Tony Hillerson

Tony Hillerson is a Software Architect for EffectiveUI.  He graduated from Ambassador University with a BA in MIS. On any given day he may be working with Flex, Java, Rails, Maven, Ant, Ruby, Rake, Capistrano, or shell scripts. Tony is one of the architects behind EffectiveUI’s Artemis project, which is a framework that allows developers to integrate Adobe AIR applications with Java. Tony has been invited to speak at  360Flex and Adobe MAX, as well as local user groups. In his free time Tony enjoys playing the bass, playing World of Warcraft, making electronic music, making beer, learning Latin, and studying philosophy. Tony lives outside Denver with his wife and son, Titus.

Tony Hillerson

Tony Hillerson is a Software Architect for EffectiveUI. He graduated from Ambassador University with a BA in MIS. On any given day, he may be working with Flex, Java, Rails, Maven, Ant, Ruby, Rake, Capistrano, or shell scripts. Tony maintains RubyAMF, a Rails plug-in that allows Flex applications to pass AMF messages to and from Rails. Tony has been a speaker at 360|Flex, Adobe MAX, and RailsConf, as well as local user groups. In his nonexistent free time, Tony enjoys playing the bass, playing World of Warcraft, making electronic music, brewing beer, learning Latin, and studying philosophy. Tony lives outside Denver, Colorado with his wife and son, Titus.

Daniel Wanja, a native of Switzerland, currently lives in Denver, Colorado. He has lived in Denver for more than six years with his wife and three children, ages 5, 3, and 5 months. Daniel is a dynamic, skilled enterprise software architect and developer with over 20 years’ experience. He has worked in the banking, insurance, and high-tech industries around the world delivering mission-critical software. Daniel is president and part owner of two Flex and Ruby on Rails consulting agencies, Nouvelles Solutions, Inc., in Denver, https://n-so.com, and ProDesign Sarl in Geneva, Switzerland, https://prodesign.ch. Daniel started the https://onrails.org blog on Ruby on Rails and related matters in 2005.

Daniel Wanja

Daniel Wanja

Daniel Wanja is a dynamic, skilled enterprise software architect and developer with over 20 years of proven success in delivering mission-critical software for the banking, insurance, and high-tech industries around the world. When Royale (the beta of Flex 1.0) came out in 2004, Daniel managed to convince the CTO of a large U.S. state fund that Rich Internet Applications would be the wave of the future and started his first enterprise Flex project. Since then, Daniel has delivered several applications using Flex for the Insurance Industry. In 2005, Daniel read the Rdoc for ActiveRecord and fell in love with Ruby on Rails. That same year, Daniel joined a small team to create a very large and successful eCommerce platform built entirely with Ruby on Rails. Of course, the first Rails project Daniel tackled was integrating Flex and Ruby On Rails. Daniel is a Certified Flex 2.0 Developer, Sun-Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE, Sun-Certified Web Component developer for J2EE, Sun-Certified Java Developer, and Certified Macromedia Flash MX Developer. Daniel moved to the U.S. in 2002 where he became proud parent of two awesome boys. He also founded Nouvelles Solutions, Inc., a then WebObjects consulting company in Denver. Nouvelles Solutions was hired for some J2EE development, ended up doing Rich Internet Applications in Flash and Flex for the next two years before moving  into the Ruby On Rails.