It is surely inspiring to hear this. I am now actively “alluring” friends to
enter the Ruby world. Although my “corporate endeavor” seems (temporarily)
blocked.
I feel that it make talk long way for Ruby to gain a decent “share” of the
programming lanugage market. One question my colleague asked me is: how many
companies are using Ruby? He said that since Python is 10 years old, and
Microsoft is using Python, so it is good… It is our task to grow this ruby
community.
Being a “pragmatic programmer” I regret I can’t contribute more to Ruby, as
you guru hackers do. However, all my friends seems really impressed by my
efficiency when programming in ruby. I think that’s what Ruby need – more
and more people using ruby and love ruby.
Regards,
Shannon
···
Fellow Ruby Miners,
It has been slightly more than a year since I’ve embarked on my
wonderful journey to Rubyland, and I’ve been loving every second of it.
Ruby brings back the fun into the once dreary life of programming just
like Linux brings back the fun to using the computer.
Having done 3 commercial (paid-for) projects (albeit small) in pure Ruby
gives me the notion that Ruby can make it in the commercial development
world. Just to give a small beacon of hope to those who is (or planning
to) push for the use of Ruby in your respective projects, GO FOR IT!!
You be glad you did…
My advise is to start small. Use Ruby on small sub-projects first; my
first one was a web-based custom report for a complex telco fraud
management system. After 3 months part-time, not only did I achieved my
goals but my little web-based custom reports, turned out to be a real
decent decision support system, with a little bit of data-mining
features to boot!! Boy, was the customer impressed…
A final word of thanks to all the Ruby hackers and gurus all round the
world who has made this possible.
Of course to Matz: Domo Arigato Gozaimasu!
p.s. I get a kick when people ask me “what the heck is a ruby miner?”
refering to my sig…
It is surely inspiring to hear this. I am now actively “alluring” friends to
enter the Ruby world. Although my “corporate endeavor” seems (temporarily)
blocked.
I feel that it make talk long way for Ruby to gain a decent “share” of the
programming lanugage market. One question my colleague asked me is: how many
companies are using Ruby?
I don’t know how many companies are using Ruby, but as I mentioned in a
recent post, you can get some idea of which companies are using Ruby by
looking at the email addresses of folks who post.
Some of the more recognizable ones:
Intel, Agilent, NOAA, NASA
(I’m sure more could be added)
He said that since Python is 10 years old, and
Microsoft is using Python, so it is good… It is our task to grow this ruby
community.
Where is Microsoft using Python? Perhaps you’re thinking of ActiveState.
It could be that some folks are playing with Python at M$. Recently Matz
met with someone from Microsoft so it could be that someone at Microsoft
is playing with Ruby too.
Being a “pragmatic programmer” I regret I can’t contribute more to Ruby, as
you guru hackers do. However, all my friends seems really impressed by my
efficiency when programming in ruby. I think that’s what Ruby need – more
and more people using ruby and love ruby.
“Or perhaps the truth is less interesting than the facts?”
Amy Weiss (accusing theregister.co.uk of engaging in ‘tabloid journalism’)
Senior VP, Communications
Recording Industry Association of America
It is surely inspiring to hear this. I am now actively “alluring”
friends to enter the Ruby world. Although my “corporate endeavor” seems
(temporarily) blocked.
Don’t give up.
I feel that it make talk long way for Ruby to gain a decent “share” of
the programming lanugage market. One question my colleague asked me is:
how many companies are using Ruby? He said that since Python is 10 years
Companies using Ruby?
You know my email address, right?
old, and Microsoft is using Python, so it is good… It is our task to
grow this ruby community.
Being a “pragmatic programmer” I regret I can’t contribute more to Ruby,
But you can. You can by using and developing on Ruby. Sharing your code
with friends, and demonstrating the results to your peers and managers.
Most of all, spread the word.
For HTML::Table, I’d suggest using something like Amrita-- its ability to
represent complex data in HTML/XML format is very, very flexible-- especially
for tables. It’s definitely not the same API, but it’s extremely powerful.
