steve.jessica-and-steve.com — "Don’t know why I’ve felt more like writing about ‘soft’ things like this, but given events at work for the past few months (office closing, high attrition rate, acquisition, end of product development cycle…) I guess I’ve just been more contemplative than usual (then again, with just 3 articles I’m not sure what ‘usual’ is"
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caseyucfSep 17, 2006
you're not that funny really.
raccetturaSep 17, 2006
"1 decent developer is worth more the 20 average ones."One decent developer means I can get away with hiring 20 average ones to work with him/her.
theredbicycleSep 17, 2006
@transeunte "Everyone who thinks this guy's problem is just grammar: are you on crack?"No, we just have to start with the basics first.
ntufarSep 17, 2006
Why did you bury him? He is totally right even though he needs a spelling lesson.
adolfojpSep 17, 2006
Ruby on rails is great as long as you don't need unicode.If your users don't need characters like ñáéíóúü then it will do just fine.If your user base expands to a world that does, then you have wasted all of that development time on a platform that is yet ready for the world.(Yes, I know that you can do workarounds, but the workarounds themselves are not a solution to the unicode problem.)
brd6644Sep 17, 2006
Oh, one other thought. There aren't really a whole lot of "easy ways" to be come a better developer. People who are good at what they do are usually that way because they enjoy what they're doing. If you don't have a passion for programming - if refactoring code into something slick and extensible doesn't bring a smile to your face - you might be in the wrong job.
mrkiteSep 18, 2006
I saw #1 and immediately buried the article. Ruby is a horrible language, especially when trying to teach programming. That's all we need is more lazy programmers.
echoicSep 19, 2006
Stopped reading at #1. Please kill yourself.