http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/01/30/leahs-tattoo/ Tech Evangelist Joey deVilla on Shopify, startups, software development, tech news and other nerdy stuff Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:18:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/01/30/leahs-tattoo/comment-page-1/#comment-16635 Whyday is Friday — Global Nerdy Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:08:24 +0000 http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/01/30/leahs-tattoo/#comment-16635 [...] The “brief” and “gone” bits take a little more explaining. _why’s notoriety rose with Ruby’s popularity, which in turn was connected to Ruby on Rails. I remember reading some posts on one of his blogs, RedHanded, as far back as late 2003, and the (poignant) guide surfaced in 2004 and found its way into print in 2005, when the chapter A Quick (and Hopefully Painless) Ride Through Ruby (with Cartoon Foxes) appeared in the Apress book The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky. His music-and-code extravanganzas at South by Southwest, O’Reilly’s Open Source conference and the first RailsConf cemented his rep as the programmer who was also a performance artist and by 2008, people were seeking him out for all sorts of things, from personal appearances (Pete Forde tried to get him to come to RubyFringe, but convincing him to leave the US proved to be impossible) to commissioning body art (Leah Culver got him to design a tattoo for her). [...] [...] The “brief” and “gone” bits take a little more explaining. _why’s notoriety rose with Ruby’s popularity, which in turn was connected to Ruby on Rails. I remember reading some posts on one of his blogs, RedHanded, as far back as late 2003, and the (poignant) guide surfaced in 2004 and found its way into print in 2005, when the chapter A Quick (and Hopefully Painless) Ride Through Ruby (with Cartoon Foxes) appeared in the Apress book The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky. His music-and-code extravanganzas at South by Southwest, O’Reilly’s Open Source conference and the first RailsConf cemented his rep as the programmer who was also a performance artist and by 2008, people were seeking him out for all sorts of things, from personal appearances (Pete Forde tried to get him to come to RubyFringe, but convincing him to leave the US proved to be impossible) to commissioning body art (Leah Culver got him to design a tattoo for her). [...]

]]> http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/01/30/leahs-tattoo/comment-page-1/#comment-5433 How and Where is _why? — Global Nerdy Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:23:04 +0000 http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/01/30/leahs-tattoo/#comment-5433 [...] Last but not least, there’s programmer Leah Culver, who commissioned a tattoo from _why: [...] [...] Last but not least, there’s programmer Leah Culver, who commissioned a tattoo from _why: [...]

]]> http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/01/30/leahs-tattoo/comment-page-1/#comment-4020 Will Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:44:42 +0000 http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/01/30/leahs-tattoo/#comment-4020 Leah is Beautiful! Oh the tattoo. I think it is pretty kool...It is different Leah is Beautiful!
Oh the tattoo. I think it is pretty kool…It is different

]]> http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/01/30/leahs-tattoo/comment-page-1/#comment-3296 Leah Culver Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:44:01 +0000 http://www.globalnerdy.com/2009/01/30/leahs-tattoo/#comment-3296 I think the "late binding" joke is funny at least. Thanks! I think the “late binding” joke is funny at least. Thanks!

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