Mark Bates

Mark Bates is the Director of Applications for Second Rotation, www.gazelle.com, and Lead Developer of Mack, the Ruby distributed web application framework, www.mackframework.com. He has been developing web applications of one kind or another since 1996. After having spent an ungodly amount of time programming Java, thankfully he discovered Ruby in late 2005, and life has been much nicer since. As a prominent member of the community Mark has developed various open source projects such as Configatron, Cachetastic, Genosaurus, and the Mack Framework. The Mack Framework brought Mark to the forefront of distributed programming in the Ruby community as Mack was a web framework designed from the ground up to aid in the development of distributed applications.  Mark has taught classes on both Ruby and Ruby on Rails. He has spoken at several Ruby gatherings, including 2008's RubyConf where Mark spoke about building distributed applications. Mark can found at http://www.markbates.com and http://github.com/markbates.