 is more of a lifestyle talk. So to me, Ruby on Hells encompasses many wonderful things. It's, you know, obviously we're here to talk about Ruby, but we also obviously like beer, and I'm gonna focus on the third thing that creates the Ruby on Hells lifestyle, and that's fresh news. So this is gonna be a bit of a motivational talk of sorts, so I think. And so my vision when I was kinda thinking how I'd give this talk and how you guys would react to it, I kind of pictured myself being Tony Robbins. Like I was gonna go out and bleach my teeth and have this really huge smile, but really what it comes down to is I'm just drunk and half a year you're gonna stare at your laptop for the whole time, that's cool, because it's a Ruby conference. So yeah, I'm here to tell a story, the story's about me, so it might be a little bit boring to some of you, but really what I'm hoping to do is inspire you guys a little bit, and to seek out the things that you're passionate about and hopefully try to combine them into something, maybe with your code and go write some cool stuff and just really enjoy what you're getting. And I also wanna leave extra time at the end of my presentation so you guys can get more of your. Okay, so what the hell are freshies? Who knows what freshies are? Yeah, okay. So freshies are outside the door right now. It's the wonderful fresh snow that's falling on a bend. And so to ski town like this, it's all about shredding our, getting some freshies. And it's approaching this slope with it's pristine snow that hasn't been touched yet and then just slashing the hell out of it and leaving some tracks behind. So that's what freshies are. And it also is the third powerful element that creates Ruben Hill. So up there you got the beer, obviously, you got the Ruby and then there's that kind of funky looking cone thing in the background. That's supposed to be my bachelor, I think. And maybe if it clears up, you're gonna see that. So I'm gonna talk about that. So really what happens when these three powers combine is I achieve my happy place. And I just enjoy beer, I do like to write code, albeit not fantastic sometimes as I think Stephen Baker's gonna talk about tomorrow. So I'll make a code. And I also like to write freshies. And so I got to give some background about this and to hopefully inspire you, I'm gonna go over my whole Facebook timeline. Back in 1999, I was graduating from the University of Washington and you had their Huskies in the crowd here. Yeah, you're in the land of ducks. It sucks, but yeah, go Huskies. I was a business major, you know, I took a lot of HR classes because that's where all the chicks were in. And I also had a job at Visio and ended up in Microsoft. And so when I was at college, here's this cool graph. My life consisted primarily of beer. I loved doing something outdoors and I was trying to chase girls. And then I graduated and then I got my first job and it was at Microsoft. And the first product I worked on was Windows Millennium Edition. Oh, you? Exactly. I also like to show this. Where that arrow's pointing is my strike price. That looks like Brian and Samantha. And I don't know if I'm the cause of the sharp downfall after that. Why possibly? I don't know. So because of that, I moved down here to Bend, Oregon in 2001. And the reason I came here, it's pretty obvious for anybody that lives outdoors. There's awesome things to do here. It's beautiful. There wasn't quite as much beer back then, but there was some good beer. And I came down here to work at Mount Bachelor's View Resort. I took around a 50% pay cut to work up there and I was the IT manager, something or another. And while I was up at Mount Bachelor, I met this guy who's actually in the crowd right now, Chris Cramer, he doesn't have quite as much hair. But yeah, when I was working up there, he slang some PHP code for me. He did these little apps for me and actually taught me some PHP. And that's when one of my budding programming career began, which was super funny. So up at Mount Bachelor, my life consisted mainly of a big portion of freshies, not so much beer and writing some code, but also doing a lot of windows administration, which was pretty boring. Over the years, I kind of climbed the corporate ladder to ski resort, which really doesn't mean much. I think my final title was Senior Director of, it was so ridiculous, I can't even remember, of like resort systems or something. And I was in line to get this baller, Chevy pickup truck and everything and that was pretty cool. But my life, I came there to get the freshies and shred the gnar, but all of a sudden all I was doing was going to bullshit meetings all day long. And because of that, I started drinking a lot more too. And the final thing that happened, there was a period at the end of my career there where I worked three months straight without a single day off. I shit you not. In a minute, that skid of a Mount Bachelor, you know that the gate system up there, I was in charge of replacing that and it was hell, it was off the project and that's what happened. So yeah, I was like, what the hell what happened to my lifestyle? And that's the last part of my life in the decade. You know, so I envisioned myself, I wanted to be this cool youth all around my snowmobile in my one piece, drinking beer, shred the gnar and that wasn't the case anymore. So after that, I kind of became this wandering person and I started to go program some more. I dabbled in something called cake PHP. Yeah. Shout out. And to earn money, I actually also turned tricks. Those are painful times. I'm sorry. And then in 2008, I went to a local meeting here of a group called Cowpoo, Central Oregon web professionals user group and that Chris Crabill. And he was like, hey, I got this company, we're at Cowpoo G5, should check it out. And so that's where Ruby entered my life. And G5 kicked ass. I mean, I was learning Ruby, which was new to me. Coming from PHP, it was just, it was mind blowing, the stuff that I could do. And Rails was super cool. And I even got to ski a little bit and it's hard to see down the corner. The group of guys that worked there was hilarious. We listened to Glee all the time. That was right when Glee came out. So we play, you know, they don't stop believing all the time. We listened to lots of journey. Had 80s themed parties. It was just pretty awesome. It was a really good time. And then this guy came to town with a lot of money, the venture capitalist. And then my life kind of changed. My job changed there. And once again, all of a sudden, as Coby kind of alluded to, I spent a lot of time on the phone with clients, which it's not really bullshit meetings, that's harsh, but it kind of was. Again, I was drinking a lot more partially because there was a keg there. I didn't shred a lot. And all of a sudden, like the program went all up to you, I was just eating this repetitive stuff over and over again, and I kind of felt like a slave to the man. And so after the second time of, you know, going back and evaluating my Facebook timeline, I started to see a pattern of things that would really get me stoked and then kind of let me down. So I was like, you know what, this time I'm gonna learn from this. And this is a really good quote and this really applies to a couple of things. It's by why, and I'll let you read it, but I'll read it out. You don't create things you can come to find by your taste rather than your ability. Your taste only narrow and exclude people so create. And really, I think people feel this a lot in their jobs. You go there, you kind of get in this rut and you just grind away and you start, you stop innovating and you stop creating. And really, you stop learning and being excited about things. So, you know, it's really tough for me and it's something that I've struggled with and I realize that I really harden new stuff and I need to keep hurting and that's a challenge for me in a job. So, you know, keep creating, keep learning and have a passion. And I for one love, you know, I love Tenderlobs, Twitter posts, I wish he was here for Ruben Ells, he was awesome last year, but I really love when he tweets about sausage. Because I've been mature and I think it's funny. And he talks about having a sausage party all the time. But I was like, dude, yeah, I want to know your sausage party. I'll try to vote for Seattle for that. Okay, so I decided, you know, I have this new knowledge in my head and what I decided to do is go back to some roots that I had that predated JV, back when I was turning tricks with Cold Fusion. I turned some other tricks with KPPHP and I wrote an e-commerce app for this place called Longboard Store. They sell Longboard skateboards and it's here in Ben-Burgin, who a little quirky company and that's where I am now, 20 hours a week. And really getting cool results. And again, this is back to creating and really learning new things. I've gotten to use new technologies, I'm using Backbone, I'm using Node. I know this isn't a JS conference, but I love that stuff. And we're seeing an average of 70% increase in sales for the prior year, which is pretty sweet. And again, I have this diffusion of all these things I'm passionate about. It's all happening and it's pretty sweet. And another thing that's happened since I've been able to free up my time and kind of my senses, I've started to go out and create some new apps and this is where the pursuit of fresh use comes in. So I went out and created this little tutorial application that essentially what it does, it goes out and scrapes the snowfall conditions at the local ski resorts and then people can sign up for alerts to be sent to them when there's new snow falls. And it's pretty sweet, you can go inside and say, hey, I want to be alerted when there's like five inches of these snow because I love that. And I also added in some voice tone. So it's like this morning, my phone rang but I was already awake because my daughter woke me up at three in the morning. And I was envisioned that the girl that's calling me, the Twilio robot, that she looks like that. And she tells me that there's fresh snow at the mountain and I'm like, sweet, I'm gonna go shred today. And it's just a fun thing. And here's, if anybody's a skier in the house, this is what the numbers are looking like right now around here. So it's pretty sweet. And I'm obviously just getting rich off of this thing. Big time. Not really. I've actually spent like $30 on my Twilio account. But, you know, what's cool about it is, is I, you know, it's all my passion is combining in one place and I'm getting back to my community a free service and it just makes me feel good and it makes me stoked. And I get people coming up to me saying, actually I had a guy come up to me at the break and he's like, hey man, I got a text message this morning. And he obviously didn't go ski, but he still felt pretty rad about it. I think. Another cool thing that's come a bit is I've created some gems before, but I actually went out and created the first gem that I was really kind of stoked about. It's called Guler. Guler's the Norse god of snow. And what this will do is you can feed in some Latin longitude and then it's gonna return back an object with some awesome data. So here's the snow floor gas for my bachelor for today. 90% chance of precipitation, two four inches, 22 degrees. Awesome. Wow, I'm gonna go through my slide deck way too fast. Who wants to ski? Yeah, give me another beer. Are you drinking? Yeah, one second. So, sum it up in the name of Anthony Robbins. Really, what I've kind of found here is to kind of chase down your passions and really be in touch with them. Keep learning, get back to your community, drink beer, and shred nara. And my name is Sydney Crawford and that was Dreaming the Fushies. Thank you. Any questions? What's NAR? NAR? Thank you. Okay, that's a great question. You know, I actually had an alternate presentation that I was gonna do. And, you know, ironically, to me, there's a lot of parallels between skiing and, you know, you know, I think there's a lot of parallels between programming and skiing. Seriously? Yeah, he said that, he said that. Anyhow, if you have some free time, there's a famous skier who's no longer with us, named Shane McConkie, and he created this game called NAR. NAR is like a skier term, like I'm gonna go shred the NAR, just go out and get some. Stringer, what's the proper skateboard? Narlik. Narlik. Narl, pop out, bro bra. Yeah, bro bra, bro bra, blah blah blah. Anyways, if you have some time, you're in a ski town, watch this NAR movie. It's an hour long, but it's hilarious. And essentially, what Shane was trying to prove here was, oh, let's go ahead, that's funny. We're not gonna stand here for an hour. But really is that people take stuff way too seriously in skiing, there's people, ironically, he died jumping off of a cliff and trying to face jump with the skis. So, what he was saying was that people take their skiing too seriously, and really, what it is, is all about just having fun. So what he did is went out to create this game. Narlik. Narlik. Exactly. Yeah, there you go. So he thought it was ridiculous. So he created this game called NAR. And essentially what it is, is, yeah, there you go. But when it's going out, and let me have a plug my screen there. You can watch it on your own accord. It's going out and skiing with your friends and doing kind of silly stuff. So I guess a similar concept would be like, you earn points for skiing that's really sick line and doing things like calling your mom on the phone while you're skiing it. So you could kind of make up your own game of NAR with your programming buddies and say, oh, I'm going to refactor this really fat method into a one-liner because it's Narlik and then you get points for it. Or you just call out and say things like, I'm the best programmer in this room. And it's just kind of silly like that. And make sure stuff. Any other questions? No? No? No? Yeah. Define work. I'm working part-time over 20 hours a week for the Longboard Store and Skateboard Store. It's a Rails app. And I'm the only guy so I do full stack. I do front-end stuff. And then I also write code on the side, my little side project. And really the thing that I enjoy most about it is, like I said, is just being able to open up myself to get all these people coming up to you saying, hey, I have this really sweet idea for an app. You know, when you make yourself available to actually sit down and talk to some people, you realize that some people actually have some okay ideas. And really also just kind of enjoying other aspects of life. So 20 hours a week-ish. Yeah, what was it like going to an 80's theme party? Which one? Should I pull up Facebook? At G5, we threw some really cool parties there. And the first 80's party, what was it called? It was called Journey into the Man Cave. And our initial office that all the engineers were working on was called the Man Cave, affectionately so, because it always kind of smelled a little funky. And so yeah, we decided to be a little more social and so we hosted Journey into the Man Cave, we played lots of Journey and other 80's music. And I think we had some really cruddy beer. And people got into it, they dressed up, girls came to the site when you tell, so it was actually pretty sweet. What was it my favorite party at G5 though? There's a lot of other people. I have a skier. What's that? What's your ski? What do I ski? I have about six different pairs of skis. AT or TEL-A? AT. Woo. I have Fritchies and Baron Dukes. What is all that stuff you just said me? LAUGHTER So you must not be from around here. AT is where you go skiing the backcountry. And what I was talking about was certain brand names of ski bindings that allow you to free your heel so you can free your mind. Are you skiing Saturday or Sunday? Uh, I ski today. Anybody that wants to go ski? Yes, I will take you out skiing. I have a stem mobile. It'll be super gnar. Yeah. Hey, it's Ben Morgan. You know, we do weird stuff around here. What? 80s party? Um, you know, I don't know if I was dressed up for that party or not. But I do. There's a guy that works at G5 that has like a closet full of costumes. If we wanted to have any sort of party right now, you could look it up. Is that still your chat? You want me to answer your question? No, it's okay. Okay. Yeah. So I noticed that on your bubble cards up there, that ladies disappeared as soon as a programming language came about. There you go. In 2001, back then, one of the things that you heard when you came to Ben was that this town was a bring-your-own-girlfriend town. So I actually imported my girlfriend from the fine state of Washington and my college sweetheart. We got married that year, and we've been married for 10 years now. So she is still a big part, but it's like, I didn't really know how to fit that in. But definitely, by choosing my current lifestyle, I was going to say something bad about lifestyle condoms. But by choosing the current lifestyle, it definitely allows me to hang out with my mic a lot more, which is pretty sweet. Yeah. Any other questions? No? All right, thanks everybody.