Does anyone else feel quite devastated by the recent mysterious disappearance of _why from the internet?
He is (almost said was) by far the most extraordinary technologist I can think of and responsible for what I think are some of the most interesting ruby projects - markaby, shoes, hpricot, camping, hackety hack. That and the poignant guide of course. A large part of my interest in the ruby community was solely due to him. While his humour perhaps wasn't to everyone's taste, he certainly had a much less arrogant or aggressive and incredibly creative approach to software that I found quite inspiring. The performance shooting match between nokogiri and hpricot seemed a little over the top at the time - most people seem to be speculating about whether that might have been the cause. For me it is considerably more upsetting than the death of Michael Jackson, Kurt Cobain, Elvis, John Lennon - I never particularly cared about those people. Perhaps i'm just getting old. Mark. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
