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The handle: Ephekt (pronounced effect)

Having been on the Internet since the early 90s you accumulate a lot of stuff like handles (aliases). As your handle becomes more important you spend more time coming up with better ones... From SMRBios to Smasher5 to Ephekt was essentially my growth from being a hardware/bios hacker to an uber IRC user to a more generic name that just resonated well with me.

About me

I'm an entrepreneur focused in computer software. I've launched a handful of businesses starting at the ripe ol' age of 12. To better understand the science behind my companies I enrolled & graduated from the beautiful University of California at Santa Barbara with a B.S in Computer Science. My passion lies in social networks, education, and knowledge discovery.

Feel free to post any form of feedback. If you have a better solution to a problem I've solved than please let me know (otherwise how am I going to learn that my problem solving skills lack?). And, by all means, if you encounter a problem in any of the areas of my work (whether it be Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, etc...) e-mail me and I may create a post about it and we can work it out.

Technology

You will notice that I absolutely love Ruby, JavaScript, HTML and CSS. However, I'm fluent in quite a few languages (SQL, Python & PHP are what I use at work mainly). I've selected Ruby as my go-to because of syntax, expressiveness, open-sourceness, and the community of people who make it happen. Please take my bias with a grain of salt-- know that I know there is no silver bullet