Zed Shaw
Programmer and writer behind Learn Code the Hard Way and the Mongrel Ruby web server.
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- Zed A.
- Shaw is a software developer and author.
- He wrote Mongrel, a web server for Ruby applications that was Twitter's first web server, and its successor Mongrel2.
- He created the Learn Code the Hard Way series, which teaches Python, Ruby, C, regex and SQL.
- He is known for outspoken essays on programming languages and communities, such as "Rails is a Ghetto".
- On his site he publishes essays and writes about painting.
Key facts
- Software
- Mongrel and Mongrel2 web servers; Lamson, a Python mail server behind LibreList1
- Books
- Learn Python the Hard Way (2010), Learn Ruby the Hard Way (2014), Learn C the Hard Way (2015), Learn Python 3 the Hard Way (2017)1
- Writing
- Personal essays and opinion pieces on zedshaw.com2
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