Joshua Noble is a development consultant with Schematic. He's worked with various clients, employers, friends, and combinations of the three for the past 4 years using C#, Actionscript 2 and 3, ASP.NET, MSSQL Server, MySQL, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Java, XHTML/CSS, PHP, and C. He used to teach at Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and he co-authored Actionscript 3.0 Bible. He also speaks at industry conferences.

Noble's studies have included linguistics, math, formal logic, cognitive science, and poetry. He started programming by trying to build interactive installations using motion detection and image analysis, along the way teaching himself basic electronics, hardware, how to use OpenCV, Processing, some OpenGL, and some real-time rendering techniques. His current focus is in building websites and working with rapid development tools like Rails and Flex, playing with Apache and Lighttpd, drawing pictures, and thinking about how to make nice simple web sites and applications that do what they're supposed to and are nice to be around. Topics of special interest to him these days are Ruby, Linux, image analysis, AI, Erlang, parallel processing, and data visualization.