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... And An Italian Version...

over 4 years ago by Russ Olsen on Technology As If People Mattered.
The very gratifying international career of Ruby Spin-up: Where Did That Method Come From? continues with an Italian translation. Thanks to Valerio Schiavoni...

An Interview over at On Ruby

over 4 years ago by Russ Olsen on Technology As If People Mattered.
New interview with yours truly over at the On Ruby blog...

Book Review: Business Process Management With JBoss jBPM

over 4 years ago by Russ Olsen on Technology As If People Mattered.
A couple of interesting things happened to me recently. I have been designing a system with a workflow side to it and the thinking was that the JBoss jBPM...

Let's Just Chill

over 4 years ago by Russ Olsen on Technology As If People Mattered.
At least from my point of view, 2008 has gotten off to a somewhat rocky start. As a developer with one foot in the Java camp (proven, reliable, fast) and...

New Ruby Book Discussion Group

almost 4 years ago by Russ Olsen on Technology As If People Mattered.
Well it has been a while since I’ve written here, mostly because I was spending a fair bit of my time helping to organize (and speaking at) the RubyNationconference...

Book Review: Why Size Matters

almost 4 years ago by Russ Olsen on Technology As If People Mattered.
No, it‘s not what you think: This is a book about how going for a swim is different for a bacteria than a whale, how a deep breath is cleansing for...

Some Important Numbers For Developers

almost 4 years ago by Russ Olsen on Technology As If People Mattered.
Software engineering is one of those semi-mathematical technical professions that is just chock full of numbers. Our machines run at so many gigahertz and...

To IDE Or Not To IDE

over 3 years ago by Russ Olsen on Technology As If People Mattered.
Since I live near Washington DC and this is a presidential election year, I am painfully aware that people sometimes do not agree on things: at the moment...

Exploring The Ruby Interpreter

over 3 years ago by Russ Olsen on Technology As If People Mattered.
Ever wonder how some Ruby class or method is implemented only to discover that the thing is actually part of the built in classes that come with your Ruby...

Rocket Science and Software Engineering

over 3 years ago by Russ Olsen on Technology As If People Mattered.
Here‘s a book for your late summer beach reading: Achieving the Vision for Space Exploration on Time and Within Budget. Well technically it's not...