… though they need someone to improve the grammar:
They got rid of that fugly “ping-pong ball” text logo, too.
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James B. wrote:
… though they need someone to improve the grammar:
They got rid of that fugly “ping-pong ball” text logo, too.
I’ve seen a new Ruby homepage proposal somewhere… iirc
lopex
In article [email protected],
James B. [email protected] wrote:
… though they need someone to improve the grammar:
Speaking of improved language websites… wasn’t there an effort afoot
(more
than a year ago I think) to improve Ruby’s website? Some nice looking
protoype
sites were produced, but nothing ever came of it… what gives?
BTW: we can also put “NASA uses Ruby” on our website too 
Phil
James B. wrote:
… though they need someone to improve the grammar:
I feel left out. Where’s our “NASA uses Ruby” ad?
Phil T. wrote:
James B. [email protected] wrote:
BTW: we can also put “NASA uses Ruby” on our website too
The curious thing is that when I went to the success stories
page, and did text-search for “NASA”, it came up empty?
Bil K. wrote:
Phil T. wrote:
James B. [email protected] wrote:
BTW: we can also put “NASA uses Ruby” on our website too
The curious thing is that when I went to the success stories
page, and did text-search for “NASA”, it came up empty?
Search for “shuttle”. Or just click on the photo on the front page.
Karl von Laudermann wrote:
Search for “shuttle”. Or just click on the photo on the front page.
Ah, so it’s not NASA, but a NASA contractor…
Rob S. wrote:
…>
Its still going on as far as I know, just progressing slowly. The blog is here:
Some interesting comments on Reddit about the new Python look:
http://reddit.com/info?id=2t2w
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On 3/6/06, Marcin Miel¿yñski [email protected] wrote:
lopex
Its still going on as far as I know, just progressing slowly. The blog
is here:
http://redhanded.hobix.com/redesign2005/
… though they need someone to improve the grammar:
They got rid of that fugly “ping-pong ball” text logo, too.
IMO, the Ruby site redesign guys are on a much better track. Who
really cares whether NASA uses Python? One thing I learned from having
to sit through too many software marketing presentations is that
organizations like NASA are to software what the Library of Congress
is to books. I finally started interrupting presenters to ask
something like “Do you realize that all of your competitors have
LANL on their peer-pressure slide too?” Most actually didn’t!
Steve
James,
But there is the counter-counterargument that it is more important to
attract the right kind of people, not simply large crowds of
indiscriminate coders. And that poor marketing (e.g., My language is
cool, your language is a mouse poop sandwich) will turn people off.
Nice.
I just wanted to take a moment and applaud you for your valid
contributions in amusing packages. It really does keep a lot of the
conversations fresh and educational even after years of lurking…
Thanks.
Cameron
Steven L. wrote:
to sit through too many software marketing presentations is that
organizations like NASA are to software what the Library of Congress
is to books. I finally started interrupting presenters to ask
something like “Do you realize that all of your competitors have
LANL on their peer-pressure slide too?” Most actually didn’t!
There’s an argument to be made that language advocacy, and “selling”
Ruby (or Python or Lisp or whatever), is distasteful.
There’s also a counterargument suggesting that the language and its
community will be better off for the greater exposure and mainstream
use.
I believe that language marketing itself is fine, though it can be
poorly or distastefully done. People looking to code Ruby for a living
are helped if HR people or recruiters or whomever have heard of Ruby;
people currently trying to persuade their coworkers or boss to adopt
Ruby are helped if Ruby is better known and people are assured that more
Ruby hackers can be found if a bus takes out the one or two Rubyists
they know.
But there is the counter-counterargument that it is more important to
attract the right kind of people, not simply large crowds of
indiscriminate coders. And that poor marketing (e.g., My language is
cool, your language is a mouse poop sandwich) will turn people off.
I’d like to think that if you make the intrinsic strengths of Ruby
obvious then it will (continue to) attract the people who will help make
it better (by keen observations, code submission, library creation),
which in turn will draw the attention of the more practical-minded.
But it may be that “success story” blurbs are still needed to win over
project managers and such.
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universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded
by
uncertainty cannot be the truth.”
James B. wrote:
Ruby are helped if Ruby is better known and people are assured that more
Ruby hackers can be found if a bus takes out the one or two Rubyists
they know.
I just have one question.
Why is at always a BUS that would hit Ruby programmers? This is EXACTLY
the vehicle a former boss used in the hypothetical story he used to
justify why I shouldn’t use Ruby [anymore (heh)]. Are high-capacity
passenger transport vehicles just naturally attracted to Rubyists?
Angered by them? Or maybe the Amalgamated Transit Union has a secret
vendetta against us?
Are we not worth of being hit by cars? vans? trains? hovercraft?
momentarily tries to envision being “run over” (“blown over?”) by a
hovercraft tricycles?
Pistos
Which was supposed to be off-list. My apologies for my blunding
fingers.
On Mar 10, 2006, at 9:58 AM, Pistos C. wrote:
the vehicle a former boss used in the hypothetical story he used to
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Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
It’s always a bus because the bus has a long and venerable tradition
in taking out programmers.
See: Segfault.org
story.phtml?mode=2&id=38b40d78-087dd360
Pistos C. wrote:
passenger transport vehicles just naturally attracted to Rubyists?
Angered by them? Or maybe the Amalgamated Transit Union has a secret
vendetta against us?Are we not worth of being hit by cars? vans? trains? hovercraft?
momentarily tries to envision being “run over” (“blown over?”) by a
hovercraft tricycles?
Because there is no such thing (yet) as hovercraft tricycle errors, but
there are (still) bus errors.
On 3/7/06, Rob S. [email protected] wrote:
I’ve seen a new Ruby homepage proposal somewhere… iirc
lopex
Its still going on as far as I know, just progressing slowly. The blog is here:
I can assure you that it is still progressing. It has been slow
progress, but much faster in recent months (thanks to John L.).
Hopefully a few more months and it’ll be all finished.
Curt
On 3/10/06, Pistos C. [email protected] wrote:
passenger transport vehicles just naturally attracted to Rubyists?
Angered by them? Or maybe the Amalgamated Transit Union has a secret
vendetta against us?Are we not worth of being hit by cars? vans? trains? hovercraft?
momentarily tries to envision being “run over” (“blown over?”) by a
hovercraft tricycles?
I can’t tell you how many projects I’ve seen fail due to
hovercraft-related issues.
On 11 Mar 2006, at 03:30, Wilson B. wrote:
Why is at always a BUS that would hit Ruby programmers? This is
I can’t tell you how many projects I’ve seen fail due to
hovercraft-related issues.
nods
On a happier note, last week the team I work in took a vote on using
Ruby for development. They’re a 15 strong group. A mix of developers
and QC people, about a 50-50 split, and a few managers. Their
criteria for choosing was simply “Will you be happy to maintain code
that is written in Ruby?” The majority were, so now I can happily
develop with Ruby, rather than keeping the pickaxe hidden on my knees
under my desk 
In trying to convince them, my major selling points were that:
Ruby is being used by other people - it’s a mature language.
Ruby has some significant advantages as a language; comes with
superb tools and modules, making it highly productive and enjoyable;
and has a vibrant and active community.
Ruby code should be more maintainable than (in this case) Perl,
because it encourages modular, well structured design. This is far
more important to rapid understanding, than a maintainer’s
familiarity with the language.
But I think I can hear the distant drone of an encroaching
hovercraft, so I will leave you, and try to finish what I can before
my appointment with destiny.
Cheers,
Benjohn
On 11/03/06, Pistos C. [email protected] wrote:
Why is at always a BUS that would hit Ruby programmers?
It’s so you can use the phrase “bus error”, which has an air of humerous
ambiguity to it. Like “carbon-based error”.
;Daniel
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