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I'm Russ Olsen and if you ask I'd probably say that I'm a engineer. Software mostly, those in my youth I dabbled in mechanical engineering until I found that I had absolutely no talent for it.

Books

I like to write and have written a number of technical books.

• The most recent is Getting Clojure, a step by step guide to the ideas behind my favorite functional programming language, Clojure.

• Then there is Eloquent Ruby, which is a guide to writing idiomatic Ruby. Eloquent Ruby was an instant hit in the Ruby and Rails community and is one of the standard works for Ruby developers.

• My first book was Design Patterns in Ruby which is a complete reworking of the classic Gang of Four patterns for a modern dynamic programming language.

• I was also involved in a small way with the 3rd edition of The Ruby Way.

Interviews and Articles

I've also done a fair number of interviews and articles over the years. Possibly the most popular one to date is:

• The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got.

I'm also quite proud of:

• How We Work: Distributed

But I have done a bunch:

• In Conversation: Russ Olsen

• Interview: Russ Olsen on "Eloquent Ruby"

• RubyNation Mini-Interview: Russ Olsen

• Interview with Russ Olsen author Eloquent Ruby at GOTO Chicago 2014

• An Interview with Michael Hartl: Ruby on Rails, the "Magic" Problem, and the Higgs Boson

• Refactoring in Ruby: An Interview with Bill Wake and Kevin Rutherford

• 033 RR Book Club – Eloquent Ruby with Russ Olsen

Conference Talks

I also do a fair bit of public speaking. My most popular talk by far is:

• To the Moon!.

But I'm also quite proud of:

• Eloquent Explanations

Lately I've been doing more and more Clojure and my day job now is with Cognitect the company behind Clojure. Among other things I edit and do the intros and outros for our company podcast, The Cognicast.

You can always find me at russ@russolsen.com or on Twitter at @russolsen