11 August 2011 5 Comments

Christian Neukirchen

Christian Neukirchen

Who is Christian Neukirchen? Christian Neukirchen (aka chris2) has been programming Ruby since 2001. As lead developer of the abstract webserver interface Rack, he is committed to unifying the Ruby web development landscape.  He also authored several other Ruby libraries, among them the popular BDD frameworks test/spec and bacon. To the Internet community, he is [...]

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7 February 2011 9 Comments

Giles Bowkett

Giles Bowkett

Who is Giles Bowkett? Giles Bowkett is a thriving programmer, a struggling actor, a prolific blogger, a once and future information marketer, and a former DJ whose vinyl records simply did not sell, at all. He’s writing a book on how to create algorithmic music with Ruby. He expects it to sell, because people have [...]

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30 January 2011 4 Comments

Salvatore Sanfilippo

Salvatore Sanfilippo

Who is Salvatore Sanfilippo? I’m a programmer based in Sicily, Italy, 33 years old. I believe that programming is a fight against complexity, and that reinventing the wheel is a good thing. I work for VMware, my goal is to develop the Redis data structure server.

24 January 2011 10 Comments

Dave Fayram

Dave Fayram

Who is Dave Fayram? I’m a long time programming hobbyist who just happens to get paid for his work. Unlike some developers that are in it for the challenge of building big systems, I’m in it for the challenge of learning new things. In particular, I’m a total language nerd. Actually, I’m a total nerd [...]

23 June 2010 18 Comments

Fogus

Fogus

Who is Fogus? A programmer in Northern Virginia.  I am co-authoring a book entitled The Joy of Clojure with Chris Houser.