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Tony Stubblebine

http://twitter.com/tonystubblebine

Founder of CrowdVine Event Social Networks

Areas of Expertise:

  • social networks
  • events
  • conferences
  • web 2.0
  • ruby on rails
  • consulting
  • speaking

Biography

Tony Stubblebine is the founder and CEO of CrowdVine Event Social Networks. He's also the author of Regular Expression Pocket Reference, former Engineering Director for Odeo.com and former Engineering Lead for O'Reilly Media.

He posts regular updates to his blog, StubbleBlog and regularly releases small websites such as I Heart Quotes, the Unix fortune program re-imagined for the web, and the Twitter Quotes Bot.

Books

Regular Expression Pocket Reference Regular Expression Pocket Reference
by Tony Stubblebine
Second Edition July 2007
Print: $14.99
Ebook: $11.99

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Regular Expression Pocket Reference Regular Expression Pocket Reference
by Tony Stubblebine
August 2003
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Articles

Blog

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Tony's blog posts are hosted at:
http://www.stubbleblog.com/

Five Reasons I Love Twitter Lists

October 30 2009

The Twitter Lists feature launched for everyone today. Here’s Twitter’s announcement and a thorough tutorial from CNET. I’ve had the beta version for a week, and although it’s obvious that this feature is going to create a new class of social media whoring (list-whoring), I also find it incredibly useful. #1 Back… read more

Five Reasons I Love Twitter Lists

October 30 2009

The Twitter Lists feature launched for everyone today. Here’s Twitter’s announcement and a thorough tutorial from CNET. I’ve had the beta version for a week, and although it’s obvious that this feature is going to create a new class of social media whoring (list-whoring), I also find it incredibly useful. #1 Back… read more

The Real Lessons From Twitter

June 18 2009

In 2006, I was the director of engineering at Odeo, a podcasting startup notable for birthing a side project now known as Twitter. My major contributions were doing the statistical analysis that showed that our podcasting work hadn’t amounted to a hill of beans* and then not complaining when our… read more

The Real Lessons From Twitter

June 18 2009

In 2006, I was the director of engineering at Odeo, a podcasting startup notable for birthing a side project now known as Twitter. My major contributions were doing the statistical analysis that showed that our podcasting work hadn’t amounted to a hill of beans* and then not complaining when our… read more

Stubbleblog Goes to New York City

June 08 2009

Sarah and I are subletting a place in New York City for the summer. Sarah’s a former resident and has a built-in social life, but I’m a relative newbie and am looking to make social and nerd connections. If you read this blog and live in NYC, then we should… read more

Stubbleblog Goes to New York City

June 08 2009

Sarah and I are subletting a place in New York City for the summer. Sarah’s a former resident and has a built-in social life, but I’m a relative newbie and am looking to make social and nerd connections. If you read this blog and live in NYC, then we should… read more

Cyborg Quote-botics

April 09 2009

I want to give a quick update on @iheartquotes for the benefit of new followers. 1. As I wrote previously, iheartquotes was born a robot. Its human creator (me, @tonystubblebine) constructed him out of a database of quotes/sayings from the world of Unix fortune files, Ruby on Rails software, and the… read more

Cyborg Quote-botics

April 09 2009

I want to give a quick update on @iheartquotes for the benefit of new followers. 1. As I wrote previously, iheartquotes was born a robot. His human creator (me, @tonystubblebine) constructed him out of a database of quotes/sayings from the world of Unix fortune files, Ruby on Rails software, and the… read more

Productivity Hack: Hangup politely

March 06 2009

One of the most important things I had to learn when I started my company was how to quickly get off the phone with people who wanted to waste my time. It seems trivial, but in an effort to be polite and not burn any bridges, I was wasting a… read more

Productivity Hack: Hangup politely

March 06 2009

One of the most important things I had to learn when I started my company was how to quickly get off the phone with people who wanted to waste my time. It seems trivial, but in an effort to be polite and not burn any bridges, I was wasting a… read more

Secrets of Productivity

January 23 2009

On my work computer, I added this line to my /etc/hosts file. This works on Linux or OSX. 127.0.0.1 espn.com huffingtonpost.com talkingpointsmemo.com sfgate.com gamespot.com valleywag.com espn.go.com slashdot.org boingboing.net newmogul.com bloglines.com www.bloglines.com cnn.com www.cnn.com techcrunch.com www.techcrunch.com crunchgear.com www.crunchgear.com www.sfgate.com news.ycombinator.com www.newmogul.com Cory Doctorow has a saying for his writing students along the… read more

Secrets of Productivity

January 23 2009

On my work computer, I added this line to my /etc/hosts file. This works on Linux or OSX. 127.0.0.1 espn.com huffingtonpost.com talkingpointsmemo.com sfgate.com gamespot.com valleywag.com espn.go.com slashdot.org boingboing.net newmogul.com bloglines.com www.bloglines.com cnn.com www.cnn.com techcrunch.com www.techcrunch.com crunchgear.com www.crunchgear.com www.sfgate.com news.ycombinator.com www.newmogul.com Cory Doctorow has a saying for his writing students along the… read more

Secrets of Productivity

January 23 2009

On my work computer, I added this line to my /etc/hosts file. This works on Linux or OSX. 127.0.0.1 espn.com huffingtonpost.com talkingpointsmemo.com sfgate.com gamespot.com valleywag.com espn.go.com slashdot.org boingboing.net newmogul.com bloglines.com www.bloglines.com cnn.com www.cnn.com techcrunch.com www.techcrunch.com crunchgear.com www.crunchgear.com www.sfgate.com news.ycombinator.com www.newmogul.com Cory Doctorow has a saying for his writing students along the… read more

109 things

January 02 2009

Welcome to 2009. The new year means it’s been a little more than two years, 109 weeks actually, since I started working for myself. When I passed my first anniversary, I wrote up a post of 53 highlights from the first 53 weeks. My goals for going independent were to… read more

109 things

January 02 2009

Welcome to 2009. The new year means it’s been a little more than two years, 109 weeks actually, since I started working for myself. When I passed my first anniversary, I wrote up a post of 53 highlights from the first 53 weeks. My goals for going independent were to… read more

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Tony Stubblebine

"Regular expressions have proven so popular that they have been incorporated into most if not all major programming languages and editors, and even at least one Web server. But each one implements regular expressions in its own way — which is reason enough for programmers to appreciate the latest edition of Regular Expression Pocket Reference by Tony Stubblebine."
--Michael J. Ross, Web Developer, Slashdot.org