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Sequel Interview with Jeremy Evans

over 3 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
With the recent release of Sequel 2.9.0, I've finally taken the time to interview Jeremy Evans, the project's maintainer. Back in Jan 2008, I interview...

Editor Interview: Talking about Open Content with O'Reilly's Mike Loukides

over 3 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
With a recent string of interviews with authors working on (open) books for O'Reilly, I wanted to see what the folks inside O'Reilly had to say about this...

New Year's Road Trip

over 3 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
In December, we heard that the Sahpeech chapter was going to hold a Fellowship with a Brotherhood ceremony in Gunnison on January 2-3. Since we had an...

Rails and Merb -- Why Merge At All?

over 3 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
In my third round of mini-interviews about the Rails and Merb merger, I've turned to James Britt (@jamesbritt). James is a long time Ruby hacker and a...

Rails and Merb -- Better Together?

over 3 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
After my quick interview with Yehuda and Kevin the other day. I wanted to post a couple more points of view. David Heinemeier Hansson (@d2h) and Jeremy...

You Got your Merb in my Rails

over 3 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
When the news about the Merb/Rails merger broke, I shot off an email to Yehuda Katz (@wycats on Twitter) to get his take on things. Here's what he hadIn...

Author Interview: Real World Haskell

over 3 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
Over the last couple of weeks, I've traded emails with Bryan O'Sullivan (@bos31337 on Twitter),Don Stewart (@donsbot on Twitter), and John Goerzen (@jgoerzen...

Author Interview: Relax with CouchDB

over 3 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
O'Reilly is at it again, getting an open content book out there to cover an emerging technology. This time it's Relax with CouchDB by Chris Anderson (...

Reading List for the Holidays

over 3 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
I'm not sure I can call the next two weeks the holidays since I'm going to be spending a great deal of time at work, but I hope to get some serious reading...

First Post: VeloSLC: Getting the Ball Rolling

over 3 years ago by pate on On Ruby.
I attended several LISA conferences back in the 90s, and was a member of SAGE for a while, but sort of slid away from the whole thing when I took a turn...