Jeff Coleman On Rails

In addition to being a musican and artist, Jeff Coleman (aka Isaac Priestley) is also a web designer and developer, specializing in Ruby On Rails. 

Working in Rails since 2005, he's done a few smaller amateur projects but the World Racketeering Squad website is his largest effort to date.

Its features include:

• Allows administration by multiple users/band members
• Full-featured blog and news engines, with RSS feeds
• Blogs, news and song lyrics allow posting from any Blogger or MetaWeblogApi-enabled blogging interface (such as Windows Live Writer or Flickr's "Blog This" feature)
• Homebrewed YouTube API Ruby interface, allows integration with your YouTube videos and playlists
• Unified RSS feed containing all blogs, news entries, lyrics and videos as well as individual RSS feeds
• Mailing list manager, lets you deliver newsletters and announcements to users in specific cities, states or zip codes
• Choose the modules you want, turn off blogs, news or song lyrics if you don't need those elements
• Calendar to track public appearances or shows
• Songs manager to upload songs and make them available in inline mp3 player

Features on the way:

• Calendar integration with Google Calendars
• Categories for blogs and news
• Tagging for fans--deliver mail only to fans tagged as "journalists", or "street team", &c.
• Flash-based music player, to allow grouping of songs into albums and record number of plays

Jeff Coleman is a diligent and hardworking programmer with good test-coverage using ZenTest and Autotest. His fluencies include Rails 2.0 as well as the most common plugins, including attachment_fu and restful_authentication. He has created his own wrapper for Google's YouTube GData API to allow easy interaction with YouTube videos and playlists.