Zed Shaw

Zed Shaw
Shaw in Montreal, 2008
Website
http://zedshaw.com/

Zed A. Shaw is a writer, software developer, and musician, most commonly known for creating the Mongrel web server for Ruby web applications, as well as his unconventional and sometimes controversial articles on technology, business, and technical communities. His most famous and well-covered piece was his article called "Rails is a Ghetto", which has since been removed from his site.

Software

Shaw is the original writer of the Mongrel web server for Ruby web applications (acknowledged by the creators of Ruby to be one of the first scalable Ruby web servers)^{[citation needed]}. Mongrel was the first web server used by Twitter, and inspired Node.js according to Ryan Dahl . He has also created the Lamson mail framework, a Python framework for creating SMTP mail applications.

In 2009, Shaw opened Fret War, an online competitive community for guitarists and in 2010 released Mongrel2 (a language-agnostic successor to Mongrel using ZeroMQ and JSON as the foundation for an application-oriented web server).

Books

In 2010, Shaw wrote and published Learn Python the Hard Way, a tutorial for the Python programming language. On June 24, 2011 Shaw released the second edition.

After the release of the second edition of Learn Python the Hard Way, Shaw began to write a tutorial for the C programming language, Learn C the Hard Way.

Speaking

• Zed spoke at CUSEC 2008. His talk, The ACL is Dead, covers how to survive in a corporation while highlighting the shortcomings of ACLs.

Links

• Zed Shaw's homepage
• Learn Python the Hard Way
• Learn C the Hard Way
• Zed Shaw's Starving Artist Ad Network
• Zed's Web Framework, Tir Web Framework