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This is just huge, big news in the Rails community! Who could of asked for a better holiday gift this year! Or at least something to look forward to in the development world with is slipping, stand still economy. I had a feeling that this might happen, just an itch!

But seriously, this is a huge step forward for the Ruby, Rails and Merb communities. I have talked to many developers who are on the fence about jumping on the train, only afraid to do so, cause of a few ranking post about how “terrible” and how “it can’t scale” for Rails. Now with Rails and Merb merging and forming one team, this will squash a lot of the doubters out there and hopefully be the final push down the path of happy coders!

The Rails team is stating a potential pre-release around mid-year next year, maybe before Rails Conference in Las Vegas. Great timing :). This could lead to a wider acceptance of Rails and open source projects in the enterprise world.

More to come! This is a huge step forward for Rails and Ruby and Merb!

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How many programmers have you worked with in the past, or now, that fear the command line?

“I need my editor, my GUI editor, otherwise I am worthless”

How many times have you heard that from junoir level programmers, or worse yet, the seasoned professional, who has become lazy and bored on ones job. If you come from an unix world, you are very familiar with your command prompt or terminal, but the windows people, well, lets just say, they usually do not know of a console or command prompt but only a GUI interface to everything and anything.

Yes, the GUI editors to have their place. Yes, they do speed up processes at times. Yes, they are NEEDED. I am not saying they are the root of all evil in the programming world, just a cause of laziness and lack of understanding.

Many developers/engineers/programmers should become friends with their console window. Not just be a GUI jockey, but really understand the inner workings of their trade. The blinking cursor is your friend, not your enemy. How many programmers know how to compile a C# project from the command line? Worse yet, how many know how to show a directory listing?

One great think I love about the console is the ability to create small little task that you can run with a batch script, semi-automate repetative task or file creation for projects.

“The goal is to work smart, not just hard”

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But, I did…

What did I do, well I sold all of my computers (Dell) in order to change over to Apple hardware. Why you might ask? Am I crazy, one for being an MS developer and selling my MS based computers? Naw, just crazy and just forward thinking. While MS technologies have been my bread and butter for several years now, I just needed a fresh environment and not Vista (been there did that).

Here are a few reason:

1. I like Apple OSX

2. VMware Fusion is absolutely amazing, and I can virtualize Windows XP or Vista flawlessly.

3. Open Source (Ruby, Python & others). I have always been interested in various open source technologies so why not.

4. Linux/Unix/MacOS connection. Yes I love the command prompt. I do not need a GUI to do everything for me. Click Click Click done. Typing is a must, must know what is “really” going on.

VMware Fusion

What an amazing application. VMware out did themselves with this product. Truely an amazing virtualization product for the MAC. I currently run Windows XP, with Visual Studio, SQL Server and the whole other bunch of tools that I require for MS ASP.NET development. I choose XP since the memory requirements are lower, but I am finding that I may soon have to change to Vista/Win2K8 in order to use a lot of the upcoming and new technologies that MS is releasing such as Azure Services.

Open Source

As a developer, I am constantly looking at new technologies and existing ones to new methods or ideas on how to solve a problem. One problem I find with MS is how narrow minded many of the developers are, they only know MS methods and processes and never have looked outside that realm. Most say, “MS is my paycheck, why other looking at other ways”. Basically a closed minded developer, somebody I would never hire.

Damn good looking computer

Yes, the MAC is just a great looking computer, with many great “working” accessories. Something Windows-based machines haven’t accomplished yet.

I think if Microsoft did the same exact thing that Apple, producing their own hardware, the number of issues with Vista would have been reduced 10 fold.

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I am finally starting up my Code For Web blog!!!

Why? Well there is some cool stuff going on in the web world and I figured I would share my thoughts…

I just got back from a few Microsoft MSDN events, discussing the future of .NET Technologies. I will be posting some of my thoughts about the event in the next few days.

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