State Of Rails 05
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Transcript of State Of Rails 05
The State of
Ruby on Rails
David Heinemeier Hansson
What an amazing year
My disenchantment with my job grows daily. The more I use Rails, the more I dislike the absolute mountain of crap that is J2EE. Certainly I want to do the best I can for Webify but there is no joy in working with J2EE anymore.
So I face quite the quandary: J2EE pays very well. I have been working with Java for 8 years now, have lots of experience and I am essentially at the top of the pecking order of engineers at my current job. To leave the J2EE world would seem to be career suicide.
Mike Perham, Java Developer
It didn’t start out like that
First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
About tadalist, that application is so stupid that I'm wondering how the hell it could have taken him 600 lines to write it. Also, the hugely hyped 'killer application' of RoR, Basecamp, is a total fraud imho.
The screenshots look nice, and are nicely presented. So I did make an account and started using it. And honestly, everything they say is true, it sets itself apart in simplicity. Not difficult to write that in a few weeks.
Geert Bevin, Developer of .
then you win
150,000 downloads
400+ professionals
from 55 countries
Envy
But why?
Absolute competitionis not an absolute good
Just enough to make it worth it, not enough
to discourage
Stories that people were ready to hear
Now what?
1.0
Tools in the chain
SwitchTower
Gauge
Conductor
Creating an industry
Getting organized
David Heinemeier Hansson (nextangle)Florian Weber (csshsh)
Jamis Buck (minam)Jeremy Kemper (bitsweat)Leon Breedt (bitserf)
Marcel Molina Jr. (noradio)Michael Koziarski (nzkoz)Nicholas Seckar (ulysses)
Sam Stephenson (sam-)Scott Barron (htonl)
Thomas Fuchs (madrobby)Tobias Luetke (xal)
Web team, sysadmin
RailsConf?
Questions?