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Entrepreneurs, especially those outside of software development, may find this article useful. When Performance Matters Over seventy percent of the web servers on the planet run Linux, the open source operating system. Google, Facebook, and Amazon all run Linux. They...

Silicon Graphics International Corporation (SGI) computers rendered the special effects for the original Jurassic Park movie. Computer enthusiasts coveted SGI machines throughout the 1990s. But success in the computer industry is fleeting. A few years after Jurassic Park, a convergence...

Spend enough time developing software on Mac OS X, and you will eventually need to install libraries that were written for Unix, but not specifically for OS X. Fortunately we have Homebrew, which makes it easier to install Unix libraries...

Rubinius is an implementation of the Ruby language designed for concurrency. The lead developer of Rubinius, Brian Shirai, will present Rubinius at ChicagoRuby on March 4, 2014. ChicagoRuby will follow-up with a Rubinius-themed hack night on March 12th. Details. To...

8th Light recently hosted a panel discussion on Controversial Coding Topics. I was honored to share the panel with two technology leaders whom I admire: Mark Rickmeier of Table XI and Corey Haines of Wavetable. Rachel Feigenbaum of 8th Light...

Thank you to everyone who offered feedback on An Environment of Respect, which included an early draft of the WindyCityRails Code of Conduct. The frank and earnest exchange of ideas was educational. Some of the feedback was positive, on the...