About Nils
I can’t do it with a straight face, but I could describe myself as a codewright. Like a play, source code is executable literature that is intended for more than just silent reading. It contains instructions by the author that must yield a meaningful result when carried out in front of an audience (the user). If the experience is enjoyable, so much the better.
I’m part of a startup based in Houston, building products for law enforcement. I speak Ruby (since 2005), JavaScript (since 2005), and C# (since 2002).
I’ve contributed to a few open-source projects (Rails, Albacore, ninja-deploy, todotask, and usesguid_migrations) and created a few of my own (htty, Cape, Trestle Generator for Rails, validates_constancy for Rails, Trapeze, Rouge, To ☞ Done!, Glucodes, and Elastatic).
You can expect me to write about:
- agile methods
- application programming interface (API) design
- automated software testing and specification
- distributed version control systems (DVCS)
- domain-specific programming languages (DSLs)
- dynamic programming languages
- free/libre/open-source software (FLOSS)
- functional programming (FP)
- interaction design (IxD)
- metaprogramming
- object-oriented programming (OOP)
- open systems and technologies
- social software
- software usability
- whatever else strikes my fancy
I’m njonsson on Twitter, GitHub, Hacker News, Ohloh, and pretty much everywhere else.
