David Jones
I'm a software engineer from Christchurch, New Zealand but am currently living in San Francisco.
I mainly work with Ruby on Rails & iOS.
What I'm involved with:
- Partner & Technical Director at Resolve Digital, a Ruby on Rails and iOS consulting firm.
- Founded Refinery CMS, the most popular CMS for Ruby on Rails.
- Co-created Ace Rider, a 2D motorbike game for iOS.
- Co-created Sudoku Real Edition, a beautiful Sudoku game for iOS.
- Co-created Space Cow, a challenging arcade iOS game.
- Co-founded Off The Back, a daily deal website.
- Co-founded the Christchurch on Rails user group
- Co-created Refinery HQ, a fully hosted version of Refinery CMS. (decommissioned)
Flickr Photos- Twitter
- GitHub
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Tweets
- RT @gabeglick: Apparently (to no one’s surprise) that sexual assault guide @kickstarter project was funded entirely by Redditors: http://t.…
- Zibetto Espresso Bar is my top pick for coffee so far in NYC.
- Love the Manhattan High Line. http://t.co/p2YxGistoy
- The Chelsea Market is awesome. So much good food. http://t.co/sJokBomKyb
- Turtle at Central Park. http://t.co/3zzey7gQgi
- RT @mg: Chipotle becomes first US restaurant chain to label genetically modified ingredients http://t.co/wtQjSkP2ep /via @Circa
- @szechuan true friends don’t let friends use Yammer or BlackBerry smartphones.
- Times Square is the worst part of NYC so far in our trip. Dirty, full of lost tourists, shops are rubbish. Avoiding it when possible.
- Could do with tabbed mapping on iPhone right now.
- Dessert spot for tonight. Just outside Central Park. http://t.co/Qrhes8PPdm
- Top of the Rock http://t.co/ZQ9RisqtxE
- Sound advice http://t.co/gUA0udhTN8
- Hello New York. http://t.co/xYPk9t6mfB
- @wasabhi I wish it were still open :-( the expansion they’re working on is gonna be pretty sweet though. http://t.co/H8nQxADwEB
- @wasabhi @PolarBearFarm SFMOMA is closed for 2.5 years :-)
- @patrick_morrow have a great trip!
- RT @googledownunder: Introducing Google's Project Loon: Balloon-powered Internet access. http://t.co/4wouJ6rXJ5 #projectloon
- @PolarBearFarm look out for the burrito there that has fries.
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Repositories
- A non-blocking REST API example application using Grape and Goliath together with a Postgres database.12 forks / 71 watchers / Pushed Oct 21, 12
- Plugin for Refinery CMS to manage and publish podcasts to iTunes10 forks / 16 watchers / Pushed Sep 16, 12
- iOS In-App Purchase Validation - improved and modular version of Apple's VerificationController/ Pushed Aug 21, 12
- 1 watcher / Pushed May 01, 12
- Inquiries engine for Refinery CMS (extracted from the core)1 watcher / Pushed Feb 26, 12
- The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.1 watcher / Pushed Feb 25, 12
- A really straightforward open source RefineryCMS portfolio plugin written in Ruby on Rails1 watcher / Pushed Feb 09, 12
- Tokeninput is a jQuery plugin which allows your users to select multiple items from a predefined list, using autocompletion as they type to find each item. You may have seen a similar type of text entry when filling in the recipients field sending messages on facebook.2 watchers / Pushed Aug 23, 11
- Refinery CMS engine to manage copywriting, application wide or per pages with i18n.1 watcher / Pushed Jul 07, 11
- Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library used in and sponsored by Shopify. It is written by Tobias Luetke, Cody Fauser, and contributors. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways.1 fork / 2 watchers / Pushed Jan 09, 11
- This fork has the ability to rotate the barcode so you can have vertical barcodes1 fork / 1 watcher / Pushed Aug 10, 09
- This fork has support for delaying a message to send at a future date.1 fork / 2 watchers / Pushed Jul 31, 09
- Gets the current weather from the City Council and prints it out2 watchers / Pushed May 28, 09
- Automatically append new sites to your pound configuration3 watchers / Pushed Apr 07, 08
- The exceptionally handsome dashboard framework in Ruby and Coffeescript.335 forks / 4323 watchers / Pushed Jun 14, 13
- Goliath is a non-blocking Ruby web server framework163 forks / 1644 watchers / Pushed May 14, 13
- Game Center styled UI notifications47 forks / 208 watchers / Pushed May 09, 13
- Refinery CMS engine to manage copywriting, application wide or per pages with i18n.28 forks / 58 watchers / Pushed Feb 26, 13
- Gem which configures Spree 1.2+ to use RefineryCMS for authentication12 forks / 19 watchers / Pushed Feb 14, 13
- Companion code for the Heroku Dev Center Article "Building an iOS Photo-sharing and Geolocation Mobile Client and API"22 forks / 33 watchers / Pushed Nov 18, 12
- A non-blocking REST API example application using Grape and Goliath together with a Postgres database.12 forks / 70 watchers / Pushed Oct 21, 12
- PostgreSQL Full Text Search for Refinery CMS1 fork / 3 watchers / Pushed Jul 22, 12
- 1 watcher / Pushed May 01, 12
- Inquiries engine for Refinery CMS (extracted from the core)1 watcher / Pushed Feb 26, 12
- The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.1 watcher / Pushed Feb 25, 12
- A really straightforward open source RefineryCMS portfolio plugin written in Ruby on Rails1 fork / 2 watchers / Pushed Feb 09, 12
- A really straightforward open source RefineryCMS portfolio plugin written in Ruby on Rails1 watcher / Pushed Feb 09, 12
- Tokeninput is a jQuery plugin which allows your users to select multiple items from a predefined list, using autocompletion as they type to find each item. You may have seen a similar type of text entry when filling in the recipients field sending messages on facebook.2 watchers / Pushed Aug 23, 11
- A CCLayer subclass for creating scrollable pages in Cocos2d (iOS). Can be used for scrollable menus in games. NOTE: CCScrollLayer is now a part of cocos2d-iphone-extensions repo: https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-iphone-extensions/6 forks / 49 watchers / Pushed Jul 15, 11
- Refinery CMS engine to manage copywriting, application wide or per pages with i18n.1 watcher / Pushed Jul 07, 11
- Active Merchant is a simple payment abstraction library used in and sponsored by Shopify. It is written by Tobias Luetke, Cody Fauser, and contributors. The aim of the project is to feel natural to Ruby users and to abstract as many parts as possible away from the user to offer a consistent interface across all supported gateways.1 fork / 2 watchers / Pushed Jan 09, 11
