Madison Ruby 2013 was held this weekend. The conference attracts smart, intellectually curious people who are thirsty to learn more. By the way, Madison Ruby was a lot of fun, too! Speakers: Impressive and Accessible First, lets cover the obvious...
Age has little to do with ability. Every profession has examples of people who achieve goals even though others consider them too young or too old. People who excel in the face of stereotypes are exciting to watch. The Wall...
Ignite Chicago is an evening of 5-minute talks presented by speakers who want to inspire others. Each speaker is allowed twenty slides, and the slides advance automatically every fifteen seconds. The Ignite organizers asked me to present Why We Need...
The Petascale Tools Workshop is for computer scientists who create tools that enable apps to run efficiently on the world’s fastest supercomputers. Supercomputer performance is measured in petaflops: 1015 floating point operations per second. That’s blazing speed, thousands of times...
Pat Metheny encourages musicians to “be the worst” in whatever band they choose to join. Of course, he does not mean to play poorly. Rather, he encourages us to surround ourselves with the best musicians we can find so that...
Octopress is a lean blogging engine that happens to power RayHightower.com. Earlier today, after a quick update to the blog, I encountered the following: $ rake generate /Users/rth/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448@global/gems/bundler-1.2.4/lib/bundler/rubygems_integration.rb:187:in `stub_source_index170': uninitialized constant Gem::SourceIndex (NameError) from /Users/rth/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448@global/gems/bundler-1.2.4/lib/bundler/rubygems_integration.rb:353:in `stub_rubygems' from /Users/rth/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448@global/gems/bundler-1.2.4/lib/bundler/rubygems_integration.rb:250:in `replace_entrypoints' from...
