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+Ruby is no longer the new hotness. Everyone's all Node this and Scala that and it seems maybe our favorite eccentric adorable schizophrenic sushi-flavored language doesn't have what it takes to compete against all these angry young upstarts. But take heart! In this talk we'll tour Ruby's feature set, touch on its unique (and enterprise-ready!) superpowers, and discuss what Ruby's future may hold.
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+Alex is a coder, teacher, and a prolific contributor to a variety of open source tools and frameworks. At Pivotal Labs, he led the development of Pivotal Tracker, a popular project management application written in Ruby and JavaScript. He has coached for and coded on Agile teams at tech companies big and small. He's also a volunteer with RailsBridge and Girl Develop It and a closet video game addict. His open-source educational materials are at http://CodeLikeThis.com
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+Alex is a coder, teacher, and a prolific contributor to a variety of open source tools and frameworks. At Pivotal Labs, he led the development of Pivotal Tracker, a popular project management application written in Ruby and JavaScript. He is also regarded as one of the Bay Area's leading Extreme Programming coaches. He's also a volunteer with RailsBridge and Girl Develop It and a closet video game addict. His open-source educational materials are at http://CodeLikeThis.com
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 Alex is a hardcore coder, teacher, and a prolific contributor to a variety of open source tools and frameworks. At Pivotal Labs, he led the development of Pivotal Tracker, a popular project management application written in Ruby and JavaScript. He is also regarded as one of the Bay Area's leading Extreme Programming coaches. On top of his many software development accomplishments, he has published research papers on evolutionary computation (aka 'genetic algorithms') and implicit memory in human cognition.
 
 
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 Alex was one of the very first adopters of Java, and a jGuru who managed the EJB, Servlets, Threads, and Tomcat FAQ and Forum sections of jGuru.com.  He is the creator of Gamelan, the Official Directory of Java (http:/www.gamelan.com) where he also served as Director of Engineering.  Alex is a teacher and trainer who has designed many courses and workshops, and is a prolific contributor to a variety of open source tools and frameworks (including Tomcat, JUnit, and JDOM).  He has presented at numerous users groups and conferences, written articles for several Java magazines, and contributed to the book The Official Gamelan Java Directory. He has also published research papers on evolutionary computation (aka "genetic algorithms") and on implicit memory in human cognition. 
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 For the last two years Alex has worked with Pivotal to implement software systems using Extreme Programming at a series of clients.  Alex coaches, mentors, and codes in equal parts and with equal passion.  Always in the technical thick of things, Alex is sure to see the opportunities in any project to improve design, extract reusable components and frameworks, or make best use of the seemingly endless variety of open-source components with which he is familiar.  Alex graduated with honors from Reed University.