Zen Machine, about
October 7, 2007
The name ‘Zen Machine’ is a reference to the Judo (martial art) philosophy of maximum efficiency with minimum effort. It really bugs me how much time is spent on language flame wars, bloated frameworks, code reimplementation and useless discussion about what should just be ‘means to an end’.
I’m interested in distributed systems and new technologies in programming languages. I dig dynamic languages as ruby, php and perl, not only for hacks but for “real” production grade systems. I see them as a relief from years working with C programming. Even loving ANSI C, and using it for some projects, I’m a firm believer in the ‘right tool for the job’ concept.
Actually I work as a system programmer/engineer in an ISP and do some consultant gigs in my spare time.
In 2005 I wrote my first book “Programacao Avancada em Linux”, which was only printed in portuguese. For some time, I had a monthly column at IDG Now Brasil, and in some local magazines, but now I just keep writing for a future new book.
This website was inspired by Jay R. Fink from systhread who does a suberb job as technical writer and C hacker.
