Here are some rambling notes on the themes and connections – intended and mostly otherwise – I saw in the material presented and discussed in the halls at Nordic Ruby.
In Tom Preston-Werner's opening session, he talked about …
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The tech community has a diversity problem. Take gender diversity, for one thing. By most counts, the average open source project has 49 male participants for every female participant. Women at conferences – rare enough already! – are …
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On January 1, 2000, I was in Florida, with Liz and her family. We'd only been back from our year in Europe – her in England, me in various parts of Germany – a few months, and I was still adapting. When it turned out that Y2K didn't kill …
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Beginning a few years ago, there have been a few projects – Rhino, Jaxer, more recently Narwhal – that proclaimed we were about to enter a golden era of server-side JavaScript programming. But the implementations always seemed to fall …
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I'm very excited to be speaking at the Scottish Ruby Conference on Saturday. I've been an attendee at the conference (well, in its previous incarnation as Scotland on Rails) and it's one of my all-time favorite conferences.
My talk is on the challenges …
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Let's start with how not to review a game. This is quite possibly the worst review ever. I don't know if the Star-Telegram reviews games often, but this is a phenomenally lazy attempt. They couldn't figure out how to play two of the games, so they give …
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I wonder if some of the reason that there are so many Climate Change Skeptics in North America has to do with the overall temperature here being kinda coldish.
I mean, if you asked most North Americans how they'd like the temperature if it were a couple …
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I'm contemplating starting to blog more regularly. Trying this on for size.
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A little game called Dominion, possibly my favorite game in recent years, has just won a very prestigious game award, and is nominated for another — perhaps even more prestigious — award.
Dominion is a card game for 2-4 players (or up …
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One of the spoiling things about living for two years where you don't fluently speak the local language, is that the range of external communication you can safely ignore expands dramatically. In fact, my brain's ability to filter irrelevant conversations …
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