Jim Weirich

I’ve met Pat years earlier at several Ruby conferences, but this year at OSCON, we got to spend some time at lunch and have some really good conversations. Thanks Pat!

A very friendly, super-productive, make-it-real programmer, who drops great software on the world. Think of all those coins in Super Mario Brothers, those all represent stuff like Rake and other Jimified Ruby goodies.

I almost saw him in a video, once. Wasn’t him.

At RubyConf 2005. We had lunch together. It was yummy.

I had lunch with Jim at the RubyConf 2005… he was wonderfully down to earth and put on two awesome presentations.

David A Black, Chad Fowler and I were amoung the first people to arrive at the very first Ruby Conference in 2001. I remember walking around Thursday evening trying to find a place to grab a bite to eat.

David A Black, Chad Fowler and I were amoung the first people to arrive at the very first Ruby Conference in 2001. I remember walking around Thursday evening trying to find a place to grab a bite to eat.

It was an off-hand comment by Dave Thomas in some mailing list that caused me to check out the Ruby programming language. I was in the midst of my 3rd attempt to pick up Python, and that attempt was suddenly aborted upon discovering Ruby.

I met Martin Fowler at a Cincinnati Object Oriented Technology Users group meeting a number of years ago. I had just read his Refactoring book and was using UML Distilled in a OO designn class.

I was thrilled when he decided to write a short article about Rake.

I met why at one of the Seattle Ruby Conference. I remember asking if “why” was his real name and he said yes, but the “the lucky stiff” was a nickname given to him by his sister.