From: Jared Nuzzolillo <onceuponapriori@...>
Date: 2005-08-17T06:12:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for my new business?

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All, thanks again! All of your advice is very much appreciated. Feel free t=
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share more.

Ryan,

That was my meetup group :-) ! No one ever joined and they started charging=
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me money to have it so I closed it down.

Someone contacted me off-list that lives in Miami and would be willing
to consider
working full-time as a Ruby programmer. So the pool must not be as dry as I=
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originally feared it might be.

I would love to attend anything regarding Ruby that you might want to do.=
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I'd be willing to assist in any way. I've been upset that there isn't a=20
South Florida Ruby User group for quite some time now. Let me know if you'd=
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like to try to put something together. Failing that, it is nice to know tha=
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a Ruby guru is not too far away should I need some help! :-)

Between hurricanes and overpricing, it would be hard to convince someone to=
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move out here. I agree that a good programmer can pick up Ruby quickly and=
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be efficient with it. I think I could probably convince my partners that an=
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expert programmer coming from another language could get up to speed in a=
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few weeks. I just hope they are willing to trust me on this. I think I will=
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at least try to take the risk and push the telecommuting option as an=20
'insurance policy'.

Thanks,
Jared Nuzzolillo

On 8/16/05, Ryan Leavengood <mrcode@netrox.net> wrote:
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> Jared Nuzzolillo said:
> [snip]Someone did start a South Florida
> Ruby Meetup Group (on meetup.com <http://meetup.com>) at some point (with=
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> just himself as a
> member when I saw it), but it seems to be gone now. I think that person
> was in Ft Lauderdale (I live in Boynton Beach, near West Palm Beach.)
> [snip]
> Anyhow, unless some people speak up on this list who also live here, I
> think the South Florida Ruby programmer population is pretty small. But
> despite that, I still think you are on the right track in wanting to use
> Ruby, even if the local population of programmers is small. I think being
> an early adopter is an advantage in this case, and either way you can hel=
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> solve that chicken and egg problem I mentioned above.
> [snip]
> While it is certainly nice to have local talent, I think telecommuting is
> perfectly fine, especially if Ruby is the main development language. So a=
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> others have said, I would try to sell that to your partners.
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> Hmmm, if you have a six to eight month time frame, maybe is now the time
> for me to start teaching some South Florida Ruby seminars, hehehe. I coul=
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> get you some nicely trained Ruby programmers if I did that :)
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> Regarding relocating, the problem we have with this area is partially the
> whole hurricane thing, like Phil Thompson mentioned, but more importantly
> is the cost of housing. As you probably know it has been skyrocketing,
> which can make people hesitant to move unless they are coming from even
> more expensive markets. If a software developer making a good salary can
> barely afford a house, something is wrong, but that is a entire different
> discussion which I won't go into here.
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> Finally as Daniel Nugent mentioned, any good programmer should be able to
> pick up a new language fairly quickly, and I think Ruby in particular is
> pretty easy to pick up.
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> [snip]Ryan
>

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