Yeah Peter. Don't worry about it. He said he'd spend five years working on bringing coding to kids, and by my best approximation, he did that. Now he's done. He has a family, a life, and seems he probably has children too. The intensity with which he worked on ruby projects was never sustainable. I expect his priorities simply shifted to other things.
Really though, he's just a man. A man who brought us many great things, sure, but still a man. The important thing is that we take note of the wonderment created in his wake, and continue to create things of equivalent or greater value. It's our job to push ruby forward now. It's our job to push computing forward. — Jenna On 24/08/2010, at 10:32 PM, Peter Retief wrote: > I hope _why is OK, I don't care if he wants to change his career but > it would be nice if I were to know that nothing bad happened to him > (Gone camping?) > Give us a sign :) > > On 24 August 2010 14:29, Dave Everitt <dever...@innotts.co.uk> wrote: >> @Jenna: love the bit about 'children had no good way to make their own eBay >> competitors' :-) >> >>>> 2. encourages experimentation with a low entry threshold, >>> >>> Did you find the extremely high level of fun interesting obscure ruby >>> hacks to be offputting at first? I did. >> >> I'd been using Ruby and Perl for awhile, so I just found out how to make >> things do what I wanted (then spent loads of time on the Markaby and CSS :-) >> >>>> 3. can also handle serious web development, >>> >>> Yup, so long as you don't let anyone know you've turned to the dark side. >> >> I have a spare soul for the dark side to purchase, but it still has firm >> ethics. >> >>>> 4. doesn't take itself too seriously. >>> >>> Sometimes I wonder about that one, but the spirit of rebellion against >>> serious business still seems strong. ^_^ >> >> I see it more as a spirit of experimentation and a deliberate (cartoon) >> foxing around to one side of the boring everyday, but yes, _Why's surreal >> humour got me into Ruby in the first place (although *none* of the 7 >> students I introduced to the Poignant Guide got it at all, although one did >> buy Chris Pine's book) and from there... >> >>>> The missing part in the tutorial for me is deployment. I have yet to >>>> deploy anything public! But that's anther post. >>> >>> Hope this helps: http://camping.creativepony.com/Book:-Publishing-an-App >>> :) >> >> Yes, it does - thanks, that's great! Now I've just got to set up our VPS >> accordingly (and document the process as simply as possible)... I might also >> have a go at adding details for Heroku (tried out Sinatra on it, worked >> fine) for my 'Oracle of everyday things' Camping project. Unless someone >> else writes it up first. >> >>> Anyone have experience with Heroku or jRuby + App Engine want to fill in >>> the blanks? >> >> @Aria: 'edge-of-zany' - definitely. Or at least, off the beaten path. BTW >> Nice vegan recipes! With Jenna, Seems Camping might be the framework of >> choice for vegans (or, like me, totally-lactose-intolerant vegetarians)... >> >> Dave E. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Camping-list mailing list >> Camping-list@rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list >> > _______________________________________________ > Camping-list mailing list > Camping-list@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list _______________________________________________ Camping-list mailing list Camping-list@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
