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A New Blog at blog.russolsen.com

~1 month ago by Russ Olsen on Technology As If People Mattered.
Well I've finally went and built a new blog, which you can find over at http://blog.russolsen.com. Thanks to jroller.com for all the memories. Russ...

First Capital Area Clojure Users' Group Meeting

over 2 years ago by Russ Olsen on Technology As If People Mattered.
A couple of weeks ago we had the inargual meeeting of our new Clojure user's group, CAP-CLUG. We had better than twenty Clojurians, two presentations and...

Interview With Refactoring in Ruby Authors

over 2 years ago by Russ Olsen on Technology As If People Mattered.
Here‘s an interview that I did with Bill Wake and Kevin Rutherford, the authors of Refactoring In Ruby. Russ...

Patent It

over 2 years ago by Russ Olsen on Technology As If People Mattered.
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...

On The Relativistic Evaporative Dynamics Of Coffee Creamer

over 2 years ago by Russ Olsen on Technology As If People Mattered.
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...

Free Chapter From Design Patterns In Ruby

over 2 years ago by Russ Olsen on Technology As If People Mattered.
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...

Seven Steps To Doing A Big Project

over 2 years ago by Russ Olsen on Technology As If People Mattered.
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,...

Looking Back On RubyNation 2009

almost 3 years ago by Russ Olsen on Technology As If People Mattered.
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...

Cant remember my twitter password, but

almost 3 years ago by Russ Olsen on Technology As If People Mattered.
Sitting here at Ruby nation pair programming with Bruce Tate. Check that one off the "things to do in this lifetime" list....

Speaking At Developer Day

almost 3 years ago by Russ Olsen on Technology As If People Mattered.
Looks like I‘ve got a busy summer speaking schedule coming up, starting with Developer Day which is being held in Northern Virginia May 30, which...