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  <h1>Blog Posts</h1>
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  <h1>Interviews, Talks, Etc</h1>
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    <li><span>19 Nov 2009</span> &raquo; <a href="http://rubyconf2009.confreaks.com/19-nov-2009-10-25-bert-and-ernie-scaling-your-ruby-site-with-erlang-tom-preston-werner.html">RubyConf 2009 Talk: BERT and Ernie: Scaling your Ruby site with Erlang</a></li>
    <li><span>21 Aug 2009</span> &raquo; <a href="http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7486/1.html">Linux Magazine: The GitHub Hall of Fame - Jekyll Review</a></li>
    <li><span>27 Jul 2009</span> &raquo; <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=prestonwerner-github">Yahoo Developer Talk: Git, GitHub, and Social Coding</a></li>
    <li><span>22 Jul 2009</span> &raquo; <a href="http://www.viddler.com/explore/GreggPollack/videos/25/44">Envy Labs: 5 Days of OSCON Interview</a></li>
    <li><span>30 Apr 2009</span> &raquo; <a href="http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/SFBayAreaErlangFactory2009/speakers/TomPrestonWerner">Erlang Factory 09: Mixing Erlang and Ruby with Erlectricity</a></li>
    <li><span>23 Apr 2009</span> &raquo; <a href="http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/04/0421_best_young_entrepreneurs/17.htm">BusinessWeek: Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs of 2009</a></li>
    <li><span>17 Jan 2009</span> &raquo; <a href="http://www.infoq.com/presentations/preston-werner-conceptual-algorithms">RubyFringe 2008: Conceptual Algorithms</a></li>
    <li><span>09 Oct 2008</span> &raquo; <a href="http://www.infoq.com/interviews/preston-werner-powerset-github-ruby">InfoQ: Tom Preston-Werner on Powerset, GitHub, Ruby and Erlang</a></li>
    <li><span>11 Jul 2008</span> &raquo; <a href="http://www.rubyology.com/podcasts/show/67">Rubyology 65: Powerset Stars 2 of 2</a></li>
    <li><span>05 Jul 2008</span> &raquo; <a href="http://www.rubyology.com/podcasts/show/66">Rubyology 65: Powerset Stars 1 of 2</a></li>
    <li><span>13 Jun 2008</span> &raquo; <a href="http://web20show.com/episodes/web20show-ep45-github">Web 2.0 Show: GitHub (Tom Preston-Werner &amp; Chris Wanstrath)</a></li>
    <li><span>02 Jun 2008</span> &raquo; <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/1104583">Gregg Pollack: Dave Fayram and Tom Preston-Werner at RailsConf</a></li>
    <li><span>29 May 2008</span> &raquo; <a href="http://en.oreilly.com/rails2008/public/schedule/speaker/2520">RailsConf 08: Two talks</a></li>
    <li><span>18 Oct 2007</span> &raquo; <a href="http://blog.gravatar.com/2007/10/18/automattic-gravatar/">Gravatar Blog: Automattic Acquires Gravatar</a></li>
    <li><span>16 Aug 2007</span> &raquo; <a href="http://www.blognewcomb.com/blog/2007/08/powerset_interview_with_tom_pr.html">Steve Newcomb Blog: Interview with Tom Preston-Werner</a></li>
    <li><span>26 Dec 2006</span> &raquo; <a href="http://wp-community.org/2006/12/26/episode-15-interviews-with-tom-werner-gravatar-and-jaimie-sirovich-seo-egghead/">WordPress Podcast: Interview with Tom Werner</a></li>
    <li><span>02 Apr 2005</span> &raquo; <a href="http://joshuaink2006.johnoxton.co.uk/blog/240/seven-and-a-half-questions-for-tom-werner">JoshuaInk: Seven and a half questions for Tom Werner</a></li>
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  <h1>Open Source Projects</h1>
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    <li><a href="http://github.com/mojombo/grit/">Grit:</a> Object oriented Ruby bindings for Git (used by GitHub).</li>
    <li><a href="http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/">Jekyll:</a> A simple, blog aware, static site generator (used for this site).</li>
    <li><a href="http://github.com/mojombo/primer/">Primer:</a> JavaScript based Flash-like API layered on top of Canvas</li>
    <li><a href="http://github.com/mojombo/god/">God:</a> Ruby process monitoring framework with easy extensibility</li>
    <li><a href="http://github.com/mojombo/chronic/">Chronic:</a> Ruby natural language date/time parser</li>
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