At this stage rpa-base is working fine for many people (it is hard to know the real user base because rpa-base updates itself), and with well over 100 packaged Ruby libs/apps I’m probably second only to FreeBSD’s knu in terms of Ruby software packaged by a single individual :-). So it’s about time to analyze what I have so far...

At this stage rpa-base is working fine for many people (it is hard to know the real user base because rpa-base updates itself), and with well over 100 packaged Ruby libs/apps I’m probably second only to FreeBSD’s knu in terms of Ruby software packaged by a single individual :-). So it’s about time to analyze what I have so far...

Right - I'm off to The Old Bank of England, Fleet Street, for London 2.0rc1. See you all there....

Right - I'm off to The Old Bank of England, Fleet Street, for London 2.0rc1. See you all there....

Don't forget, London based nerds of whatever stripe, Monday night is London 2.0rc1. I hope to see a whole bunch of you there....

Don't forget, London based nerds of whatever stripe, Monday night is London 2.0rc1. I hope to see a whole bunch of you there....

All IT systems have roughly equal hassle rates. Should you improve the quality of your software (by means of thorough automated testing and so forth), other components of the system...

All IT systems have roughly equal hassle rates. Should you improve the quality of your software (by means of thorough automated testing and so forth), other components of the system...

We have a special guest for January's London Python Meetup; c.l.py regular Steve Holden, perhaps best known for the terribly good Python Web Programming. The date will be Tuesday the...

We have a special guest for January's London Python Meetup; c.l.py regular Steve Holden, perhaps best known for the terribly good Python Web Programming. The date will be Tuesday the...

Well, some of you already know that I've been working on getting a new book contract and this is it! I just signed with SourceBeat publishing to do a Tapestry book for them. This book will hopefully not be too far behind a 4.0 (was 3.1) release and will walk through the building of an entire application. The application will be significantly...

Well, some of you already know that I've been working on getting a new book contract and this is it! I just signed with SourceBeat publishing to do a Tapestry book for them. This book will hopefully not be too far behind a 4.0 (was 3.1) release and will walk through the building of an entire application. The application will be significantly...

Hey man, pimp my browser (ala pimp my ride). http://people.zeelandnet.nl/marco/pimpzilla/images/pimpzilla.jpg http://people.zeelandnet.nl/marco/pimpzilla/

Hey man, pimp my browser (ala pimp my ride). http://people.zeelandnet.nl/marco/pimpzilla/images/pimpzilla.jpg http://people.zeelandnet.nl/marco/pimpzilla/

I finally got permission to make my Maven chapter available for download. This is an introduction to Maven which I wrote for "Professional Java Tools for Extreme Programming" through Wrox. Without further ado, you can find it here at my Sandcast site - http://www.sandcastsoftware.com/articlesandtutorials/index.html. I know that it looks a...