I'm Adam Hawkins

I'm a freelance web developer. I work primarily on Ruby on Rails and Ember.js projects. I write a lot of open source code you can find on github. I enjoy speaking at local meetup groups and conferences. I travel, listen to music, and enjoy working on cars in my free time.

I'm the author of the most popular and indepth resources on caching in rails applications. I offer consultanting services for people who need faster apps. I'm also writing the comprehensive book on this subject.

Popular Works

Blog

2013-06-17 - Straight Tmuxin' Homie & Leaving Google
2013-06-17 - DS.Fixture Adapter Considered Harmful
2013-06-14 - Caching Object Graphs with ActiveModel::Serializers
2013-06-07 - Date Picker in Ember
2013-06-01 - Error Handling in Sinatra APIs
2013-05-31 - Authentication With Ember Apps
2013-05-28 - Ember Data Is Pre-Alpha Software
2013-05-22 - The Art & Science of Integration Testing Ember Applications
2013-05-22 - Javascript Application Build Tools
2013-03-29 - Master/Detail Views with Ember.js
2012-10-31 - The New Iridium: Architecture Notes
2012-07-20 - Parameter Authorization in Rails API's
2012-07-14 - Rack from the Beginning
2012-07-11 - Advanced Caching in Rails: Revised
2012-07-10 - What JavaScript Needs
2012-07-02 - Ember Ecosystem Wishlist for Ambitious Web Applications
2012-03-30 - Defining Gems, Plugins, Railties, and Engines
2012-03-28 - State of Writing API Servers with Rails
2012-03-26 - Deploy Scripts for Git & Heroku Applications
2012-03-05 - Generating URLs Whenever & Wherever You Want
2012-02-20 - Introducing FrontendServer
2012-01-16 - Rails 3.2, Heroku, & rails_log_stdout
2012-01-14 - Generating Routes for API Documentation
2011-12-04 - Moving on from Rails: Part 2
2011-11-26 - Moving on from Rails
2011-11-21 - Reviewing Rails 3 in Action
2011-10-28 - Dear God?! What is this Bug?
2011-10-19 - Handling Legacy APIs
2011-06-10 - Present Yourself - Presenters in Rails
2011-05-06 - Advanced Caching in Rails
2011-04-24 - Learning Rails: A Glossary
2011-04-04 - Sproutcore Login Tutorial
2011-02-20 - The Ruby Gem Challenge
2011-02-11 - Why I Love Volume 1: Sprockets
2011-02-02 - Ubuntu, Jetty, Solr & MultiCore
2010-12-02 - Cucumber's env.rb & Dry Run Problems
2010-10-31 - Lessons From a Startup
2010-10-09 - app/observers -- Where They Should Be

Speaking

2013 - HH.js - Hamburg, DE - (Video)
2013 - Wroc_love.rb - Wroclaw, PL -(Video)
2013 - RubyConf - Melbourne, AU - (Video)
2012 - HH.js - Hamburg, DE - (Video)
2012 - Hamburg on Ruby - Hamburg, DE
2012 - Frozen Rails - Helsinki, FI
2012 - Reject.js - Berlin, DE - (Video)
2012 - HH.js - Hamburg, DE
2012 - Paris Ember Meetup - Paris, FR
2012 - Helsinki.js - Helsinki, FI
2012 - CGN.js - Cologne, DE