Best Thing (or discipline) in my opinion, is Testing. I was completely stunned/shocked/afraid when I first encountered the idea of testing code. Now, I think it has instilled better practices both for my self and for anyone who adopts a TDD/BDD methodology for their work.
Best Idea (which then became the best app for me) is GitHub. Seriously, who knew a distributed/shared SCM could be so...beautiful! Most inspiring and exciting thing that I learnt was testing all the f****in time and javascript libraries(jQuery in particular) Just my two cents! Cheers, Terj On Jan 14, 4:54 pm, Pete Yandell <[email protected]> wrote: > A few of us (myself, Mike Bailey, Ryan Allen, and Nick Marfleet) got > together at SCT on Monday night, to plan another Ruby Nuby Night. We > bounced around some ideas, and started making a list of topics worth > including. > > As we were doing it, we realised something: we're not nearly as > excited as we were 18 months ago (when the last Nuby Night was held) > about what's happening in the Ruby space, or about working with Ruby. > We feel like things have flattened out, there's less interesting > innovation going on, and there are even a few potential shark-jumps > happening. > > That said, there's still a lot of cool stuff out there, and we all > think the roro community is full of amazing people. Given it's the > start of a new year, now seems a good time to take stock, and harness > the brains of those amazing people to work out how we can keep > everyone involved and excited this year. > > So, for the next Melbourne meeting, we're only going to have one > speaker, and I want to spend the rest of the time having a meta- > discussion about the state of the Ruby world, and about the Melbourne > roro group. > > I'm setting you all some homework in preparation for the meeting. > Please come along having thought about the following things: > > 1. What do you think are the best things (products, tools, ideas, or > anything else) to come out of the Ruby world in the past couple of > years? > > 2. What are the most exciting and inspiring things you've come across > in the past couple of years? This can be Ruby or non-Ruby, techie or > non-techie...anything that's got you excited and motivated. > > 3. What are the up-and-coming things you're excited about this year? > > If you have any general thoughts about how we can improve the group, > please bring those along too. > > (And feel free to discuss all this on the list in the meantime.) > > - Pete --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
