Biography:

Jeff Cohen has been writing about Ruby on Rails since 2005 for Softies on Rails, a resource for all newcomers to Rails and the Ruby programming language. In 2008 he started the Purple Workshops to provide friendly training classes for those switching to Rails. He has appeared on the official Ruby on Rails Podcast, is a Rails core contributor, and is co-author of the Pragmatic Bookshelf book Rails for .NET Developers. Jeff lives and works just outside of Chicago, Illinois. He's married and has two wonderful daughters. His favorite sport is hockey, his favorite comic strip is Calvin & Hobbes, and he thinks his jokes are funnier than they really are.