Gunz For Hire

Rails has created a whole new set of guns and amo... I can literally change everything in a completely messed up system in a matter of hours!!

Way Cool new tech!

So I was asked yesterday why I don't program in Python. The truth is I don't know much about Python and was not really interested back my days of Perl (96'-2002). It just seemed that Perl was much better in my opinion. But as CGI/Perl ran it course there were all kinds of new problems starting with convention. This is probably why so many people say that Perl is 'ugly' and crude. On the contrary, we were writing some beautiful OO Perl (or at least we though so at the time).

I am guessing that the natural migration progression from Perl would be to PHP. PHP seemed to be a more mature language for web programming. But it too lacked a framework (at least at the time I was programming it back in 2003). So we made a lot of crappy PHP programs [a few that are still in production at Oakley today].

Enter Ruby/Rails (for me in 2006). Man, what a refreshing feeling. It has really made programming fun again and the MVC Rails framework basically rules and just keeps getting better (look at Rails 3!).

So what's on the horizon? I think more javascript/html frameworks. I was looking at http://cappuccino.org/ this morning. This is really cool. Mustache (http://github.com/foca/mustache) looks interesting too. So many cool things going on right now and no better way to mesh them together than with Ruby/Rails!