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My most excellent friend Joe Stump has just published a great blog post about the cities he’s lived in. Speifically
- San Francisco
- Boulder
- Portland
- Seattle
I think on most days I’m just as much of a tech nerd as he is, but during the entire time he’s talking about in his post (and, actually, considerably longer) I’ve been living here in Los Angeles. This confuses a lot of my nerdy brethren, and I think sometimes Joe in particular. I have my reasons though, so I figured I’d write them down just for posterity, if perhaps not as verbosely as my comrade.
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Been busy. Traveling mostly. My life really did resemble Up in the Air for a few months there. But I’m back, and mostly unscathed. Two weeks in NY and Nashville in November around Thanksgiving should do it for airports and me for 2010.
As I get older years seem to go by a lot faster and this one has been no exception. Not altogether a bad one though. It does beg the question, of course, about how to finish this first-year-of-the-decade off. And this year, what I think I’m going to (finally) try and do is an honest assessment / comparison, from a systems standpoint, of Ruby on Rails and Django.
I have bias against Rails. My personal experiences of having to deal with systems using Rails have been negative, whereas my personal experiences of having to deal with systems using Django have been very benign. That said, I’ve never dealt with Rails v3.x at all, and I hear a lot has improved. So I’m going to do my level best to neutralize my historical bias, and just get some real metrics as best as I can.
The part of this process that I’m most concerned about is testing both in a way that reflects the usage patterns of typical developers for these platforms. I don’t develop for either really, since I haven’t personally worked on a project for which a generic framework was an appropriate option in a very long time. Which may make this evaluation difficult to do correctly. But, I can assure anybody reading, I’m not out to glorify or crucify anybody here. I just want to put both through their paces and see what happens. If anybody out there has any good “do this” or “do not to this” advice, I’m all ears right now.
I’m hoping to do this work in December. We’ll see.
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