Position

Fellow

Background Information

Michael has been with Intridea since 2007 and works to build Intridea’s portfolio of products. With many years of experience working as both a designer and a developer, Michael specializes in helping to bridge the gap between the back-end development and the front-end design of a project.

Michael is a prolific member of the Ruby on Rails community, having released popular open source libraries such as OmniAuth and spoken at conferences including RailsConf and RubyConf.

Biography

• Intridea Insider: Michael Bleigh

Published Posts

• Lessons Learned: Natively Compiling Tidy HTML for Heroku (May 2, 2012)
• Polishing Rubies (Part 4): Writing Library Code (March 29, 2012)
• Polishing Rubies (Part 3): Tools for Testing (March 23, 2012)
• Polishing Rubies (Part 2): Creating A Gem (March 15, 2012)
• Polishing Rubies: A Guide to Ruby Open Source Development (Part 1) (March 8, 2012)
• Imbue: A Module Configuration Pattern for Ruby (February 21, 2012)
• Using Anonymous Classes and Modules in Ruby (February 13, 2012)
• DynamoDB for Ruby Developers (January 30, 2012)
• We Stand With The Internet (January 17, 2012)
• Announcing OmniAuth BrowserID (December 21, 2011)
• Implementing DRY Magic Methods in Ruby (November 16, 2011)
• OmniAuth 1.0: Auth for All (November 2, 2011)
• Hire a Guard for Your Project (August 25, 2011)
• Sketch.js: HTML5 Canvas Sketchpads for Whyday (August 22, 2011)
• What's Wrong With Patents? It's Obvious. (August 18, 2011)
• Ruby Thankful (August 15, 2011)
• 10 Tips For Open Source Citizens (August 11, 2011)
• Setting Up a Ruby Development Machine From Scratch With OS X Lion (July 26, 2011)
• What if Rails Isn't For Beginners Anymore? (June 16, 2011)
• Conversations: The Controller Setter Pattern (June 7, 2011)
• RailsConf To Go: OmniAuth from the Ground Up (May 31, 2011)
• I Heart SASS, But HAML, I'm Just Not That In To You (May 4, 2011)
• You Should Be An Open Source Developer (April 28, 2011)
• Why Open Source Company Culture is Important (April 22, 2011)
• Easy IP Geotargeting with Geokit and MongoMapper (April 6, 2011)
• RailsWizard Reimagined (March 21, 2011)
• Always Be Releasing (March 16, 2011)
• Announcing SparkBin - Private Beta (February 22, 2011)
• Use lambdas for Rails 3 Route Constraints (February 21, 2011)
• Fun With jQuery Deferred (February 8, 2011)
• Easy Rails Admin Login with Google Apps and OmniAuth (January 31, 2011)
• Is Copyleft Really Right for Open Source? (December 7, 2010)
• OmniAuth: Flexible, Unassuming Multi-Provider Authentication for Rack (October 4, 2010)
• A Web Developer Goes Native (with Android) (September 13, 2010)
• Using NPM with Heroku Node.js (August 24, 2010)
• Talkin' About Upgrading to Rails 3 (July 26, 2010)
• A To-Go Plate of Ruby Midwest (July 19, 2010)
• On Android and Custom UIs (June 22, 2010)
• MultiJSON: The swappable JSON handler (June 14, 2010)
• AuthButtons: Free and Open-Source Web Logo Icons (June 1, 2010)
• REST isn't what you think it is, and that's OK (April 29, 2010)
• The Future's Pretty Cool, or Why I Love Ruby (April 28, 2010)
• Facebook is the Private Beta of the Semantic Web (April 23, 2010)
• OAuth2 Gem: Just in Time For Facebook's Graph (April 22, 2010)
• Rack Middleware and Rack Applications: What's the Difference? (April 20, 2010)
• Ruby Quick Tip: Instant Utility Modules (April 19, 2010)
• Toggle CSS3 Bookmarklet (April 12, 2010)
• Persistence Smoothie: Blending NoSQL and SQL at Confoo (March 30, 2010)
• Ruby Quick Tip: Regular Expressions in Case Statements (March 29, 2010)
• Hashie Gains a Chainable Hash (March 5, 2010)
• Skeet: A Twitter Client for Chrome (March 1, 2010)
• Redfinger: A Ruby WebFinger Gem (February 12, 2010)
• Simple Mustache JSON Serialization (January 21, 2010)
• Hashie: The Hash Toolkit (November 12, 2009)
• Quick Tip: Readable Conditional Validations in Rails (November 3, 2009)
• Presently Adds SharePoint Integration (October 29, 2009)
• TweetStream: Ruby Access to the Twitter Streaming API (September 22, 2009)
• CouchDB-Lucene, CouchDBX, and CouchRest (September 21, 2009)
• Good Idea, Bad Idea: Thingivore's Rails Rumble Post-Mortem (August 24, 2009)
• Quick Tip: Railsy Array Checks in jQuery (June 19, 2009)
• Present.ly Wins WebWare 100 Editors' Choice Award! (May 19, 2009)
• Make it so with RSpec Macros (May 15, 2009)
• RailsConf 2009: Twitter on Rails (May 8, 2009)
• TwitterAuth Supports 'Sign in with Twitter' (April 17, 2009)
• Present.ly Adds LDAP Authentication (April 9, 2009)
• Rails Template: Create a Twitter Application in Seconds (April 3, 2009)
• Present.ly is a WebWare 100 Finalist! (March 31, 2009)
• Using Git Submodules for Shared Rails Components (March 25, 2009)
• TwitterAuth: For Near-Instant Twitter Apps (March 23, 2009)
• Quick Tip: URL Validation in Rails (February 18, 2009)
• Utilize Canonical URLs in Your Rails Applications (February 13, 2009)
• It's No Joke: Real Time Search is a BIG DEAL (February 9, 2009)
• SASS: The Better, More Powerful CSS (February 4, 2009)
• The Case For Web Applications (February 2, 2009)
• HasAvatar: Defining an Application Vocabulary (January 29, 2009)
• Twitter Search Plus: Find Replies Inline with Twitter Search (January 22, 2009)
• Sort Your Files By Date (December 4, 2008)
• The Importance of External Downtime Resources (November 28, 2008)
• 48 hours, 12 developers, 3 applications - Intridea at the Rails Rumble (October 20, 2008)
• Hacking the Mid-End (Great Lakes Ruby Bash Edition) (October 11, 2008)
• Present.ly Launches (September 16, 2008)
• Congratulations, Yammer, But Get Ready To Rumble! (September 11, 2008)
• RailsConf Europe 2008: Hacking the Mid-End (September 3, 2008)
• Colorist: Color Manipulation For WebHeads (August 18, 2008)
• Fetches: Bringing Your ActionController its Slippers (July 28, 2008)
• Using HTTP Status Codes for Rails AJAX Error Handling (July 23, 2008)
• UberKit Update: UberForms To Ease Form Building (July 14, 2008)
• UberKit: Building A Rails UI Swiss-Army Knife (July 7, 2008)
• What the World Needs Now is CSS3 (July 2, 2008)
• Tracking Your Brand With Summize (June 27, 2008)
• Using RSpec and Autotest While Writing Rails Plugins (June 25, 2008)
• SubdomainFu: A New Way To Tame The Subdomain (June 23, 2008)
• GemPlugins: A Brief Introduction to the Future of Rails Plugins (June 11, 2008)
• Acts As Taggable On Grows Up (June 9, 2008)
• Acts As Community: The Social Network for Rubyists (April 30, 2008)
• From Param: How URL-Based Fetching Ought to Be (April 28, 2008)
• Seed Fu: Simple Seed Data for Rails (April 19, 2008)
• Mash - Mocking Hash for total poser objects (April 12, 2008)
• Google App Engine: Rise of the Hobbyist? (April 9, 2008)
• Ruby-GitHub: Simple Access to the GitHub API (April 1, 2008)
• GitHub-Unfuddle Bridge: A Reese's Moment (March 24, 2008)
• The Importance of Aesthetics (March 13, 2008)
• Acts as Readable - Drop-in 'mark as read' functionality (February 29, 2008)
• Codebite: Generic "New Today" for Rails Records (February 25, 2008)
• ActiveRecord::Base.create_or_update on Steroids (February 19, 2008)
• Needy Controllers - DRYing Stylesheets, Scripts, and Fetching (January 11, 2008)
• When You Absolutely Have To: Rails Development in Windows (January 8, 2008)
• Announcing 'Princely' - Rails Prince XML PDF Wrapper (December 20, 2007)
• Faking 'onpaste' in Firefox (December 16, 2007)
• Announcing 'Browserized Styles' (December 9, 2007)
• Announcing 'acts_as_taggable_on' (December 4, 2007)
• Use 'link_to_remote' unobtrusively (November 21, 2007)
• DRYing markup using block-accepting helpers (October 19, 2007)
• Custom Paths in attachment_fu (September 5, 2007)
• Setting up a virtualized Rails development environment (August 31, 2007)

Michael Bleigh's personal websites

• Twitter: mbleigh
• Blog: http://www.mbleigh.com/