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By: What’s it like to take the Pragmatic Rails Studio? « Curt’s Comments

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 03:08:47 +0000

[...] I have often wondered whatâ€™s its like to take the Pragmatic Rails Studio, how Dave and Mike approach the teaching of Ruby and Rails. If you have wondered the same thing, then youâ€™re in luckâ€”John Nunemaker just posted an excellent three-part series detailing his three day experience at the recent Studio in Chicago. [...]

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By: John Nunemaker

John Nunemaker — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:50:16 +0000

@Clint – It was nice meeting you too. I wish I was heading to RailsConf, but unfortunately I’m not. I will be following closely online though.

By: Clint Pidlubny

Clint Pidlubny — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:12:30 +0000

Hey John. Good description of the day. I have to agree with you about being in the middle. Currently I do ASP.NET development, have done classic ASP and PHP, but I really enjoy XHTML and CSS and a little design. What draws me to RoR is that you’re not required to get deep into the programming to build good apps with cool features. You can if you want and Ruby actually makes me want to, but it isn’t necessary.

It was good meeting you. See you at RailsConf??

By: John Nunemaker

John Nunemaker — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:32:32 +0000

@Brent - I have looked a bit at python. I think ruby just seems more human like. It feels like you are talking, not programming and I like that. I feel that Rails is far more mature as of now. It has like a year on Django. Also, I watched the entire Snakes and Rubies movie. That was pretty interesting if you want to compare the two.

By: Brent O'Connor

Brent O'Connor — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:17:55 +0000

The conference sounds pretty fun. I’m in the same boat being a Jake of all Trades.

I’ve played with Rails a little and have also started playing with Django. So far I like Django better from the stand point that it uses Python and I like Python’s syntax a lot better than Ruby’s.

I would be interesed to know if you have played with Django that much and if so why you went the other way and chose Rails / Ruby to work with.

By: John Nunemaker

John Nunemaker — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:50:53 +0000

@Nola – I am from South Bend so I get pretty much the same temp range.

@Jaime – It’s worth going to the conference simply to experience the other side. On top of that though, it’s nice to meet several other people as excited about this stuff as I am.

By: Jaime

Jaime — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 21:36:24 +0000

Thanks for the notes. I am glad to hear that the conference is going well. I too, am always surprised by people that are “one or the other”. I have always been the Jack of all Trades (and unfortunately master of none), but it seems that the majority of geeks out there are definitely wired one way, and one way only.

Looking forward to more feedback on the course.

By: Nola

Nola — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 15:34:18 +0000

Sounds like alot of fun!! Too bad you are here during the dang COLD! … was nicer a few weeks ago..