First Impressions
July 5th, 2007
In theory this would be an amazing first post. It would catch your attention and make the whole technology world hang on every word I ever post, however few words that may be. In reality this is just going to be the typical introduction.
Hi, my name is Rich Cavanaugh and I’m a Ruby developer
I’ve been meaning to start a blog for a couple years. When I was at the top of my game in PHP I wanted to blog. When I took on Python with real fervor, I wanted to blog. I’ve been talking about it since I took on Ruby and subsequently Rails. Basically I’ve been annoying the shit out of everyone around me. Without this outlet I’ve been ranting and raving to my wife about what precisely I dislike about ActiveRecord. For someone not so technical she’s become quite knowledgeable about ORMs or at least my opinions on them.
A week with my own kind
I work from home. I’ve worked from home for the better part of five years. These jobs have always been pretty much just me doing all the technology. In May two things happened. First my company hired a second developer and second I went to RailsConf 2007. This caused a bit of a revelation, I like people more than I thought. Especially very smart people and there doesn’t seem to be any shortage in the Ruby community and they’re all blogging.
Inflicting my opinion on the community
So this is the whole point. Whenever something occurs to me that I’d like to share, instead of giving a crash course on blocks and bindings to my wife, I’ll post here. I want to finally join the discussion at large and I hope I can contribute something to that discussion.
2 Responses to “First Impressions”
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July 6th, 2007 at 08:06 AM Nice job man. Welcome to the club. I am happy you realized you like humans. I am not sure you would find many Martians in this earth.
July 6th, 2007 at 11:41 AM Nice opening salvo :) I can tell already I'm going to enjoy your writing style. Unfortunately, I'm positive your wife will still have to suffer through the occasional rant on proper encapsulation, improper design pattern implementations and the failures of various ORM's in supporting proper ANSI SQL. Hopefully, we'll catch some of the overflow here though, where we can all enjoy and appreciate it (and possibly thereafter speculate upon how you've mixed up your meds again). Cheers and welcome :)