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THERE WILL BE PORN: 10 Dangerous Ideas Nobody Should Implement

Topics
Ruby,
Ruby on Rails

In this presentation from RubyFringe, Zed Shaw bids farewell to Ruby, with a few ideas as well as live music and a few songs about the Ruby community.

Zed Shaw on Mongrel, Ruby stacks and languages besides Ruby

Topics
Ruby on Rails,
Programming,
Ruby,
Technology

Zed Shaw sat down with InfoQ's Obie Fernandez to talk about his project Mongrel. The discussion moves on Ruby in the Enterprise and ways to make money from it. The interview ends with Zed talking about his ventures into languages such as Smalltalk, Lua and the Forth-inspired Factor.

Mongrel, 2500 Lines, and Economics

Topics
Ruby on Rails,
Community,
Programming,
Performance & Scalability,
Ruby

In this presentation @ QCon London, Zed Shaw explains the impact Mongrel's 2500 lines of code have had. He also goes into what makes a project successful (good documentation, make the product is to install and extend, etc) and how companies can get on the good side of open source projects they use.