Edward Price
E-Mail:
ted.price@gmail.com
Twitter:
priceted
Biography
I graduated with a Computer Science degree from James Madison University, outside of Washington D.C. in May 2002. My course of studies were in Java as a language, and Waterfall Model as a project management methodology.
In 2002, I went to work for Deutsche Bank in New York City. I programmed in Java Struts and some .NET. After I had had enough punishment I moved to a trading platform development firm called Royalblue / Fidessa where I worked primarily in Perl.
I moved to California during the Autumn of 2005. I went to work for a small PHP shop. I had a great time with PHP. The members of this shop went on to The Valley to start Heroku(.com).
In 2006, I switched jobs to a media ad rep firm, GorillaNationMedia. I was given the golden opportunity to rebuild its legacy ad system in Ruby on Rails. I also became an agile zealot. I am a huge proponent of Scrum, Lean, and Kan Ban.
After 3 years at GNM, I moved on to a startup: MyFDB. This was a interesting move. The development experience was face paced. At the end of the day the wasn’t a sustainable market for the startup so I had to leave.
I quickly went to work for “The Man” at AT&T Interactive where I have been since October 2009.
I currently work at AT&T full time. At night and on the weekends, I program for hire on interesting projects, and I do my own startups. I have helped successfully launch LingFling and InterestMix.
As an avid traveler, in 2009, I created an Android app called Tourguyde (tourguyde.com), a location aware tour guide with text-to-speech.
I will be getting back to this app later this year when time allows :).
In January of 2010, I linked up with a business developer to join the start-up, ESlotting.
I also have various other projects that I hope to convert into sources of revenue.
In my limited time off, I prefer working out, playing basketball, drinking, acting, writing, and I hope to produce my first short film this year.
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List of talks in the future
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Essential Gems and Plugins For Startups
by Edward Price - AT&T Interactive
I will discuss the gems and plugins I use in my startups. These include gems for authenticating users, gems to help building a robust yet flexible test suite, and gems and plugins to aide general development of one's web application
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Choose your Language Wisely. That means Ruby on Rails.
by Edward Price - AT&T Interactive
I will give a short presentation on my trials and experiences moving from a Java/Struts developer to a PHP/Cake developer to a Ruby on Rails developer, where I hope to stay for a long time.
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Anfänger on Rails
by Edward Price - AT&T Interactive
In this 3 hour seminar I would like to cover the essentials that will give everyone in the room, the tools, information and knowledge needed to get started will taking a "Startup Concept" and building a "Rapid Prototype"