Mettaprogramming Super Rocket Dinosaur Fun Monkeys!
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I'm John Metta, a programmer, a hydrologist, an anthropologist, and an all around friendly guy (except when I have to program in Visual Basic… <shudder>… it just makes my inside bits go all wonky! Like when eating sauerkraut)
I wanted to learn Ruby, and I like doing things right, and doing them as a team, so I started a local Ruby Users Group!
Scheduling happy hour is a chore no more! Now you can have your beer, and learn salsa dancing too! It’s a free community calendar for The Gorge!
I sometimes play with [rediviva] magazine for fun, and work on the crazy ideas we come up with like “hey, let’s build a huge unwieldy public events system!
It’s not Shakespeare, but you at least get SOMETHING when one million monkeys type all day on one million iPhones!
I’ve got an interesting question that I have no answers to yet:
How can I protect Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) development while working as a contract programmer?
Specifically, how can I promote the development of small libraries like Ruby Gems and make sure that it is both understood, accepted, and most of all legal?
Using Free Stuff, Is It “Take” Only?
I’m not talking about stealing intellectual property from a client and throwing a GPL on it, of course. But there’s an interesting responsibility that I feel when I program. It comes …
