About the Author

Russ Olsen is a software engineer with more than twenty-five years of experience. Russ has built software in such diverse areas as CAD/CAM, GIS, document management, and enterprise integration. Currently, he is involved in building SOA service discovery and security solutions for large enterprises.

Russ has been involved in Ruby since 2002 and was the author of ClanRuby, an early attempt to bring multimedia capabilities to Ruby. He is currently a committer on a number of open source projects, including UDDI4R.

Russ's technical articles have been featured on Javalobby, O'Reilly's On Java, and the Java Developer's Journal Web site.

Russ holds a B.S. from Temple University and lives with his family, two turtles, and an indeterminate number of guppies outside of Washington, D.C.

You can reach Russ via e-mail at [email protected].