LinuxWorld Australia: Open Source Education | Linux Today

LinuxWorld Australia: Open Source Education

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 11, 2006

“Graham Glass wrote a blog entry this week that touched on two
of my favorite themes: open source and education. In the middle of
a project based on the red-hot Ruby on Rails platform, he took time
out to explain how he found, and worked around, a Rails limitation.
Digging down to the roots of the problem took six hours of
investigation. Crafting the work-around took just six lines of
code.

“Glass is one of the more dynamic figures in the software world.
At his first company, ObjectSpace, he created the Voyager object
request broker…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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