Ruth Holloway

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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

Is Occupy Wall St. really an "open source protest?"

Prepare to be hacked: Information security for small organizations

Information security is challenging, and can be breathtakingly expensive in money and staff energy. Smaller organizations may not have the money or staffing expertise to do…

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Rumors of COBOL's demise have been greatly exaggerated: Meet GnuCOBOL

A recent article on Slashdot points out with some chagrin that the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Veterans Affairs in the United States still use COBOL…

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A 5-step plan for making sure new contributors have a positive experience

In The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric S. Raymond makes the case that "with enough eyes, all bugs are shallow." It's a good sentiment, but as a new project spins up, getting…

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A new solution for impostor syndrome

By now, unless you've been living in a cave with no Internet access for years and years, you've probably heard of impostor syndrome, an extreme sort of self-confidence problem…

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Build your own artificial pancreas system to regulate insulin delivery

For decades now, open source software (and lately, hardware!) has been transforming the ways that we live and work. It is, in the opinion of OpenAPS project founder Dana Lewis…

Phire CMS: A feature-rich, lightweight content management system

Phire CMS: A feature-rich, lightweight content management system

By 2009, developer Nick Sagona had, over time, built quite a few custom, hand-rolled content management solutions for his specific client needs. He realized that having a…

Authored Comments

18 Aug 2017

Don't hate COBOL until you've tried it

Thanks for a great article! I did some COBOL early on in my professional career, and am still a fan.

12 Jun 2017

Getting started with Go

Great introduction! Thanks a bunch for sharing it. :)