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Jazzers and Programmers

Presented by Nick Sieger on Jan 10, 2009

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Ruby
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Programming
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RubyFringe
Summary
In this presentation from RubyFringe, Nick Sieger explains the history and nature of Jazz music and what it has in common with Programming.

Bio
Nick Sieger is a staff engineer at Sun Microsystems where he has been working on a team building a large JRuby on Rails application. He is a member of the JRuby core team and blogs at http://blog.nicksieger.com/

About the conference
RubyFringe is an avant-garde conference for developers that are excited about emerging Ruby projects and technologies. They're mounting a unique and eccentric gathering of the people and projects that are driving things forward in our community.

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What's next by Dimas Crocco Posted Feb 10, 2009 10:21 PM

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    What's next

    Feb 10, 2009 10:21 PM by Dimas Crocco

    Bossa nova (the brazilian jazz) is next! =)

    Simple and complex.

    Watch out:

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV1IWeIHDQA

    Reply

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