October 14, 2009
  • Notes from Ryan Singer's "UI First" Presentation —July 07, 2009
  • Autospec running continuously on failing specs? —July 02, 2009
  • Speed up Windows —March 19, 2009
  • Micro-apps are the future —March 01, 2009
  • What is product management? —January 11, 2009
  • Products are never finished, only abandoned. —December 31, 2008
  • Transition from Devine Group to RecruitMilitary —September 03, 2008
  • 3 strikes, you're allowed the "big rewrite" —July 28, 2008
  • ASP.NET MVC —July 15, 2008
  • 99designs —July 11, 2008
  • bnet.com new user experience —July 11, 2008
  • Two keys to execution —June 22, 2008
  • Past Clients —April 22, 2008
  • Strategy Formulation —April 18, 2008
  • Eight promises to make to clients —April 16, 2008
  • The three critical business processes —April 14, 2008
  • "Beast" not corporate enough? —March 12, 2008
  • MacBook Pro —July 28, 2007
  • Ignore naysayers —August 14, 2006
  • Self-employment Myths —August 10, 2006
  • Software Development: Then and Now —July 13, 2006
  • Cost savings of agile over waterfall? —June 19, 2006
  • A step away from functional-spec-driven process —June 07, 2006
  • Death of a cowboy —June 02, 2006
  • Build a Management Team —February 16, 2006
  • WebPatterns —November 28, 2005
  • Ruby on Rails? Not for us, for now. —October 19, 2005
  • Ruby On Rails vs .NET —October 08, 2005
  • Corporate Wiki —September 30, 2005
  • What I've learned after seven years of building corporate web solutions —February 13, 2002
  • 9 Keys to Website Success —April 17, 1998

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