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Justin Miller

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Justin Miller

Code Sorcery Workshop, LLC

Biography

Justin Miller is the founder and principal of Code Sorcery Workshop, a Portland-based company that provides solutions that live on the web using server technologies, on your Mac using desktop software, and in your pocket with the iPhone and iPad.

On the server side, Justin specializes in a “whole stack” approach — hardware provisioning to server operating system administration to web application development to performance tuning.

On the client side, Justin has been programming for the Apple Mac OS X desktop platform for over six years and with Apple’s iOS platform since its public inception in 2008.

Justin has been developing and administering internet technologies for nearly fifteen years. Following undergraduate work in Engineering and Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Justin’s professional career spanned three startups in New York State’s Tech Valley, datacenter work in New York City, and political and non-profit work in Washington before launching freelance and consulting services, eventually relocating to Portland, Oregon, where he resides currently.

Open Source Bridge 2011

Proposals for this user

* Open source, offline, custom mapping on the iPad

The MapBox team has been creating offline and mobile map browsing experiences that make it possible for users to better take advantage of geo-visualizations when working in the field. This presentation will focus specifically on the development of the MapBox iPad application, looking at the use cases that drove its development and the open source software stack that made it possible.
Cooking 02/07/2011 03:29PM
Justin Miller

Open Source Bridge 2009

Proposals for this user

* So you don't have a sysadmin yet...

Many startups underestimate the importance of a systems administrator very early on in the company's development. But maybe you're just not there yet. If you don't have a sysadmin, what is the minimum you should know to squeeze by in the meantime?
Cooking 04/10/2009 11:30PM
Justin Miller