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James Golick

James Golick's software experience ranges from artificial intelligence to web front-end and JavaScript development. Most recently, James has fallen back in love with web development thanks to Ruby on Rails.

Since discovering Rails, James has become a prolific contributor to its open source ecosystem. He is the author of several popular plug-ins and gems, and a contributor to countless others, including the framework itself.

James is an advocate for well-written, well-tested code and he blogs regularly about the practice of developing software. He speaks regularly at software development conferences and user groups. James is a partner in Nine Lives, Inc.

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FLOSS week

Feb 16 2009

We at giraffesoft went over a year without even having a website. Then, we lasted a few months with a website, but no blog. That ends today, hopefully with something of a bang.

We're big believers in extracting functionality sooner rather than later. This practice has resulted in a ton of code that we use in all of our projects — nice and DRY.

Only problem is, we never get around to releasing this stuff. Starting a blog seemed like a good excuse to spend some time polishing up some code and, you know, writing READMEs.

So, starting today, we'll be releasing an open source project every day this week. They'll probably be mostly rails plugins. But, you never know. Something else might float in.

If you're interested in following along, subscribe to giraffesoft, the blog. Or, if like me, you don't really use your feed reader anymore, follow @giraffesoft on twitter or github! See you later with the first project.


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