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Compiler Construction with Ruby and Racc at RubyConf

Well hey there, buddy! As you may remember from my previous post, I’m a bit of a programming language nerd wannabe. That hasn’t changed, but I wanted to share with you a nice little tool for messing around with compiler construction in Ruby. I write lots of little toy, throwaway compilers. It’s a sort of [...]

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Next Stop: OSCON – Challenge Your Assumptions

Join us next week at OSCON 2012, the leading conference for the open source community. Unlike other conferences that focus entirely on one language or part of the stack, OSCON covers the open source ecosystem in its entirety, exactly as you approach it in your work. This year’s event runs from July 16 – July [...]

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Is this the ‘Nerd Economy’?

I think so. The future of the economy and economic recovery lies with the ‘nerds’- specifically, those nerds that code. And this is a good thing. They are smart. There has never been a better time to be a nerdpreneur. San Francisco may be the hub, but this is a global movement. Marc Andreessen touched on [...]

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Node.js, ASP.NET, & Sinatra, Rails, Java: The List Goes On, Removing the OS Barrier with PaaS Part 3.14159265

In Part 3.1 of this series, I went into some of the context around NoOps, DevOps, AppOps, and the movements that have led us to PaaS enabled cloud computing. Before in Part 2, I covered building a basic build up of a Cloud Foundry micro instance, where to get a pre-built micro instance, and provided links [...]

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NoOps, AppOps, DevOps, & More – Removing the OS Barrier with PaaS, Part 3.1

Welcome to a double feature blog entry for Part 3. I’ve gotten a lot of feedback for Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. Because of the number of emails, comments, Tweets and other messages, there is an apparent need to add more context to PaaS, the NoOps/AppOps/DevOps thought, and how Cloud Foundry is [...]

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