Be kind to your elders. I built my first site for money for an ad agency in 1997. That was 21 years ago. It was entirely static HTML except for a CGI contact form and some sort of "interactive quiz" thing that was meant to siphon in the clients. Tons of inline JS rollovers, because we were very modern. At home I had a 56K modem, to be sure, but at work we had a T1.
Walter > On Nov 14, 2018, at 8:54 PM, Joe Guerra <jgue...@jginfosys.com> wrote: > > what kind of websites were you developing 16 years ago? where did you > connect using a dial up modem? 56k? > > > On Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 8:10:28 PM UTC-5, Stefan Buhrmester wrote: > I've been a professional web developer for 16 years now. "Professional" as in > "receiving money for pushing buttons on the computer with a varying degree of > purposefulness". > > After 3 years of working exclusively with nodejs on the server- as well the > client side, I landed a Rails job again. And I have to say one thing: > Nothing, and I mean NOTHING could separate me from the Ruby and Rails > community EVER again. The Ruby and Rails communities are the most welcoming, > loving people you will ever find. The only likewise welcoming community in > the javascript world (in my opinion) is the Vue / Nuxt.js community. And with > webpacker, you can now have literally the best of both worlds. > > Also, using ActiveRecord on the backend is still second-to-none in terms of > ease of use. Good luck with ACID guarantees in all these NoSQL databases and > transactions entangled in a labyrinth of asynchronous javascript. > > What I want to say is: I love Rails. > > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 3:55 PM Jack Waugh <jv2a9...@snkmail.com> wrote: > It's late 2018. Is Ruby still what managers are turning to for significant > numbers of new web projects? > > Are there sets of requirements that are so simple, that almost everyone with > any experience would choose some other stack not involving the Ruby language? > E. g. a web site requiring a CMS and a 'blog and little to nothing in the way > of custom tables? > > I'm not experienced with many kinds of projects on the Web, and so I have > this maybe naive thought that with nodejs, at least people can use the same > syntax for code that runs on the server and code that runs in the browser. > Doesn't having that single syntax reduce the intellectual burden somewhat? If > Ruby is still getting a lot of traction for new projects, what are said to be > the benefits that outweigh the drawback of using two languages and so having > to keep mentally changing gears? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-ta...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonra...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/b40750b4-8136-4f27-931e-c75950b5e9d5%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/a2e48076-2986-4f1e-856c-e0580d42375f%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/A54F9BC1-F7B1-4DF4-93EF-4C0C4BCB3F5D%40wdstudio.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
