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Jacob Harris

Jacob Harris is a web developer and a frequent presence at the New York City Ruby and Rails User Group, where he originally developed this Shortcut’s topic as a presentation. Although Jake's been working with websites for a long time (he was a webmaster for one of the first 100 web servers while a student at MIT) he is a relative newcomer to the worlds of Ruby and Rails. After spending eight years at a startup in the financial sector, he now works for New York Times Digital. He also maintains a blog at http://www.nimblecode.com/.