A story about Allan Duff Odgaard
I think I first met Allan in 1998 via a mutual friend Sune Foldager.
In my parents garden we have had several bonfires, where we were a number of young coders sitting around the fire, talking code and crazy ideas.
Simon Strandgaard
meeting 18 people,doing 42 things,
going 21 places
What Simon Strandgaard has done in 2008
Recent stories by and about Simon Strandgaard
A story about Bjarne Stroustrup
He held a speach about C++’s future at DIKU (the Computer Science department at Copenhagen University).
A story about Andrei Alexandrescu
I read Modern C++ Design and it changed my life. What he has started is like a religion.
A story about Dave Thomas
First the Programming Ruby (version 1 online) was very easily read and quickly bootstrapped me with Ruby. Later I bought version 2.
Second the Pragmatic Programmer has recently made me a better programmer.
Thanks for discovering Ruby and writing a book and making it available online. Thanks for sharing the best advises of your knowledge.
A story about Yukihiro Matsumoto
Matz is the architect+implementor of Ruby. He realized the amount of visual noise in other programming languages could be reduced, thus Ruby is easy to read. Thanks for inventing this and making all of it open source.
Why I want to meet Simon Strandgaard
Wrote an editor and his own very powerful Regular Expression library in Ruby. Very cool.
