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Hashrocket launched Ancient City Ruby in 2013 and the conference has grown ever since. Participants come from around the world: Some to speak, some to learn, some to pair-program with the Hashrocket team for days (or weeks) after the conference....

The Pine64 is a single board computer with four 64-bit cores. The device runs Linux, and prices start at US$15.00. The company raised $1.7 million in their Jan 2016 Kickstarter campaign. This post tells how to get a brand new...

Flourish! is an exciting and free (as in beer) open source conference held annually at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dates for this year: April 1-2, 2016. Why Flourish? We go to conferences so that we can learn about...

Find a need and fulfill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people. ~A. G. Gaston The Internet of Things is surrounded by hype. But a few companies are navigating beyond the hype into a river of profit. IoT...

Don’t just be stuck with an idea in your head. Build it, and get it in your hands. ~Alan Baker of Chicago Industrial Arts & Design Center The Chicago Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) hosted a special meeting...

The need for speed is driving more developers to explore parallelism as a way to improve performance. Parallella offers an inexpensive way to experiment with the new paradigm. Groupon’s Software Engeineering Team invited me to share some Parallella explorations during...