Ron Evans
How To Jam With A Band
Some people can "sit in" with a band of people they have never even met, and play music together that sounds practiced. How do they do it? Learn a few tricks professional musicians use to appear to be much better players then they really are, and how to avoid the famous "train wrecks" that all too often derail jam sessions.
About Ron Evans:
Ron is a well-known software developer and blogger who has been very active in the Ruby community for the last 5 years. As founder of the Hybrid Group, he has been helping clients solve some of their most difficult problems, both technical and business. In 2009, Ron was a very active speaker, presenting at industry conferences such as RubyConf, FutureRuby, Ignite, 140 THE Twitter Conference, Los Angeles Ruby Conference, Conferencia Rails, and TWTRCON. He has been featured in Computerworld in the article "Rock Star Coders" (January 22, 2008) for his popular blog post "I'd Rather Be A Jazz Programmer". He has also written articles for MSNBC, BYTE Magazine, and the Direct Marketing Association, as well as being an active code contributor to many open source projects (http://github.com/deadprogrammer)
