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Technology As If People Matter
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Musings on Ruby, Java and how people are the most important part of software engineering.
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Interview With Refactoring in Ruby Authors
Here‘s an interview that I did with Bill Wake and Kevin Rutherford, the authors of Refactoring In Ruby. Russ...
Patent It
Here‘s another article I wrote for Art/Geek that I thought would be interesting here. You can listen to the podcast over at www.artslashgeek.com Techies and artists seem to have so little in common. We manipulate electrons and bits with ...
On The Relativistic Evaporative Dynamics Of Coffee Creamer
ON THE RELATIVISTIC EVAPORATIVE DYNAMICS OF COFFEE CREAMER By R. Olsen RUSS@RUSSOLSEN.COM Oct 31, 2009 It is known that a liquid, when left at a undisturbed constant temperature in a cylindrical container will evaporate at constant rate. Consider a...
Free Chapter From Design Patterns In Ruby
The folks over at InformIT are celebrating the 15th anniversary of the publication of the original Design Patterns books and as part of the festivities they have put up free chapters of a number of design patterns books including Design Patterns In ...
Seven Steps To Doing A Big Project
Here‘s an article I wrote for artslashgeek, about doing long projects. Although the article is more focused on doing big art or writing projects, the ideas are generally applicable to software projects, especially the open source flavor. == ...
Looking Back On RubyNation 2009
Life has been a huge blur to me lately and one of the chief reasons occurred this weekend: I was helping to organize RubyNation 2009, the Washington DC/Northern Virginia Ruby and Rails conference. Now don‘t get me wrong, my contribution to the ...
