From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2005-04-03T08:06:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Respect and Disappointment

* Francis Hwang <sera@fhwang.net> [0402 16:02]:
> 
> On Mar 31, 2005, at 2:31 PM, Dick Davies wrote:

> >'what the hell does the developers personality have to do with your 
> >choice
> >of tools?'

> Talking more theoretically: It does matter. Most software is a process, 
> not a product.
> 
> If you're doing anything interesting, a new software lib is not going 
> to do 100% of what you need. Even a heavily patched, highly used 
> framework like Rails. So you'll need to submit patches or bug reports 
> and generally communicate with the folks that can make the changes. 
> (You can always patch yourself, of course, but for some gnarly bugs 
> that can slow a newbie down quite a bit.) You'd like to know that those 
> people are considerate and responsive and have a little bit of 
> humility.

I've submitted a few patches to Rails, and I did'nt have to create them in
SubEthaEdit.

DHH has the right to be as opinionated as anyone else in my book. I've never
met an unpredjudiced individual, at least he's honest about his preferences.

I'm more bothered about his love of MySQL personally, but my patches to the 
postgresql side of things are handled promptly - I don't even have to wear
the special elephant armband on weekends :)


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