Salam, saya Andre, lulusan ParaHyangan, sampai skrg masih pakai Java. 
Saat ini saya kerja di Metadome Mobitech, sebuah CP asal Kuala Lumpur. 
Di luar itu juga saya freelance. Dulu kenal id-ruby ini dari kawan yang 
kebetulan juga bertanggung jawab atas keracunan 'ruby on rails' dan 
'agile development' atas saya ^^. Sejauh ini saya masih blm fokus ke 
ruby ataupun ke rails, alasan awal saya consider ruby on rails tergolong 
absurd, yaitu mencari alternatif supaya bisa deploy e-commerce dengan 
murah, dan logo rails di sebuah hostingan di indo cukup mengganggu benak 
saya sehingga memutuskan untuk menerima tawaran dari kawan saya untuk 
blajar ruby on rails. kendala saya terbesar di ruby itu dynamic nya, 
soalnya dah terbiasa static nya c/c++ dan java, sekalipun pernah blajar 
php, tapi dinamic nya ruby benar2 beda. Yang bikin saya paling bingung 
itu munculnya method2 otomatis kayak find_by_ yang langsung ada begitu 
ada member dari sebuah class ActiveRecord, tll banyak magic di dalamnya 
yang sulit dinalar kalau dari sudut pandang static. Dan sempat agak 
bingung juga soalnya kl mo dibilang Principle of Least Surprise, as I 
got surprised almost every time I learn new things on Rails.

Di sini, suasananya cukup nyaman dan bersahabat, nggak ada language 
ataupun technology bashing. Penuh dengan ilmu2 sharingan para sesepuh ^^ 
its a good community I say and I look forward to know all of you. Sorry 
kmrn gak bisa datang di kopdarnya karena abis cabut gigi dan ternyata 
bengkaknya lama nggak hilang2. Semoga kopdar berikutnya lebih baik lagi.

-Andre-

Rie! wrote:
> in Bahasa Indonesia:
>
> Rasanya sudah lumayan lama Mod (=Moderator) nggak welcoming
> temen-temen id-ruby yang gabung (walau dalam hati ngharepin rasanya
> udah ngerasa pada diwelcome lewat file otomatis sih). Untuk
> menghidupkan suasana, mari kita saling mempererat komunikasi dengan
> saling ngenalin siapa siapa aja yang uda pada gabung disini, walau
> nggak secara langsung lewat kopdar (=kopi darat/gathering/meet-up),
> jadi kita bisa bisa aja posting tentang siapa anda, ngapain aja, tau
> id-ruby dari mana trus motivasi bergabung. ini sengaja saya pisahkan
> beda dengan yang di form member baru karena ada data-data private yang
> tentu harus seizin yang bersangkutan kemudian baru boleh tersebar di
> internet.
>
> Mungkin ada baiknya jika kita mengambil sedikit waktu untuk saling
> mengenal kepada semua anggota id-ruby.
>
> - Siapa Anda?
> - Dari mana Anda berasal?
> - Apakah Anda bekerja sendiri (Freelance)? Menjalankan konsultansi?
> Ngantor? Mahasiswa? di?
> - Dari mana Anda mengetahui ID-Ruby?
> - Hal-hal yang ingin Anda sharing berikut kesan dan pesan Anda mengenai 
> ID-Ruby?
> - I look forward to learning more about all of you. :-)
>
> Mungkin bisa saya mulai dari saya sendiri ya, kalo saya panggil aja :
> "Rie!", jadi nggak kayak bule-bule itu kalo manggil selalu gini :
> "arie" (dengan "R" yang ilang). Ngapainnya : saya Application
> Developer. Tau ID-Ruby dulu itu dari Steve (Steven Haryanto / Bapak
> Milis Indonesia sekaligus ID-Ruby Creator). Motivasi bergabung :
> Pengennya saya diajarin sama teman2x disini dan belajar bareng-bareng
> aja (jadi punya sharing partners).
>
> in English:
>
> Because I know there are non-Indonesian and non-Indonesian speakers
> members here on ID-Ruby, I also would like to translate all of my
> paragraphs above in English while still learning, improving, and
> struggling to be much better and better thinker in English.
>
> It's been months that our ID-Ruby Moderator haven't been welcoming
> ID-Ruby New Members manually (although deep in their hearts, they
> would feel it's been done via bunch of automatic files when new
> members joined ID-Ruby). It's time to introduce yourself, so that each
> member who either can meet at ID-Ruby meetup in Indonesia or can't
> meet at ID-Ruby meetup because of several reasons such as no time,
> busy as a family driver or staying in overseas such as in USA, UK,
> Europe, CA, MY, S'pore, etc, etc could get to know each other much
> better, including adding/relating FaceBook.Com friendships,
> Friendsters, LinkedIn.Com, MySpace.Com, Multiply.Com or any other
> community sites if you have ones. We deliberately make this post
> different from new member form because we would avoid publishing
> private data to public / internet wihout his/her permission.
>
> Perhaps we can all take a moment to introduce ourselves to the rest
> of the group.
>
> - Who are you?
> - Where are you from?
> - Do you work for yourself? Run a consultancy? Work for one?
> - How did you hear about ID-Ruby?
> - anything else you want to share with the group...
>
> - I look forward to learning more about all of you. :-)
>
> I'll start from myself, just call me "Rie!" in one syllabel, that's
> the friendliest call to a freaking proud to be an Indonesian like me,
> not like non-Indonesian speakers who usually call me "Arie" in two
> syllables completely without "R" letter incompletely (although it's
> just okay due to their tounges). I'm just a newbie forever who has got
> nothing special but has many cool nice friends around the globe, that
> was all about me, you may ask me if you want more, though. I work as
> an IT Application Developer (only Ruby and also Ruby on Rails) with
> many "bule-bule" (blond guys) here in Kuala Lumpur - MY. I knew
> ID-Ruby from Steve (his full name is Steven Haryanto, many geeks I
> know often call him as an almighty powerful Indonesian Mailing List
> Father, and he's also an ID-Ruby Creator in 2001 where most of us
> still slept in other traditional non-ruby languages and he is
> definitely one of our lovely and full of kindness moderators we got
> here). My join motive was I want senior guys here would teach me to be
> much better and we could learn together regarding fun stuffs we have
> so that we'll become happy-chappy sharing partners.
>
>   

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