David Heinemeier Hansson created Ruby on Rails, the popular Web application development framework, as a side-project of a side-project. The year was 2003, and Hansson was studying at the Copenhagen Business School and working on client projects. In his “spare” time, he devoted about 10 hours a week to developing Basecamp, one of four web-based productivity applications offered by the company he
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