Jay Godse

933 reputation

bio	website	squidoo.com/sqlitehammer
	location	Ottawa, Canada
	age	49
visits	member for	2 years, 5 months
	seen	May 9 at 5:02
stats	profile views	71

I am a software developer. My favourite tools are Ruby, Rails, SQLite, HAML, jQuery, and heroku.com.

I have a blog called Cloud Apps Experts.

I also have a Github profile.

	933 reputation	bio	website	squidoo.com/sqlitehammer	visits	member for	2 years, 5 months
29 badges		location	Ottawa, Canada		seen	May 9 at 5:02

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