Whatever you think of Ruby on Rails technically -- even if you prefer another language or development framework -- you do have to admit that Rails has gained huge acceptance in a short period of time. In this CIO article, Hal Fulton, author of The Ruby Way, explains what the programming community did right, and how others can learn from it.
estherschindler wrote: > Whatever you think of Ruby on Rails technically -- even if you prefer > another language or development framework -- you do have to admit that > Rails has gained huge acceptance in a short period of time. In this > CIO article, Hal Fulton, author of The Ruby Way, explains what the > programming community did right, and how others can learn from it.
One important point the author dances around is that many products owe their market share to relentless marketing, not their quality. This implies that a successful Free Software must be twice as good as a commercial one to be thought half as good in the trade press.
estherschindler wrote: > Whatever you think of Ruby on Rails technically -- even if you prefer > another language or development framework -- you do have to admit that > Rails has gained huge acceptance in a short period of time. In this > CIO article, Hal Fulton, author of The Ruby Way, explains what the > programming community did right, and how others can learn from it.
On 7/26/07, Hal Fulton <hal9...@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
> estherschindler wrote: > > Whatever you think of Ruby on Rails technically -- even if you prefer > > another language or development framework -- you do have to admit that > > Rails has gained huge acceptance in a short period of time. In this > > CIO article, Hal Fulton, author of The Ruby Way, explains what the > > programming community did right, and how others can learn from it.
Robert Dober wrote: >> Oops, I didn't realize Esther had already posted this. Sorry >> for double announcement. > Indeed you could have been more careful, now I have to read it *twice*!!!
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Robert Dober wrote: > On 7/27/07, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.br...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 7/26/07, dbl...@wobblini.net <dbl...@wobblini.net> wrote: >>> Hi --
>>> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Phlip wrote:
>>>> Robert Dober wrote:
>>>>>> Oops, I didn't realize Esther had already posted this. Sorry >>>>>> for double announcement.
>>>>> Indeed you could have been more careful, now I have to read it *twice*!!!
>>>> Not very DRY, guys! (-;
>>> Hal didn't repeat himself -- he repeated someone else :-)
>> DROP. Don't Repeat Other People > DRAIN > Don't Repeat Anything In No case
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