smitjel

Very, very nice. Why has it taken this long for jQuery UI to get a quality theme like this?

Now more than ever, give vim + rails.vim a try. You won't bother with bloated IDE's anymore.

You're an idiot if you're not using rvm by now.

My thoughts exactly...I'm sure he'll be carrying extra weight but I still don't see how this is possible given a certain terminal velocity, like you said.

*Edit...wikipedia says current world record is 614 mph set by Joseph Kittinger. He used the head down method in high altitude, less dense air. That's still not supersonic though.

The author isn't factoring in HOW the company writes software...it's not just about what language a company uses. That's a small piece of the puzzle.

What if the company uses an agile approach to development? Maybe they pair program. That would be a little tough for someone to participate in while telecommuting...sure, technically it can be accomplished but that's not really how pair programming is done.

But this broad brush used to paint companies that simply say they don't telecommute as "not getting it" is a little lame.

If your company is obligated to follow regulations like those set forth in something like PCI standards, then devs will certainly not have access to production.

Otherwise, good practice could be to have everything automated in the production env...whatever you're doing on production, make it as scripted/automated as possible. That way, you're forced to examine your processes ahead of time.

"It will be months or even years before you are a productive Rails programmer."

Doesn't that fly in the face of the definition of Rails?

You're asking this question on a site that is "startup focused" which means they aren't going to have a team of 20 developers churning out java byte code...they're going to be using more modern, dynamic languages like Python and Ruby because the popular full-stack frameworks that are behind Python and Ruby are better suited to get ideas off the ground as opposed to the monolithic JEE stack.

This still rings true even today with JEE development...I long for the day I can write ruby for a living.

Peter Cooper rocks!

"Left handed death-grip"? Ah those damn left-handed idiots, always screwing stuff up for everybody else. ;)

I give him an "A" for effort but the higher the vote does not always equal the most interesting. Take yesterday for example...the old spice twitter feed. Wtf?

I must have missed something...how did we jump from questioning Visual Studio to the conclusion that Ruby and .Net developers are solving problems in different domain spaces? There are IDE's for Ruby, good ones. What does that matter though?

I don't know...IE9 isn't close to being released is it?

Sounds more like a competitor to the other eink readers. All I want is a good eink reader anyway. I don't care about videos, touch-screen, internet, 3G...just give me an eink reader with ample memory. I think the Nook wins in that case...

Excellent point.

lojjic, you should illustrate that in the docs somewhere.

No, that strictly depends on how you've designed your site. To have your site look the best in ALL browsers, make subtle use of CSS3 effects. Don't _rely_ on them. If you follow that, you won't be writing off "50%" of your users design-wise.

Awesome points. But keep in mind though that the IE team has really stepped up lately with IE9. IE will no longer be this cancer to web devs anymore. Let's stop wasting the time to make old IE "look pretty" and help people move forward and update (as best they can). Again, good points though.

Yes, I've heard that argument. I even worked at a company that was locked down to IE6...I know all about it.

But again...we're talking about adding overhead to a site JUST for eye candy. Let the boxes be square for IE...is that detrimental to your site's message?

Yes, it's javascript overhead you have to add to your site so that people using IE will be able to see CSS3-like effects. So why add the overhead just so users of IE can have rounded boxes and gradients. Why bother? It's just eye candy...

A question though...why? If people don't care to update IE, do you think they care about rounded boxes, shadows and gradients?

IE9 is supposed to support all this, I think. Let the people that don't want to update live in their "square" world...it doesn't seem like they care anyway.

I saw this in Money mag a couple of months back and thought it was silly...but apparently going old-school is not only cheaper but better quality as well. I think I might try it.

http://moremoney.blogs.money.cnn.com/2010/04/29/spend-less-o...

Wait...6 weeks to become conversant in Ruby? A recent engineering grad (from a top ten school no less) even takes the time to post this question? Why not do a quick google search on learning ruby and find a wealth of free resources on learning ruby and just dive in, like most engineering minds would?

Hmm...I guess that's just me, someone with an engineering degree myself.

http://www.humblelittlerubybook.com/

http://www.sapphiresteel.com/ruby-programming/The-Book-Of-Ru...

http://ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/

I'd like to think that concrete examples of ruby's successful production deployments and higher developer productivity mean more to companies than some blog ramblings.