Welcome, Alex!
Sorry you can't make tonight's meeting... maybe you can drop by one
of our next hackfests.
If you're up for it, I think a talk about your experiences at Sony
would be quite cool (for April's meetup).
-- Patrick
On Mar 1, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Alex Boster wrote:
Hello, just wanted to introduce myself. I was planning on coming
to my first meeting tonight, but now may not be able to make it.
I'm a Perl guy who recently converted to Ruby on Rails in December
after we gave up on Catalyst (the Perl "Rails-like" knockoff) for
our project at work (I work for Sony Computer Entertainment America
in Sorrento Mesa). We are using Rails to build a web plus xml-rpc
api application server for internal use. It's quite a large
project and we have only 3.5 developers. Rails has been letting us
work about twice as fast as we would have been able to in Perl.
(Not to mention I'm VERY happy working in Ruby...)
The main perspective I might be able to bring is where we are doing
"enterprise"-y things that are on the edge of what Rails can do
(indeed, we have to NOT stay in the Rails paradigm occasionally).
We are using Oracle, and using stored procedures and views, must
provide an XML-RPC interface for people who will need to have an
api into our app from Java. The application itself is relatively
complex with about 60-70 tables, plus some views and some non-
database backed models in the app.
I also have been to the Pragmatic Studio guys' three day Rails
Studio class and will be going to the Advanced Rails Studio. These
are given by some of the authors of the relevant Pragmatic
Programmer books and the class I attended was top notch. That's
something else I can talk about (disclaimer: I'm just enthusiastic
about the class and get nothing for referring people to it ... )
Alex Boster
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