Hampton Catlin

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Hampton Catlin is an American born programmer currently based in Toronto, Ontario. He is best known for creating the Haml markup language which was debuted at RailsConf Europe 2006 in London to a positive response [1]. Also, Hampton was the recipient of the Rails Day 2006 Best Solo Project award for his work on Rails-Wishlist. Hampton speaks at many tech conferences every year, including RailsConf, MysqlConf, and O'Reilly's Emerging Technologies conference. He is known for his over-the-top speaking style and personality.

Hampton is also the inventor of the Sass language for CSS stylesheets.

Besides Haml, Hampton has also committed patches to Ruby on Rails. Most notably, he created the Hash Conditional finding syntax for ActiveRecord included in Rails 1.2.[2]

An example of the syntax:

 Developer.find(:all, :conditions => { :last_name => "Catlin" })

Also, Hampton has been involved in the development of Howdtheyvote since 2005.

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  1. ^ Heinemeier Hansson, David (2006-09). Decompressing RailsConf Europe (English). Retrieved on November 28, 2006.
  2. ^ Susser, Josh (2006-11). Rails 1.2 RC1: New in ActiveRecord (English). Retrieved on November 28, 2006.
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