About This Site
Howdy! My name is Matt Raible and I am the developer and maintainer of this site. It mainly consists of my thoughts and opinions on the technologies I use and develop with. I've had quite a ride in the last few years, serving as the Lead UI Architect for LinkedIn, enhancing Evite.com with GWT and Grails and now enjoying life as the Chief Architect of Web Development at Time Warner Cable.
I like to develop SOFEA applications using GWT/Flex with Rails/Grails/AppFuse. I'm not currently looking for work, but I am looking for good people to join my team. Please contact me if you'd to help develop the best video site on the web. If you're interested in learning more about my credentials, check out my resume.
I've written a couple of stories on this site where you can learn more about me, check them out if you're interested:
- The Cabin, Part I - Growing up in Montana
- The Cabin, Part II - A Day in the Life
- How I started Raible Designs - My life since College
- How do you become an independent consultant and get contracts?
- Going to work for Virtuas - Finding my dream job
- Tips for Happiness and Productivity at Work - How I get things done
- The LinkedIn Journey Continues - Getting hired as the Lead UI Architect
- Enhancing Evite.com with GWT and Grails - Making Evite better with SOFEA
Matt's Biography: A Montana native who grew up in a log cabin without any electricity or running water. After hiking to school a mile and a half every day (and skiing in the winter), he would arrive home to a very loving family. "The Cabin" is a beautiful and awesome place that will always be near and dear to Matt's entire family. Even without electricity, his father, Joseph, connected them to the Internet using a 300 baud modem, a Commodore 64, and a small generator. CompuServe was the name, slow was the game. Matt became inspired by the Internet in the early 1990s, and has been developing websites and web applications ever since. He graduated from the University of Denver in 1997 with degrees in Russian, International Business and Finance.
Matt currently resides in Denver, Colorado and is the proud father of Abbie and Jack. He consults as a Web Architect for Raible Designs and is always striving to find the best solutions for developing web applications. His current technologies of choice can be found within his open source AppFuse application.
Matt maintains a Java/Personal weblog and a used to post frequently on his Spring Framework-specific weblog for his Spring Live book.
Raible Designs is a Java Development and Training company that specializes in developing standards-based web applications. The current web standards we like to use are: XHTML, CSS, XML, XSL, Java SE and Java EE. The implementation technologies we prefer are: Hibernate and iBATIS for persistence, Spring for the middle-tier and JSF, Spring MVC, Struts, Tapestry or WebWork for the web tier. Since these technologies have a large community of developers, an application developed by us will be easy to maintain and support. AppFuse is an open-source application we contribute to that showcases all of these technologies.
Please contact us to further discuss your development or training needs.
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This site includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation.
This site is primarily powered by Apache Roller, which means at the very least, I'm eating my own dogfood. Roller is powered by these Open Source software products:
Hosted by KGBInternet.com using Apache as a front-end, Tomcat 6.0.x as a backend, and I get my own JVM. Uses JDK 6.0 and gets about lots of hits per month.
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