honza

What the fuck is the point of this?!

I love how Steve's articles get rediscovered and resubmitted over and over.

Good. I thought we were merging.

What a douche.

Why are you telling us?

I will.

Oh yes, I have read Steve's post about a hundred times.

Wait a few years, and thanks to Github you'll see what the open source community is really capable of.

This is all such bullshit.

I agree with the fact that Eclipse is excellent for Java, and unusable for anything else.

vim

Yes, please.

I disagree. It doesn't look very well-organized. Python's docs are much cleaner.

There are a lot of interesting Javascript frameworks to explore. Contributing to those is challenging, so I would start with writing plugins for those. Learn how to make a simple jQuery plugin. You must have worked with some in the past. Look it up on Github. They usually have their issues listed, pick an easy one, and try to fix it. Start with small fixes. Read a lot of code. Poke around.

I do use Thunderbird, and it's working OK I guess. I just really like the UI of web Gmail. I'm not so sure if I like the idea of forwarding all of my mail places.

I know. I'm not very creative when it comes to naming my projects. Sorry. Suggestions?

Yes. Check out this video: http://vimeo.com/10514466

I'm not familiar with Rails, but in Django you are 100% tied to SQL databases. There are some efforts to make talk to NoSQL databases (like App Engine). Google actually gave up those efforts.

In Rails, I believe the database backend can be either. Look at Twitter - their using Cassandra.

To answer the title question: a hundred times yes!

I'm sick of all the start-ups thinking that they need to get money from investors to buy Apple computers, and make great apps in Ruby on Rails.