{"target":{"name":"Tom Bell","blog":"http://tombell.org.uk","type":"User","avatar_url":"https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/33d9a2b710a8e959b7a7b2573e07f0dc?d=https://a248.e.akamai.net/assets.github.com%2Fimages%2Fgravatars%2Fgravatar-140.png","public_repos":30,"followers":20,"bio":"# Hello, I am Tom\r\n\r\nTom works for a company in Manchester, hacking on C# and JavaScript. When he's\r\nnot working there, he's blogging, contributing and hacking on open source. You\r\nmay remember him from such projects as Hubot Factory and TrollScript.\r\n\r\nTom enjoys working with Ruby and Sinatra. He also likes to abuse Node.js and\r\nCoffeeScript for fun and profit. Tom also fancies himself as a bit of an\r\nevangelist for Git and GitHub.\r\n\r\n## Important Things\r\n\r\n### GitHub\r\nhttps://github.com/tombell\r\n\r\n### Blog\r\nhttp://tombell.org.uk\r\n\r\n### Twitter\r\nhttp://twitter.com/thetombell\r\n\r\n## Projects\r\n\r\n**Hubot Factory** Open source project - https://github.com/tombell/hubot-factory\r\n\r\nA simple Sinatra application backed by a Resque queue for building instances of\r\nHubot for people and deploying them to Heroku. It uses some hacky `system()`\r\ncalls to call out to the git, heroku and sed binaries. Eventually pushing up a\r\nHubot to Heroku and transferring the application to the user.\r\n\r\n**Hubot** Open source contributor - https://github.com/github/hubot\r\n\r\nHubot was originally a Campfire bot that GitHub used to automate everyday tasks\r\nfrom within their Campfire chat. They recently opened sourced a rewritten\r\nversion. I contributed a Twilio based adapter for Hubot allowing a user to\r\nissue commands to Hubot via SMS. I was also invited to help maintain Hubot by\r\nthe guys from GitHub.\r\n\r\n**LinkCatch** Closed source project\r\n\r\nLinkCatch was originally a .NET project however to dive deeper into Ruby I\r\ndecided to rewrite the project using Sinatra and Resque. The is currently on\r\nthe back burner due to time issues. LinkCatch allows a user to sign up and have\r\nLinkCatch monitor their Twitter stream for incoming links. LinkCatch will then\r\nscore those links based on various factors learnt from the user.\r\n\r\n**Jessica** Open source project - https://github.com/tombell/jessica\r\n\r\nJessica is a micro web framework for .NET written after becoming frustrated\r\nwith the direction the ASP.NET MVC framework was heading. Jessica was designed\r\nto be the .NET equivilent of Sinatra. Offering only the minimum required\r\nfeature set.\r\n\r\n## Skills\r\n\r\n### Languages\r\n\r\nRuby, C#, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, HTML5, CSS3\r\n\r\n### Frameworks\r\n\r\nSinatra, ASP.NET MVC, Node.js, jQuery\r\n\r\n### Databases\r\n\r\nPostgreSQL, MSSQL, MongoDB, Redis\r\n\r\n### Hosting\r\n\r\nNginx, Unicorn, IIS\r\n\r\n### Miscellaneous\r\n\r\nLinux, Windows Server, Git, Resque, Capistrano, and more. Get into a\r\nconversation with me to find out more!\r\n\r\n## Learning\r\n\r\nRight now I am slinging around CoffeeScript code running on Node.js as the\r\nCoffeeScript syntax is really clean and nice to write. Node.js is also a\r\npretty sweet framework to build on top of. I also help maintain GitHub’s\r\nrecently open sourced project Hubot.\r\n\r\nThere are quite a few events in the north-west area that I like to show up to\r\nincluding North West Ruby User Group and Barcamps. I try to give a talk at most\r\nBarcamps I attend.\r\n\r\n## Experience\r\n\r\n**MoneyPlus Group** - July 2011 until present\r\n\r\nI am working an a .NET developer currently helping to re-implement multiple\r\nlegacy systems into more manageable systems with supporting unit and\r\nintegration tests.\r\n\r\n**Manchester Confidential** - April 2011 until June 2011\r\n\r\nI worked as a Visual Basic .NET developer offering support for their legacy\r\napplication.\r\n\r\n**EKM Systems** - May 2010 until October 2010\r\n\r\nI worked a .NET developer working on a couple of internal projects including an\r\nSMS platform for their existing systems to use and for external customer to\r\nbuild on top of. I also worked on a bug and feature tracking application which\r\ncan only be described as a mash up of StackOverflow and AgileZen.\r\n","email":"tomb@tombell.org.uk","company":"","gravatar_id":"33d9a2b710a8e959b7a7b2573e07f0dc","url":"https://api.github.com/users/tombell","public_gists":6,"login":"tombell","location":"Manchester, England","html_url":"https://github.com/tombell","hireable":true,"following":7,"id":129327,"created_at":"2009-09-21T00:00:31Z"}}