Ruth Holloway

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Houston, TX

Ruth Holloway has been a system administrator and software developer for a long, long time, getting her professional start on a VAX 11/780, way back when. She spent a lot of her career (so far) serving the technology needs of libraries, and has been a contributor since 2008 to the Koha open source library automation suite. Ruth is currently a Perl developer and project lead at Clearbuilt. You can find out more about Ruth's passions and career at her site. She's a mother, grandmother, wife, artist, public speaker, and mommy to the cutest little dog you'll ever meet.

Open Source Champion Best Interview Award 2017 Author Columnist

Authored Content

30 years on, Perl and its community continue to thrive

Perl turns 30 and its community continues to thrive

Created for utility and known for its dedicated users, Perl has proven staying power. Here's a brief history of the language and a look at some top user groups.

Neo4j in your own software: Very basic Perl hacking

In this final article in a three-part series, learn to write some Perl code to query your graph database.

Neo4j and graph databases: Getting started

In the second of a three-part series, install Neo4j and start using the web client to insert and query data in the graph.

Fundamentals of graph databases with Neo4j

In the first of a three-part series, learn the basics of graph databases, which power some of the largest data pools on the planet.

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Simplify expense reports with Smart Receipts

Open source mobile app helps you track and submit business expenses and offers white-label customization options.

Google software engineer Jessica Frazelle on the life of a large scale open source project

Tips and tools for building and nurturing open source contributors, maintainers, and supporters, from someone who's been there.

Authored Comments

druthb

20 Apr 2018

A Perl module for better debugging

A look at the source code for Keyword::DEVELOPMENT will make it clear that you could *totally* use the same or a similar technique for other things.

druthb

20 Apr 2018

A Perl module for better debugging

Thirty years of writing code; I know all too well what happens when you hardcode config information. Which is why I said,"n the absence of a more evolved configuration management system." I've had a number of projects which started out with something like this, then iterated and got a more robust config management system, as the needs of the project became clearer.