Ruth Holloway

2063 points

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

How to use Python to hack your Eclipse IDE

Kicking the tires on Korora, a novice-friendly Linux distro

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LilyPond scores beautiful music

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Open source code for a better food system, code with grass image

Plerd: A Dropbox-friendly Markdown blog platform

Jason McIntosh had a problem: He'd gotten out of the habit of writing long-form blog posts. A decade before, he'd been a regular on LiveJournal, but that platform is getting a…

A first-timer's guide to getting started with open source code and communities

So, you want to start using that open source thing... You've been reading Opensource.com and there's a package that you're excited about. You'd love to give it a try and maybe…

Embracing the tech world's open source shift

I grew up in the VAX/ VMS world. Our student computing system at the college I attended was a VAX 11/785, and when I would later work for the administrative computing…

Taking a spin with Dancer, the lightweight Perl web application framework

Dancer is a lightweight web application framework for Perl, inspired by the Sinatra framework in Ruby. Dancer bills itself as simple and flexible, but powerful enough to run…

Authored Comments

druthb

16 Feb 2017

Generate random data for your applications with Elizabeth

Great find! Thanks for sharing it!

druthb

16 Feb 2017

Generate random data for your applications with Elizabeth

I agree with you on this--there's a risk involved in using nominally-valid addresses. I did a little digging in the code, and this is actually configurable! In __init__.py, starting about 2100 lines in, you can find the array definition for EMAIL_DOMAINS, which gives a list of domains for the sample email generator. Changing that would change this questionable behavior.