My work lately has involved managing a lot of common code across three different Rails projects, some of it managed by svn:externals in /lib and some in plugins. So since I've been using ZenTest's autotest (which is very nice with the growl and redgreen plugins in 3.4), naturally I want the lib and vendor/plugin [...]
Yesterday was burned on trying to get our legacy database working again with Rails. I say "again" as we already had things working with a dual db setup - where the legacy stuff was just always there and never needed to be re-created via schema dump and "rake clone_db_structure". The plan was to [...]
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
- Peter F Drucker
I'm reading The Essential Drucker, a compilation of some of the best of Peter Drucker's writings. Drucker had a amazing ability of distilling business to its essentials. He's writing for managers, but managers in the sense that all knowledge workers are increasingly becoming their own managers.
There are a lot of parallels with agile [...]
Tomorrow I'm presenting in Milwaukee and Wednesday in Madison on "Ruby on Rails for Java Programmers". Its going to be a what I hope is a fair comparison between Rails and Java web development, highlighting the sweet spots for Rails and areas where its not currently the best choice.
After these two talks, I think [...]
This Friday is my last day doing Java work for what will probably be a long time. I'm leaving Smart Solutions and the Java Enterprise world to join Seeking Alpha, a financial blog network. I'll be joining Dion and Jim, who are both Madison residents, so although everyone is home office based we'll [...]
Explosion of the Ruby book market - at least sixteen books coming 2006!
Adding Steve Yegge to the A-List of Programmer Bloggers
Via Projectionist:
Michael K. - I just asked a former co worker why he hasn't written an ant task to deploy their app
Michael K. - "dude - they pay me by the hour"
Michael K. - enterprise right there
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