Pete Forde is an acclaimed technologist, serial entrepreneur and open source community leader. Pete was an early proponent of Ruby on Rails and Ajax web techniques. In 2004 he founded Unspace Interactive as the first dedicated Rails team in the world, with over 100 clients including the United Nations, TheScore Sports Network and dozens of startups.

Pete's published articles and O'Reilly book contributions introduced or promoted ideas ranging from endless scrolling pages, live web datagrids, progressive enhancement and HTML data attributes. These concepts are now common interface patterns used by Facebook and Google, and helped to lay the groundwork for the current JavaScript MVP framework renaissance.

An avid traveler and occasional touring rock drummer, Pete is passionate about pinball and film photography.

Programmers, Ruby, Databases & Infrastructure, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Business,