Spend most of the day playing with Rails. Learning a new technology can be addictive and you can have a really good time (if you are into this kind of things). I haven’t done this for some time (more than a year) and it felt quite refreshing. Learning something new, whether good or bad, offers new ways to see things, opens up the mind. I hope I have the time to do it more often, now that I remembered how good it is!
Rails verdict coming soon!
I went to the Central Florida Software Symposium over the weekend. (It’s a Java conference.) And ALL of the presenters were talking about Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
It sounds like it has some more maturing to do, but in about 6 months it’s going to be huge.
Comment by Michael Sica — June 28, 2005 @ 01:53
Maybe… But 6 months seem a little on the low… 1-3 years sounds more like it. Geeks may know about it, but most IT people I know haven’t even heard of it (then again, what you say about the conference contradicts me).
Comment by Dimitris Giannitsaros — June 28, 2005 @ 03:10
The thing with Ruby and Ruby on Rails is that it’s (allegedly) maturing very quickly. There’s supposed to be a lot of awesome stuff coming out, including the ability to run on a Java JVM. Which is what Bruce Tate is predicting will cause a Ruby explosion, because then IT departments will be able to leverage their existing infrastructure.
Comment by Michael Sica — June 28, 2005 @ 07:08