Vipul A M
I am an active member of Ruby community. I have been consistently contributing to Ruby on Rails for a number of years and now am one of the top 30 contributors to Ruby on Rails. I also help as co-editor for the This week in Rails newsletter. Besides Ruby on Rails I have also contributed to many other notable open source projects including Sinatra, Devise and Rake. I am a seasoned speaker an have spoken at many conferences around the world including Gogaruco in San Francisco, RedDotRubyConf in Singapore, RubyConfIndia in Goa, India MadisonPlusRuby in Madison, Wisconsin, RubyConfBrazil in Suo Paulo, Brazil, and RubyConf Philippines in Manilla, Philippines. I am organizer of Deccan Ruby Conference and used to run RubyIndia Podcast. During my early days of open source as part of "Google summer of code" I contributed to the krypt-project project. Later I helped mentor in the JRuby and currently mentor in the Ruby on Rails organization for Google summer of code. When not working on Ruby, I am mostly working on Reactjs. I have authored the book Building Modern Web Applications with React.js which is published by PACKT. I have produced a number of screencasts on the topic of Learn React.js.
picture_tag helper in Rails
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We went through many ups and downs and looking forward to a brighter year aheadOn how to better understand context and communicate questions
On how to better understand context and communicate questions. Personal musings on running a companyEmployees maketh Businesses
How Saeloun runs with the help of its Employees and tries giving backIns and Outs of Profit Sharing
We are delighted to announce our Profit Sharing process for 2022 for our Rails Consultancy. Here are some highlights from the processBack to Office- The Remote Work edition
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