Sam Ruby

Sam Ruby
Sam Ruby
Nationality	American
Education	Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, Christopher Newport University
Occupation	software developer
Known for	Atom, Apache

Sam Ruby is a prominent software developer who has made significant contributions to web standards and open source software projects. In particular he has contributed to the standardization of syndicated web feeds via his involvement with the Atom standard and the Feed Validator web service.

He currently holds a Senior Technical Staff Member position in the Emerging Technologies Group of IBM and is the President of the Apache Software Foundation.^[1] He resides in Raleigh, North Carolina.^[2]

Background

Sam Ruby received a B.A. in Mathematics from Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia. Ruby was hired immediately out of college by IBM and has worked there since.

Apache Project

Ruby currently serves as the President of the Apache Software Foundation.^[3] He formerly served as Assistant Secretary; Director, Vice President of Legal Affairs; and was the former Chair of the Apache Jakarta Project. He also actively contributes to numerous Apache projects. Notably, he was one of the early Ant contributors, as well as being the creator of Gump.

Feed Validator

Ruby is the principal maintainer of the Feed validator, which he developed along with Mark Pilgrim.^[4] It's able to validate Atom feeds as well as RSS 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 0.94, 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 feeds.

PHP

Ruby also contributed to PHP, in particular to the Java Extension.^[5]

Ruby

Sam Ruby has done development in the Ruby programming language, leading to some confusion between the person's name and the language. However, there is no formal connection—they both just coincidentally have the same name.

Venus

Ruby is the author of Venus, an Atom/RSS feed aggregator, the codebase that began as a radical refactoring of the Planet 2.0 feed aggregator in 2006.^[6]

html5lib

Ruby is a developer member of the html5lib project, with his primary contribution being the initial port of html5lib to the Ruby programming language.

Standardization efforts

Ruby has been active within various standards development organizations.

ECMA standardization of the .NET Framework CLI

Ruby was the convener of the ECMA TC39 group that standardized the Common Language Infrastructure for Microsoft's .NET Framework.^[7]

Atom

The project which eventually became the Atom web feed standard was started by a blog posting by Sam Ruby in 2002 entitled "what makes a log entry". This blog posting eventually became a wiki project which acted as a rallying point for people looking to improve upon the frozen RSS format.^[8] Sam Ruby was the secretary of the IETF AtomPub working group. This working group completed RFC 4287, the Atom format specification ("The Atom Syndication Format"), in December 2005 and RFC 5023, "The Atom Publishing Protocol", in October 2007.

ECMAScript

Ruby is a member of the ECMAScript technical committee (ECMAScript TC39); his primary contribution to the group is in driving the effort to add Decimal support to ECMAScript.

HTML5

Ruby was an early adopter of HTML5, and has offered a number of concrete proposals which were subsequently incorporated into the HTML5 draft. He has been appointed co-chair of the W3C's HTML Working Group from 5 January 2009.^[9]

Bibliography

Agile Web Development with Rails 5 (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2016) (with Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson) ISBN 978-1-68050-171-1
Agile Web Development with Rails 4 (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2013) (with Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson) ISBN 1-937-78556-4
RESTful Web APIs (O'Reilly Publishing, 2013) (with Leonard Richardson and Mike Amundsen) ISBN 1-449-35806-3
Agile Web Development with Rails 3.2 (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2011) (with Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson) ISBN 1-934-35654-9
Agile Web Development with Rails, Third Edition (Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2009) (with Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson) ISBN 1-934-35616-6
RESTful Web Services (O'Reilly Publishing, 2007) (with Leonard Richardson) ISBN 0-596-52926-0

References

^ "Foundation Project". apache.org. Retrieved 2019-09-16.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-12-18. Retrieved 2006-02-24.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Foundation Project". apache.org. Retrieved 2019-09-16.
^ Anthony III (2008). Ajax: The Definitive Guide. O'Reilly Media. p. 617. ISBN 9780596554972.
^ "Credits". PHP. Retrieved 2009-09-30.
^ Venus Rising intertwingly.net, 2006.
^ "Standard ECMA-335". Ecma-international.org. Retrieved 2009-09-30.
^ "ongoing · I Like Pie". Tbray.org. 2003-06-23. Retrieved 2009-09-30.
^ "Sam Ruby appointed co-chair for HTML Working Group, effective January 5 from Michael(tm) Smith on 2008-12-15 ([email protected] from December 2008)". Lists.w3.org. Retrieved 2009-09-30.

Sources

Web services visionary - an interview with Sam Ruby (IBM developerworks)
Sam Ruby on the O'Reilly Network
SamRuby page on Atom Wiki - accessed February 22, 2006.
Biography: Sam Ruby - from XML Conference and Expo 2003.

External links

Intertwingly - Sam Ruby's weblog (the name is a reference to Ted Nelson's coinage "intertwingularity").
Feed Validator - Sam Ruby's feed validator for Atom and RSS.

[1] "Foundation Project". apache.org. Retrieved 2019-09-16.

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-12-18. Retrieved 2006-02-24.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[3] "Foundation Project". apache.org. Retrieved 2019-09-16.

[4] Anthony III (2008). Ajax: The Definitive Guide. O'Reilly Media. p. 617. ISBN 9780596554972.

[5] "Credits". PHP. Retrieved 2009-09-30.

[6] Venus Rising intertwingly.net, 2006.

[7] "Standard ECMA-335". Ecma-international.org. Retrieved 2009-09-30.

[8] "ongoing · I Like Pie". Tbray.org. 2003-06-23. Retrieved 2009-09-30.

[9] "Sam Ruby appointed co-chair for HTML Working Group, effective January 5 from Michael(tm) Smith on 2008-12-15 ([email protected] from December 2008)". Lists.w3.org. Retrieved 2009-09-30.

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