shit man! that sucks, you will be missed :-{
Ezra Zygmuntowicz has died
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#12Wow... Very sad news. His twitter page shows him living in Eugene, Oregon, my hometown. I wonder what he was doing there.
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#13If you didn't know Ezra, some of his talks are available on Confreaks:
http://www.confreaks.com/presenters/59-ezra-zygmuntowicz
In particular, his last talk at RailsConf 2012 is a fascinating history of Ruby on Rails:
http://www.confreaks.com/videos/911-railsconf2012-what-a-lon...
Re: Ezra Zygmuntowicz has died
#14Oh wow. So sad to hear about a pillar and pioneer in the Ruby community.
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#15I shared a cab ride with Ezra from the New Orleans airport to the RubyConf hotel in 2010. In the very short time we spent in the car talking about his new role at VMware working on Cloud Foundry, his enthusiasm and passion for Ruby and the community's future left a huge impression on me.
Ezra, you will be missed.
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#16I woke up this morning to Regan's post on that old photo.
It's an incredibly sad day: a great hacker, founder, and community member has been lost forever.
Goodbye Exra, I'll miss you.
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#17I meet Ezra at RailsConf 2007, this was pre Engine yard if I am not mistaken. At this point he was all merb. He was fun to be around, very positive attitude and extremely smart. Sad day…
Ezra agreed to co-found Engine Yard in January 2006, and was full-time in August or September I believe.
Merb was built to handle a high-traffic endpoint for one of our customers. :-)
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#18I meet Ezra at RailsConf 2007, this was pre Engine yard if I am not mistaken. At this point he was all merb. He was fun to be around, very positive attitude and extremely smart. Sad day…
Ezra agreed to co-found Engine Yard in January 2006, and was full-time in August or September I believe. Merb was built to handle a high-traffic endpoint for one of our customers. :-)
So Merb's genesis was in response to a customer's need? I remember Rails, Ruby, and the hosting stack being mighty slow back in the early days.
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#19Ezra was the first to start making Redis popular, wrote the initial implementation of the Ruby client, gave the first talk I remember at lightning conf. One time I met him at EY office with his family, with the 2 months old child. At some point he started to disappear more and more, we were supposed to meet in Portland at a Redis conf and he was not able to make it. I was concerned about him every time I saw a rare tweet. I'm sorry Ezra.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ezra agreed to co-found Engine Yard in January 2006, and was full-time in August or September I believe. Merb was built to handle a high-traffic endpoint for one of our customers. :-)
So Merb's genesis was in response to a customer's need? I remember Rails, Ruby, and the hosting stack being mighty slow back in the early days.
Merb started as essentially a wrapper on top of mongrel handler. Merb = Mongrel + erb. Mongrel had concurrency and it was super lightweight. However, it did not have goodies like routing or templating engine. Ezra write Merb as modular framework which did not care if you used datamapper or active record. Haml or ERB.