How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or Code Ninja

http://ontwik.com/ruby/how-to-become-a-famous-rails-developer-ruby-rockstar-or-code-ninja/

by ahmicro • 15 years ago

32 21 15 years ago

Uchikoma• 15 years ago

In other news: How to become just a developer

lolizbak• 15 years ago

How to work in team, how to understand a vision, how to compromise, how to lead, how to educate, how to accept others' education, how to accept to be wrong, how to justify when you're right, ...

Ninjas, gurus, rockstars, ... isn't that just 2006 buzz words for biz pple recruiting tech pple ?

jarin• 15 years ago

What else is left? Pirate? Astronaut? Clown? Zombie?

(also, it is spelled "people")

petervandijck2• 15 years ago

Rockstars, ninjas, gurus. It's all insecurity if you ask me.

phlux• 15 years ago

Let me sing you a song about how my sword brings inner enlightenment.

petervandijck2• 15 years ago

Now songsmith-ing, there's a skill!

ghurlman• 15 years ago

I can't tell if this guy is just nervous, or a terrible presenter. A little of both, I'd guess.

loboman• 15 years ago

Possibly just nervous

wtn• 15 years ago

I think he looks more nervous because he's looking down to read off the paper. Maybe extemporaneous speech would have looked smoother?

choxi• 15 years ago

he gave a talk at RailsConf '10 and was much better. I also don't think he's that bad though, public speaking's hard

klochner• 15 years ago

it improves around minute 10, that's where he stops the humorous intro & starts talking about being a developer.

SingAlong2• 15 years ago

I've begun to dislike Youtube because of the fact that it doesn't offer downloads.

I dug up the video on blip.tv. If you are interested http://railsconf.blip.tv/file/2086330 (yes it allows download).

SkyMarshal• 15 years ago

If you're using Firefox or IE, Flashget or Ant solve that problem nicely:

http://www.flashget.com/

http://www.ant.com/video-downloader

SingAlong2• 15 years ago

I use a nice Awk script https://github.com/pkrumins/gnu-awk-youtube-downloader to download youtube videos (a dozen thanks to the creator) when i don't find a downloadable version elsewhere.

jbcrail• 15 years ago

The speaker put the transcript for his talk on Github: https://gist.github.com/0a2655aed6a26fa15a02.

DanielRibeiro• 15 years ago

The speaker is also one of Github's founder.

jayliew• 15 years ago

I'm voting that the original poster should have removed the word 'rockstar' and 'ninja' from the title, specific for HN. Just sayin.

dev_Gabriel• 15 years ago

Stop talking, start doing. After a while you'll become a ninja/guru/rockstar/superstar/ubber nerd/super geek/jesus/zombie/whatever you wanna call yourself.

baberuth• 15 years ago

If its going to sound like he's reading, I'd rather just read the it.

Delivering a fully written out speech word for word in a compelling manner is really hard, so I don't mean that as a criticism, but it was a little hard to listen to.

How to become a famous Rails Developer, Ruby Rockstar or Code Ninja

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