Re: We're having a little brown bag on Ruby

Post #178,739 by JimWeirich 10/11/04 6:55:34 AM Reply	Re: We're having a little brown bag on Ruby We're having a little brown bag on Rubytoday with Dave Thomas, author of "Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer's Guide". Given that the today referenced above was Oct 8, and [link\|http://www.robotcoop.com/weblog/24/dave-thomas-talks-about-ruby-at-amazon\|this], am I right in assuming you are part of the Amazon crowd? Cool. So, what were your impressions of the talk? -- -- Jim Weirich jim@weirichhouse.org [link\|http://onestepback.org\|http://onestepback.org] --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)
Post #178,740 by CRConrad 10/11/04 7:36:30 AM Reply	Shhh! Anonymous Todd works at some other... ...outfit entirely, that he calls only "BigRiverBooks"; I haven't the faintest idea what could be meant by that. [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Your lies are of Microsoftian Scale and boring to boot. Your 'depression' may be the closest you ever come to recognizing truth: you have no 'inferiority complex', you are inferior - and something inside you recognizes this. - [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=71575\|Ashton Brown]
Post #178,771 by tuberculosis 10/11/04 12:55:46 PM Reply	I might have been there I was "the" guy who raised his hand when asked if anyone knew anything about WebObjects. I thought the talk was rather good (in that Thomas is definitely a "fun" speaker) from an introduction perspective. The bogging down in what is and is not "strong typing" from "those who do not get it" was a bit of a drag. I thought Thomas handled it well by simply caving on the point and moving on. I would have liked to see more rails examples. That's the kind of development we do so that would have been the most interesting to our crowd. That was lovely cheese. --Wallace, The Wrong Trousers
Post #178,774 by JimWeirich 10/11/04 1:14:57 PM Reply	Re: I might have been there Dave certainly is ranked near the top of my list of speakers to listen to. I would have liked to see more rails examples. That's the kind of development we do so that would have been the most interesting to our crowd. I've done one simple Rails app (demo at [link\|http://onestepback.org:3030\|http://onestepback.org:3030]). It took a couple of evenings to throw together. Source code is in the CVS repository at [link\|http://rubyforge.org/projects/storycards\|http://rubyforge.org/projects/storycards] (however, keep in mind this was my first Rails project and I certainly did some things the hard way). Rails is certainly getting a lot of attention right now. David Heinemeier Hansson's talk at [link\|http://www.rubycentral.org/conference/\|RubyConf(2004)] was one of the most anticipated talk of the conference. -- -- Jim Weirich jim@weirichhouse.org [link\|http://onestepback.org\|http://onestepback.org] --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth (in a memo to Peter van Emde Boas)

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