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layout: page
title: "about://jdstraughan"
description: "Web Developer, Rubyist, Disc Golfer"
header-img: "img/header/MK_BUZZLIGHTYEARRIDE_7080743091.jpeg"
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<section>
  <h3>Summary</h3>
  <p>As founder of Grok Interactive, I have assembled a team of software engineers with proven talent in web development.</p>

  <p>As co-founder of Codeup.com, I am part of a team that is training the new web developers in modern technology.</p>

  <p>I have lead development teams in the social networking and Software as a Service (SaaS) spaces to successful product launches over the course of my career. I've worked on projects with clients and firms including the Wounded Warrior Project, US Army, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the San Antonio Spurs, and startups including DynastyOwner.com and Pressable.com.</p>

  <p>I am also the author of the first published book on the Kohana PHP Framework, "Beginning Kohana 3.0 Development", released in 2011 by Packt Publishing, and the co-author of the curriculum used at the Codeup.com web development bootcamp.
  </p>

  <p>I would love to discuss your next web development project. Please contact me at jasons@grok-interactive.com or 210-775-1218.</p>

  <p>When I am not sitting in front of my computer creating awesomeness, I can usually be found playing disc golf with my 7 year old son, building legos (sometimes with my 7 year old son), or goofing off with electronics, like the arduino.</p>

</section>

<section>
  <h3>Skills</h3>
  <ul class="span6">
    <li>Ruby / Ruby on Rails / Rake applications</li>
    <li>PHP including Kohana, ZendFramework, and CodeIgniter</li>
    <li>ORM/DBALs - including ActiveRecord and Doctrine 2</li>
    <li>Javascript / AJAX including jQuery and MooTools</li>
    <li>NoSQL Databases - including MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis</li>
    <li>Web Server experience with Apache and nginx</li>
  </ul>
  <ul class="span5">
    <li>MySQL and PostgreSQL for RDBMS solutions</li>
    <li>Git and SVN for source code management (SCM)</li>
    <li>Frontend markup: HTML5, XHTML, XML, etc</li>
    <li>CSS including preprocessors like SASS and LESS</li>
    <li>Search Servers - Solr, ElasticSearch and Sphinx</li>
    <li>Hosting on AWS, Rackspace, EngineYard, Heroku</li>
  </ul>

</section>

<section>
  <h3>Open Source Projects</h3>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="https://github.com/JDStraughan/nonews">nonews</a> - A Google Chrome extension that blocks news media sites.</li>
    <li><a href="https://github.com/JDStraughan/jekyll-plugins.com">jekyll-plugins [website]</a> The <a href="http://www.jekyll-plugins.com/">jekyll-plugins.com website</a> is dedicated to building a resource for jekyll plugin authors and bloggers to share creations.</li>
    <li><a href="https://github.com/JDStraughan/jekyll-plugins">jekyll-plugns [module list]</a> repository of submodules listed on jekyll-plugins.com</li>
    <li><a href="https://github.com/JDStraughan/kohana-lwrte">kohana-lwrte</a> - <a href="https://code.google.com/p/lwrte/">LWRTE</a> adapter for <a href="http://kohanaframework.org/">Kohana 3</a>.</li>

  </ul>
</section>

<section>
  <h3>Fun Stuff</h3>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="https://github.com/JDStraughan/html5-snake">HTML5 Snake</a> - HTML5 canvas remake of the classic 1970s snake game.</li>
    <li><a href="https://github.com/JDStraughan/html5-lightcycles">HTML5 lightcycles</a> - HTML5 canvas game, a very basic clone of the Tron lightcycle game.</li>
    <li><a href="https://github.com/JDStraughan/unnecessary-censorship">unnecessary-censorship</a> - A funny little Ruby gem that randomly censors strings of words.</li>
  </ul>
</section>