Rick DeNatale

I am a long-time object oriented technologies, practitioner, evangelist, and provocateur. I've been a Ruby programmer and consultant since 2006.

Some highlights from my 32 year career at IBM include: the development of the initial proof of concept for IBM VisualAge/Smalltalk, a distributed implementation of the Smalltalk
language, work on VisualAge Micro Edition for Java (the precursor to Eclipse), serving as a founding member and secretary of
the X3J20 Smalltalk committee, and appearances in the
early decades of OOPSLA.

I've had the opportunity to know, work, and interact with many of those who laid the groundwork for what we do with Ruby and how we do it.

My sporadic thoughts, mostly about the Ruby language and related topics can be found at my blog. http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com