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About troessner

I am a Ruby enthusiast currently working for dealvertise in Berlin. I like dynamic languages in general with a strong focus on Ruby. Headhunters, don't bother. No, I do NOT want to be a Java architect for a mid-size company in the middle of nowhere. I probably would love Python if it wouldn't force me to write `self` all over the goddamn place. I really suck at functional programming. I should have paid more attention at university. NoSQL is worth the hype. Or is it? I am a big advocate of Behavior Driven Development. Yes, really. I tried to love node.js, but in the end, it's still fucking javascript. I was a devoted SCRUM believer. I have a deep interest in Erlang but haven't had a chance to really use it. I try to contribute as much as possible to open source. Right now I am the maintainer of the transitions gem (https://github.com/troessner/transitions), the ecircle gem (https://github.com/troessner/ecircle) and the has_uuid gem (https://github.com/troessner/has_uuid). Besides that I recently got fascinated with Rubinius and I am trying to really understand why this works. Furthermore, I have made some rather petty contributions to Rubinius: https://github.com/rubinius/rubinius/commits/master?author=troessner You can find most of the code I write on github - https://github.com/troessner Sometimes I write down stuff on: http://troessner.wordpress.com/