Brian Landau

Developer

Brian joined Viget after earning a master's degree in information science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studied web development, database design, and interaction design. Outside of work he enjoys board games, movies, and exploring the outdoors with his family.

Other Interests

Bowling
Cats
Food/Cooking
Outdoors
Travel
Video/Board Games

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16 Posts

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Inspired

Steve Jobs' work has been central to my life for about as long as I can remember. When I was three years old, my dad bought our family's first Macintosh. I remember being by his side as he set it up.…
Paperclip Custom Interpolations

As web developers something we often have to implement is handling file uploads. With Rails there are a number of plugins and gems for helping with this. The one I use most often is Paperclip. Out of…
jMapping 2 - Google Maps v3 API support
Benchmarking Javascript Templating Libraries
Deploying the git way
North Carolina jQuery Camp Recap
Google Maps the jQuery Plugin Way
Getting Started with Webrat, Selenium, Rails and Firefox 3
JSConf 2009 Recap: Javascript at the Edge
Pain-Free Pretty URLs in Rails
Introducing ActsAsMarkup: A Markdown, Textile, Wikitext, and RDoc Plugin for ActiveRecord
Named Scope Caching
Helper Testing Independence
Announcing the ActionButton Plugin
Testing for HTML Tags in Rails Plugins
Refresh 007: Ending Legacy Code

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Do You Really Know How That Works?

Do You Really Know How That Works?
Documentation First

As developers build new libraries and tools, they sometimes write documentation as an afterthought, or not at all. Poor or missing documentation can prevent a library from being adopted, and can also…
Ruby AST Tools