Gavin Bell is a key figure on the London developer scene. I first came across him when he showed me to the O’Reilly stand at Open Tech at Hammersmith, filling me in on the day’s events with his gentle Northern Irish brogue. I have seen him present half a dozen times and he’s never...
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O’Reilly’s Josette Garcia had a cosy chat with Alex Martelli. Together they discussed the past and future of Python, Martelli’s role at Google, what he misses about Italy, working with his wife and how he feels about Erlang: Q. 1) Python 3000! What is the story behind this huge number? A. It started as...
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Christian Crumlish is the curator of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and co-author of Designing Social Interfaces. Christian spoke in London and Berlin in January 2010, when he kindly agreed to be interviewed: CS: What was your route into technology? What were your founding interests that have proven useful over the years? CC: I...
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Kris Buytaert has been a prolific contributor to GMT for the last six months, bringing news of the goings-on from the heart of Europe, beside writing for his own blog, Everything is a Freaking DNS Problem. He is a long time Linux and Open Source Consultant doing Linux and Open Source projects in Belgium,...
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I went along to see Christian Crumlish speak at Covent Garden Wallacespace. Christian is the curator of the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library and co-author of Designing Social Interfaces, and he did a fine hour-long talk (plus questions) about how design patterns can be used for building social websites. My notes, incomplete as they are,...
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