Shawn Biddle

Just a dude from Western New York, a developer for roughly the past 17 years. Organizer of the BuffaloPHP User Group and co-founder of BuffaloLab. I mainly talk/present/rant about Vim.

Where to find me

Developer-related

Youtube / sabiddle - Videos of training sessions and tutorials I've done
Github / shawncplus
Twitter / @sabiddle

Other stuff

Last.fm / shawncplus - Look at the music I listen to for whatever reason

Stuff I've Made

Ranvier - nodejs MUD game engine
Weekly Rotation - The book club for music
phpcomplete.vim - Improved PHP omnicompletion
markdown-talk - Pretty quick-and-dirty presentations sourced from a markdown file. In action here http://shawnbiddle.com/bash/
lzHilight - Command-line syntax highlighter
Skittles Berry , Skittles Dark - Vim colorschemes
tocterm {Vim | Github}

Talks

Slides from talks I've given at various events.

2014 : Breaking Into Your Shell @ Buffalo BarCamp 2014
- Using BASH in much the same way an idiot doesn't
- Accompanying Youtube video
2013 : Herding Cats: Lessons Learned Organizing User Groups @ Ignite Buffalo
- How to start / best practices in running user groups
2013 : Diving Into Open Source @ Buffalo BarCamp 2013
- Getting started in open source
2012 : How Not to Suck at Your Future Job @ UB Hackathon
- Modified version of my Barcamp talk targeted towards SUNY Buffalo students.
2012 : Know Your Editor *cough*Vim*cough* @ UB Hackathon
- What you should be able to do in your editor and why Vim is awesome at doing those things.
2012 : Why You're Slow and Still Horrible at Your Job @ Buffalo BarCamp 2012
- Essentially the same as the above talk to a different audience
2011 : Developers, Stop Being Horrible at Your Job @ Buffalo BarCamp 2011
- An introductory talk about understanding the importance of failing and knowing when to fail.