From: Paul Vudmaska <paul@...>
Date: 2004-05-27T07:50:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on Rails

Sascha Ebach wrote:

>
>
> Dick Davies wrote:
>
>> Sascha Ebach wrote:
>>
>>> I think I would be willing to contribute to such a project, making 
>>> lots a small videos showing how things are done. What is holding me 
>>> back for the moment is the hefty price of the software
>>
>>
>>
>> Has anyone used vnc2swf? It looks similar to the links posted earlier
>>  in the thread (doubt it has sound though).
>
>
> Great. Haven't even heard about it before. You could always record the 
> audio afterwards. You will pay less money upfront, but invest more 
> time. It's great that there is something like that.
>
>>
>>> and the fact that I know  almost nothing about Rails. 
>>
>>
>>
>> You and me (and the rest of the world) both - looks promising
>> though.
>>
>> This time next year we'll be drinking beers on the beach,
>> watching the flaming wreck
>> of J2EE sink beneath the waves, mark my words :)
>
>
> Hey, I will pay for all the beer you can drink if the J2EE ship sinks. 
> But if it doesn't, you have to pay. Deal?
>
> Sascha
>
I'll NOT take that bet because I suppose there are and will be in the 
future those companies that prefer to pay a lot  of money for 
applications - making a choice between accountability and rigor against 
pragmatism and simplicity. Sometime back, as a  development shop for the 
intranet of a large co, we needed to choose between components and 
scripting. We chose scripting and ran rings around other who chose 
components - and especially those who were experimenting w/websphere. 
Our apps were simple data in data out apps so scripting served us well. 
If i were building some superduper banking app i would of course take 
pause and consider more heavily 'big software'. But, in my view, that 
gap is increasingly shrinking as scripting lanuguages become...better. 
So let 'big hardware' do the work and give developers fridays off to 
drink beer.

beer, the breakfast of champions, cheers,paul