From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-03-22T03:11:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Support for 10x Productivity Increase with Rails!

Kloubakov, Yura wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Curt Hibbs [mailto:curt@hibbs.com]
> > Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 12:13
>
> [snip]
>
> > Justin took 4 months to reimplement this web app using Spring
> > and Hibernate.
>
> [snip]
>
> > Recently, Justin decided to re-implement with Ruby on Rails.
> > Bruce said that this took a total of 5 days ...
>
> [snip]
>
> > Despite being an expert in the best-of-breed Java frameworks
> > and a novice in the Ruby on Rails frameworks, he still managed an 8x
> > improvement in productivity ...
>
> Is not it more like 24x?

I was assuming a 5 day week and that during those four months he actually
had *real* weekends with his friends and family.

Curt