Drivin’ That Train . . .
Sorry . . . I couldn’t help myself. I had to make the Dead reference given I wanted to talk about Rails!
I had the opportunity to spend about six hours at RailsConf 2007 in Portland last week. Great experience! The show was attended by 1,600 absolute zealots. I arrived at the conference midway through David Heinemeier Hannson’s keynote address. The level of energy and passion in the room (at 9:00 a.m.) during his talk and throughout the day reminded me a lot of the Java community a decade ago. It was quite a contrast from JavaOne (which I attended a week earlier) that was good . . . but so mainstream.
It’s going to be very interesting to see how the market evolves over the next couple of years. If anyone out there attended the show, I’m interested in your feedback on the event and the direction Ruby and Rails are moving.
We were very visible at the show. In addition to Joe McGlynn’s presentation (”Ten Cool Things I Learned on the Path to Rails Enlightenment”), we demonstrated our upcoming IDE for Ruby on Rails development. Check out Steve Trefethen or Joe’s blogs for more info on the product and the beta program.
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Posted by Jim Douglas on May 23rd, 2007 under Uncategorized |
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May 23rd, 2007 at 1:17 pm
I am very proud, Codegear is making a great decision building an IDE for Ruby. Ruby is rising up as the language of the 21st century.
btw i still love delphi, but i am sure i’ll see more ROR when the Ide comes out
go go go CG
May 23rd, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Watch that speed Casey…
May 25th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
While I wholeheartedly respect and agree with CodeGears decision to advance in the ROR marketplace, it must now decide on what to do with its Java strategy with JBuilder. In providing PHP, ROR and Java, CodeGear becomes a multi tools developer but a master of none. Your resources are fragmented on competing technologies. Its not about providing different tools to different developers, rather its providing the best tools to all developers.
Don’t make the same mistake Microsoft made when they provided all those different languages under Visual Studio.
IDL
May 25th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
Is your Ruby product going to be usable or will it be as buggy as your recent PHP product ?
And I notice that you seem to have dropped support for the PHP product.
That is pretty pathetic.
June 8th, 2007 at 5:52 am
Well, 8th of june and still no roadmap at the horizon…
Concerning Ruby, you seem to be like a child looking at a window full of toys just before christmas.. Cool. But we need a Delphi under .NET 2.0/3.0, not a new geek toy.
(to "Delphi loyalist" : providing more than one language under VS is not a mistake, it’s the best IDE idea since decades ! BDS 2005/2006 tried the same thing but with no link between languages and a buggy IDE. What Borland failed can be done very well by other editors, is that you’re problem with this idea ?…).