By the work one knows the workmen.
Jean De La Fontaine
Eric Meyer
Eric began his software career as an intern at Object Mentor, then continued at 8th Light. At Object Mentor, he was introduced to the practices of Test Driven Development and Agile Software Development and worked primarily in Java. Eric became one of 8th Light's first software apprentices and his job at 8th Light marks his first full time position as a Software Craftsman. Having his first major experience with software development come from Object Mentor and 8th Light gave Eric the chance to learn from many very talented individuals from the very beginning of his career. While working at 8th Light, Eric has developed software primarily in Ruby and has spent time working on Ruby on Rails projects, Limelight, Limelight applications and an open source project, Fresnel.Open Source
- Limelight - Ruby Rich Client GUI Framework
- Fresnel - A Limelight interface for Lighthouse Bug tracking
Conference Speaker At:
- August 2008 Eric Volunteered at Agile Development Conference
- In March of 2009 Eric gave a talk on Test Driven Development for the iPhone at SD West.
Education
Eric graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a B.S. in Computer Engineering in 2008.