I'm available for some limited freelance work.
Find out moreHi, I'm Ryan Stenhouse! I'm from sunny Scotland and currently live in Tokyo. In recent years I've spoken at a number of conferences and user groups throughout the world. Here you'll find a collection of the talks I've given and some more information about them.
In addition to PCI DSS Compliance, I've also spoken about PDF documents, localisation, languauge learning and even Klingon. I'm a very active member of the Ruby community and I used to organise an annual tech conference in Scotland.
I'm available for some limited freelance work.
Find out moreAn introductory talk about PCI DSS compliance, which covers the basics of the Self Assessment Questionaire and gives general tips to help you with compliance.
This talk goes through how we learn programming languages and natural languages and how to go about learning either.
Localisation isn't just a translation problem. This talk introduces some of the cultural and design considerations you need to make.
Real people aren't Klingons, we shouldn't be scared to talk to real people to learn their language. Also launches polyglotpair.me.
An updated version of the talk which includes more concrete examples and a more sensible order.
A whirlwind tour and Q&A about Rails' Internationalisation support.
A missive about CI and how it's often incorrectly used, and an example of an ideal 'integration' scenario.
An intoduction to programming telephony with Ruby and the Twilio API.
Everything you didn't want to know about PDFs and were sane enough not to ask.
Everyday Klingon for the discening Ruby Pirate
The magical world of PDFs exposed through Ruby and the libraries available to us to manipulate them.
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