Robert Fischer Profile Agile Information Technology Leadership and Development Consulting in Twin Cities (Minnespolis/St. Paul, Minnesota)

Community Engagement

Building the Future of Development

Community engagement is one of the hallmarks for Smokejumper Consulting, because the future of business development is found in the avant garde development community. In order to stay at the cutting edge of development, and to know what new technologies and methodologies are important, a developer needs to stay in those communities. And any developer or business which takes out of the community should contribute back anything they can.

Open Source Libraries Maintained by Smokejumper Consulting

TextCipher: A Ruby library for doing text-based ciphers.
AdLib: A standard library extension for the OCaml programming language.
JConch: Java concurrency support, partially rendered moot by Spring-Batch.
Regexp::Tr: Perl run-time text transliteration library.
Text::Cipher: Perl text cipher base class.
Text::Shift: Perl text shift cipher.

Technical Community Organizations Supported by Smokejumper Consulting

MinneBar/MinneDemo: Minnesota's design and development "unConferences".
Object Technology User Group: A business-oriented IT development community.
Groovy Users of MN: A monthly meet-up of Groovy and Grails developers.
Ruby Users of MN: A monthly meet-up of Ruby and Rails developers.