Eleanor McHugh
Eleanor McHugh has a passion for the esoteric corners of programming stretching back to her misspent teenage years. During the course of her career she’s worked on mission critical systems ranging from avionics to banking security and digital trust arbitration. Ellie now devotes her time to writing digital romances in Ruby, Go & Crystal, exploring the complex relationship between anonymity and trust in digital spaces.
Ellie’s the author of an extensive back catalogue of weird Ruby and Go talks on slideshare as well as the leanpub-published A Go Developer’s Notebook.
As a responsible parent she enjoys polyhedral dice, home brewing and gothic music.
Links:
http://slideshare.net/feyeleanor
http://leanpub.com/GoNotebook
Talks I've Given
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Don't Ask, Don't Tell the Virtues of Privacy by Design
Featuring Eleanor McHugh
You live in a world of poorly protected persistent data silos, the digital equivalent of a rusty tin box tied up with string and buried in a somewhat disheveled flowerbed. The owners of these silos hoard a bewildering array of personal data on everyone who interacts with them on the off chance...
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DISTRIBUTED LEDGERS: ANONYMITY AND IMMUTABILITY AT SCALE
Featuring Eleanor McHugh
Distributed ledgers are high-integrity journals built atop peer-to-peer networks for recording transactions between participants. Their appeal lies in the ability of participants to track every transaction in which they’re involved but at the same time the public nature of these journals proves a...
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TabNav plugin & Panel discussion on REST in the Rails 1.2 World
Featuring Paolo Donà and Eleanor McHugh
Catch LRUG's panel discussion of April 2007, on REST in the Rails 1.2 World, led by Jonathan Leighton and joined by Martin Sadler, Richard Livsey and Eleanor McHugh.
First Paolo talked about Tabnav. Tabnav lets you easily implement tabbed navigations. It supports boxed/unboxed navigations,...
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Where's my SQL? Platform-independent database design using Migrations
Featuring Eleanor McHugh
Eleanor McHugh demonstrated how simple it is to setup a test environment using SQLite and then design, implement and test a fairly complex relational database using Migrations and Models.
