Donald Marino's 2nd Official Try at Blogging

Blog has moved

2006-03-27T21:01:00.000-08:00

I moved the blog onto www.donaldmarino.com.

My worn out axe

2006-03-26T21:13:00.000-08:00

Here's a few pics of my 1989 Palmer P39EC. It is distinctly possible that this instrument saved my life in the early 90's. I haven't played it in a while (I have others now), but a fresh set of strings, polish 'er up, and it sounds and plays great still. Here's the thing, though: this was a bargain-basement buy even in 1989. There's no real reason to have even expected this guitar to sound or play nicely even when new. $200 dollar guitars rarely do. This thing is an exception, though, because it's a player and it sounds great. Except for the pickup. That sounds terrible. I never plug it in. But the guitar has outperformed expectations by so far that it's amazing. I tried to find out some info about Palmer Guitars and utterly failed. There isn't one iota of evidence they exist on the internet. No customer service, no website, nothing. I did find two intances of internet merchants who claimed to have a few Palmer guitars for sale. Maybe they went out of business, maybe they just don't have a website. Dunno. I cannot ever remember seeing another Palmer, strangely. It's a really nice instrument for what it is. It it very close to the end of its useful life, though. It's cracked, beaten, bent, and broke. It wouldn't do for a daily player anymore, but it's still nice to take for a spin now and again. 15 years of memories is almost half my life. They're in that rosewood fretboard like ghosts.

Anyway, Here's what a cheap guitar looks like after you work out 15+ years of your feelings on it.

Even a stopped clock is right sometimes.

2006-03-23T06:37:00.001-08:00

I am heartened by a nice, momentary convergence of the fates. Apparently, beards have become fashionable for men to wear. Like, big time fashionable. Ralph Lauren runway models, style editors and hipster New Yorkers are sporting beards now. The New York Times even had a style piece on how cool beards are now. Big, bushy ones too, not just some token George Michael stubble, either. As a man who hasn't shaved in almost ten years now, it's amusing to me that this momentary fashion trend has arrived. I'm in style again, randomly!
I suspect that it's a huge backlash from the not-so-subtle not-quite-homo metrosexual thing that has been afflicted on men over the last few years. Gentlemen under a certain age have been expected to look pretty girly of late, and, well while the ladies may really like their men pretty as girls with fashion labels and lots of cologne, men won't stand for that forever. "Look! I am a man! With a big manly beard. And a Prada shirt!" We're men after all. Hopefully. So, I suppose to re-assert their manliness, the metros are growing beards. It smacks a bit of desperation. "You can make us wear gay clothes, but you can't make us shave!" I can't remember who said it, but it was true - If women decided they like men who walked upside-down, within a week half the earth would be walking on their hands. Funny, but true. If you need any more proof that it's true, go to LoDo (Denver) on a friday night. The poor gentlemen of today have been quite emasculated, becuase metro is a style the young ladies prefer. We'll see if beards are here to stay, but if not, look for this fashion trend to be short-lived. The chicks will have what they want in the end. Funny thing is I grew my beard years ago at the request of a girl I was dating. Men were still allowed to be men back then I guess. And women hadn't invented metrosexuality to doll up the young men yet. Here's to hippie beards (like mine) on fashion models :-)

The greatest songwriter of all time.

2006-03-21T09:10:00.000-08:00

The late Elliott Smith.

My favorite musician of all time. Bar none.

Wha?

2006-03-20T09:24:00.000-08:00

I just read a really dumb statement, and because I'm mean, I'm going to have to share it with you.

Apparently Windows Vista needs a lot of RAM to run. Like a whole lot. Official spec is min 512MB, but apparently thats only if you only run I.E. and don't like to multi-task.

But this takes the cake. In some talkback on a forum, this one bright spark announced that he was ok with that because his WinXP machine had never used more than 480MB of it's 1GB RAM. "Now, " he says "at least I'll be putting that extra RAM to use."

I don't even know which end of that statement to ridicule first, so I'll just leave it to the gentle reader to consider.

Laundry-Fu

2006-03-16T18:47:00.001-08:00

The more I watch this, the cooler it gets.
Next time you fold your laundry, think about how bad you suck.

Laundry-Fu Video

Love it.

D

Thanks RMS

2006-03-15T08:19:00.000-08:00

Do you take it for granted?
If you don't prefer Windows, and you don't use Windows, you should thank Richard Stallman.
Even if you don't like him or what he says (he's like, kinda extreme, yo). Because it's not that likely you'd have much/any choice if it werent for him. Really, you might not, and it would really suck.
That's my thought for today.

D

Baseball is broken.

2006-03-09T07:51:00.000-08:00

There are three types of people in the world: People who don't like sports, sports fans, and baseball people. If, like myself, you find yourself in the last category, these days are tougher than ever. I have had to become a baseball apologist. It's almost embarrassing to admit that you love baseball anymore. I find myself yearning for the good old days when all you had to defend was the fact that baseball on television is actually fantastic entertainment. Now that's the least of our worries. Major League Baseball has become an embarrassment. It's phenomenally sad to see.
When the immigrant Jaques Barzun famously said "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball", he made a deep and salient point. Well, Barzun would be glad to know that its never been more true than it is today. Americans, to a man, will say they love baseball. I mean like 90% of people. Two thirds of those people would follow up quickly with a "but I don't like watching it on T.V." Ball park attendance is around 50 Million a year, much of which is repeat business. So, really, Americans say they love baseball, but they don't like watching it on TV and most people can't or don't go to the park. But not many would ever tell you it'd be ok to stop playing baseball in the U.S.A.. Now, however, with a steroid scandal rolling full steam, playing itself out in the 24-hour newsmedia blaster, now that's something we can get into, there. Keep it coming, the more the better, the dirtier the better, the bigger the names, the better. It's depressing to see that overshadow anything like what's going on on the field. The Cubs beat the Mets, yawn, so did anybody get caught cheating? That's what we're interested in now. That's what's on the news and that's how we'll talk about baseball for a long time yet.
So, who's to blame? How can we fix it? Well, I blame the baseball owners and Major League Baseball. MLB has got to be the worst run professional sport in history. They have special laws that no one can compete with them and they still manage to suck it up horribly. This whole thing is their fault, and it's obvious why: the drugs that a lot of these players were taking were perfectly legal to use in the league at the time. You simply cannot blame the players for using them. There was a not-so-subtle suggestion that it was okay to use performance-enhancing drugs, and it isn't really gone yet, even in the wake of this scandal. Now, there's a not-so-well-known look the other way policy for player taking amphetamines to stay alert over the grinding of 160+ games. It's totally rampant and no one in MLB is going to stop it because it helps the on-field product look better. You have to blame the league. I think that it's time to let competition into Professional Baseball. Sure, we'd have to endure some XFL-style foolishness here and there, but you can't tell me there aren't some smarter businessmen out there who can leverage America's lip service to loving baseball and do a way better job than the clowns running MLB.
If people stand up and cheer when Barry Bonds breaks Babe Ruth's HR record in a few months, they should be ashamed. But they will and the new media circus will blather and blather. Just you wait. One thing they won't be talking about is the action on the field. Tigers played the Yankees, yawn, were there any good sound bites? Did a cameraman get punced out? So that's how we take our baseball now. Filtered through the never stopping tabloid media machines. Just like we do with everything. Barzun still has us pegged.

FZ-1 Pics

2006-02-28T15:11:00.000-08:00

After a few 70 degree days, the bike needed a bath and a serious chain & sprocket job.
Here's the clean baby!

I Sys Admins

2006-02-24T09:08:00.000-08:00

I've worked with a lot of developers over the years who like UNIX & Gnu/Linux. To a man, if they had any skill at programming, they were excellent system administrators. Now, I'll be the last to bash SysAdmins, I love 'em. Some of them I've worked with could be stellar developers if they wanted to. But developers are often really, really good at this. I remember a situation at a startup photogrammetry firm I worked at where the lead developer finally lost patience with the somewhat inept sysadmin and took over. This developer had those system humming literally the next day after we had had problems for months. Developers and Admins both have great knowledge of what goes on in a linux host, but these groups do things differently. Very differently.
Developers want to do lots of stuff inside a system. They want to keep two versions of libraries laying around. They want to build their stuff from source, they want to use new versions of stuff all the time. They don't mind breaking stuff to see what happens. They hack configs, they do whatever. They have a high tolerance for instability. They want deep insight into why things are like they are in a system, and aren't afraid to try something tricky.
Admins want their systems to obey them and behave. They want each lib to be the stable one and everything nice and clean with a warranty and support. They don't really care about deep inner workings, they just want the boxes to run cleanly and efficiently all the time. They fear downtime and pagers going off at odd hours. They want predictable servers with the same configs and clean backups. It's a different perspective, to be sure.
I've been fighting with these two perspectives a lot lately because I have been doing a lot of sys admin work for both of my clients this week. I'm a hacker at heart, so I get a little rough with the sytems sometimes. We all know I'm not the best admin in the world, but these clients are small and, heck, somebody's got to do it. So, I've been fighting away inside RedHat machines of various stripe. The conclusion that I am coming to is that it is really hard to have it both ways. If you want to have a stable RPM based system, you have to decide that early and basically never screw with it. Then it'll happily run until the cows come home with nary a hiccup. if you start in even with one stinkin' lib upgrade or source install, you're on the path. You can alomst always get things to work, but it can be hard. Especially coming into legacy systems where developers have done god-knows-what. Still, there's some kind of perverse fun in it. It's like solving a mystery when things get futzed-up in a linux box. There's plenty of clues and friendly people to help. And of course you always learn a lot along the way that'll help you become a better developer. For me, the linux systems, software, and community are nearly endlessly fascinating. But still, I'd prefer to have a good sysadmin doing a lot of this stuff :-)

Olympic Snowboarding was not a concept in 1986.

2006-02-14T07:01:00.000-08:00

Personally, this concept blows me away. I'm a 33 year old dude, who grew up skateboarding in Richmond, VA. I still maintain a skateboard in working order and could prbably still do a kickflip ollie most days. So, basically since I was old enough to know what what was going on, I was paying attention to 'extreme' sports.
The fact that the whole wide world is displaying massive stokage over dudes in halfpipes throwing 1080s & 1260s is amazing to me. Let's just say that in Richmond in the mid-1980s, skatebaording was not considered cool. It was actually illegal to do in almost all public places ("skateboarding is not a crime" used to mean something). It was not considered manly by any means and any god-fearing, tobacco spittin, 'real'-sports loving man would just as happily kick your ass for riding a skateboard and having funny hair as not. Real sports were, by the way, Football, Wrestling, and NASCAR - real oldschool NASCAR, not this new-fangled bs, where foreigners and California boys are driving around with dyed hair. Now those same rednecks and certainly their kids are high-fiving over Shaun Whites gold medal runs. Man. It boggles the mind.
Part of what's so amazing is the level these people take things to. The culture of these sports is to push the boundaries. If someone did a 360, well someone should try a 540. When Mike McGill did the 540 McTwist it was a real live breakthrough and the entire skateboarding community knew about it. It was big deal. He raised the bar. Now pros all had to learn 540s. If you can do a trick, why not learn it backwards? All the sudden everyones skating switch. Push push push. And why, because it works! It's fun to watch your buddy learn frontside inverts after crashing all day. Frontside inverts are insane - damn he just did one! Good way to burn time as a kid and good for you too on so many levels. Still - now the level has gone so far you wonder how much further they can go, but of course we were saying that back in the day and continually since then. The bar just keeps getting stratospheric. When I was a kid, the things that the pro skaters were doing were at least somewhat within reach. I was a good enough skater that I could do at least some of the stuff they were doing at the same amplitude as them. I had pretty good skills. It was not ridiculous to think I could skate like that one day and when I was a teen I was striving to do so. I had a local shop sponsorship and occasionally placed in the top 3 in the 1-A Amatauer Street contests. I was mildly well known for having ollied over a shopping cart and an oil drum. This was 1988.
Now the pro dudes tap their nose on the shopping cart during one of five consecutive tricks on the way down after clearing a car, three picnic tables and having started on the roof of the damned supermarket in the first place. It more than boggles the mind. I don't know how kids can go from popping ollies in the street to that. It just seems so out of reach. Also the consequences are so dire now. I was never in danger of much more than a broken limb, some severe scabbage or fat knock on the skull. These guys could definitely be killed if they miss some of the stuff they try. I mean you can't practice some of this stuff - either you make it or you don't - period.
So, on it goes. These guys in the Olympic halfpipe were watching the dudes that came after my gen, just as were were watching the Tony Hawks, Mark Gonzaleses, and Neil Blenders. Now all the kids have seen Shaun White hold the gold after shreddin the pipe in Torino. A new generation of dreams is born. By the time the kids today get into the Olympics they wont be satisfied with mere 1080s and 1260s I can assure you of that. People used to think ski jumpers were extreme. Soon we'll wonder why they dont toss in a stalefish 1080 and yawn. In fact, I wonder how much air time ski jumping even gets anymore. The halfpipe is just too rad to ignore. Oh, and those foreign drivers and California boys are pretty goddamned fast too.

Janet's Hut

2006-02-11T07:11:00.000-08:00

I spent the last three days cooling out at 11,677 feet in Janet's Hut. Janet's belongs to the famous 10th Mountain Division Hut System. The weather was particularly good (see below). With beautiful clear days and cold nights. It was -8F when I left the hut the other morning. The hut was warm as toast, and sported amenities like solar electricity and a wood-fired sauna. The altitude worked me over a bit and I felt slightly unwell most of those three days, but still had a great time and snowshoed around well above treeline, which is always fun. Here's a cut-n-paste panorama of the hut. We walked all the way up from the side of Copper mountain. You can see the end of the tenmile range at the right in this pic.

Now it's time to get back to work. There's no shortage of that waiting at the moment. :-)

How web2 are you?

2006-02-02T19:37:00.000-08:00

Since I was just +dying+ to know, I ran www.donaldmarino.com through the Web 2.0 Validator. I'm not sure I fared too well, but in the final analysis I "appeared to be web 3.0". Whatever that means.

Here were my "validator" hits:

Uses Cascading Style Sheets? Yes!
Appears to be web 3.0 ? Yes!
Appears to use AJAX ? Yes!
Has prototype.js ? Yes!
Uses Semantic Markup? Yes!

By the way --> I think everyone should know the real genesis of the "2.0" thing. Or at least the damned funniest. A friend and former co-worker of mine was referring to his second wife as "Wife 2-point-0" years and years ago. Hasn't stopped being funny yet. Every single time I hear or read "web 2.0", I hear that guy saying "Wife 2.0". Funny.

Jets coaching moves

2006-01-31T18:52:00.000-08:00

Well. For those of you who read this and don't actually know me, I'm a lifelong-afflicted NY Jets fan. Really, it's not anywhere near as bad as people think. It's not really _that_ miserable to be a Jet fan. There have been some good high points over the years. It's not like we never make the playoffs. We have a Super Bowl championship to our name (OK, it was before I was alive), a few AFC title games, several 11-5 type years. I mean some teams' fans have it worse. The Bengals come to mind.
The new coaching hires are a bit odd. In sports, as we all know, you don't get to choose the owners. In most competitve sports, if your owner is inept, you won't win. At least you won't win consistently. Woody Johnson's record is mixed in my book. He has bumbled a lot, but mostly stayed out of the hands-on stuff. He is a steadfast Terry Bradway (Jets GM) supporter, which is a negative, but he did bring Herm Edwards for five years, and hire several black coaches. Thats not all bad. Bradway isn't a prize, but obviously we're stuck with him. So, now we turn to the new leadership. Eric Mangini from New England's staff. Age: 35. Runs Heimerdinger out of town. Who's he hire? Marty Schottenheimer's kid, recently known as QB coach, SD Chargers. Age: 32. So, I was thinking that since Donnie Henderson (our best coach last year and my choice for head coach) is in Detroit (and I don't mean coaching the Jets D in the Super Bowl), I could be the guy. After all I'm 33. Right in the sweet spot.
Really, I mean these two coaches are both younger than significant portions of the roster. That may simply not work. It's too bad Marv Levy went back to the Bills. Hiring him for Defensive Coordinator would bring the average age of the three top coaches to a still young 46. I mean this is an NFL team. I'm not saying these aren't talented guys. Mangini is supposed to be pretty bright and apparently Schotty, Jr gets a lot of credit for Brees' strong comeback in S.D., but man, what if guys like Ty Law and Curtis Martin don't buy in? What if Mawae, Kendall and the other locker room leaders who compare favorably in age and leadership abilities hate the guy? Throw in a 2-6 start and crank up the NY media roasters because you're gonna need 'em. You thought this year was hard to endure. It might be a while before the Jets are any good again.

I hope I'm wrong.

New work situation is interesting.

2006-01-30T07:16:00.000-08:00

Recently, I stepped down as a Director/Manager guy and returned to writing software for a living. Many folks have made this yo-yo journey into management and back out. I think, however, the difference in my case is that I actually enjoyed both. I really thought I could do them at the same time, too. It seemed to be working. But, my employer had other ideas and pretty much forced me to decide one way or the other. So now I just develop the software systems, mostly off-site. I'm certain that wasn't the outcome that my employer was really looking for, and I'm a little confused about what exactly went down, but the funny part is how great it worked out for me. Now I can concentrate on the project that is being developed. All the hours I bill are productive hours. I no longer waste 20 hours a week and huge financial resources driving to Denver. I have quadrupled my development velocity and that's no joke. Of course, using Ruby & Rails helps, but nothing beats that sweet but elusive 6 hour block of uniterrupted concentration. That's really what I've regained and it's power is great. You don't get that when you're onsite, trying to put out fires, fix phone systems, do budgets, make schedules, track bugs, schedule iterations, appease fearful software customers, do Windows desktop support, move people's PCs around, unjam printers, do inventory, manage vendors, manage, review and develop employees, speak to the Board of Governors, and whatever the hell else comes in to ruin your day. Still, I thought it was going OK. I just wanted to be able to write software at home at night without being punished for it. My employer couldn't see it that way for some reason. Now it's all I do, along with the occasional job interview or business development work, and I'm not really making any less money. There's a lot going on in the job market and there seems to be lots of clients out there who are interested. There's a palpable buzz in the software engineering industry again. I don't think a lot of the current buzzwords capture it - web 2.0, etc. , but there is a something-ness to it all. There is the very real feeling that killer apps are being worked on in darkened rooms around the world... waiting to be sprung. I can't wait to see them and don't think I'm not working on a thing or two myself for 2006 ;-). I think 2006 is really going to cook!

Dyno Day is coming

2006-01-25T20:26:00.000-08:00

I'm set to dyno the car on Feb 10. This is an annual event for my car club. (Mostly 2002-2005 Civic Si hatchback owners)

The last time I did that was two years ago, whereupon my 2002 Civic Si laid down a not-so-mighty 136.7 whp.
Sad to say, I hardly expect to do much better two years later. I have not really added any real horsepower to the car, but the handling is top-notch and the brakes are improved. I'm gunning for 140 this time with my new mid-pipe and Spoon axleback. The shop where we dyno, Dyno-Pro in Denver, CO will plot me a chart with before and after since I'm in their database already. Should be good times. Some of these kids' cars are throwin' down 300+ hp. Insane.

I can't wait until amateur moto season returns! Looks like autocross will be the main course this year as the tracks are mostly gone. That's OK. Autocross is pretty fun, and I'm still in Street Touring - S, where I am just beginning to become competitive. Maybe I'll concentrate on a top ten STS finish in 2006.

D

How holy is too holy?

2006-01-25T09:19:00.000-08:00

I find that when designing and implementing software, it's important to decide what level of cleanliness to tolerate. When I've been involved in team development in the past, this is commonly a friction point for team members. How 'holy' to be .. or how 'dirty' to tolerate the code base becoming. If you develop software, you know what I mean. Whenever you've completed a sweet design and gotten it working more or less, the EJB guru of the bunch decides to give you a lecture about abstraction and business layer separation, blah blah blah. All of which you've heard before and don't give a shit about because , well, you'd like to deliver some working software before you die, or get fired. Now, see, I'm not saying use dirty patterns and throw caution to the wind - far from it. I'm just saying there's a lot of ways to deliver working code. Is it really worth it to design a completely separated, clean, scalable, blahblahblah solution when it may never need to scale? That's generally when the 'holy rollers' come out to ruin your day, your project scope, your design, and anything else they can cast their righteous indignation towards. That's the guy, by the way, who isn't responsible for your delivery timeline. Yeah, him, the guy who laughs down his sleeve at CGI (although there's nothing wrong with it for samll apps), the guy who would much rather give you a seminar on ORM than ever persist a single record in a single working app. Usually, they fancy themselves "Architects". I just _love_ that. It's more or less a declaration that "I'm so damned good at designing software that I don't even have to implement it anymore. Underlings will bring my genuis to life!". I hate to pick on one language, but Java has created more self-styled "Software architects" than anything else I've come across. That language has some intangible feature that makes people want to draw impossibly overcomplicated patterns and workflows that no one would ever actually implement, but that look really _hot_ on a whiteboard.

I guess the reason this annoys me is because I'm way far into the pragmatist side of things. I'll break patterns in a heartbeat if I think it'll get something done faster. I'll fail to design scalability into an API if I really don't see the need. I've gotten away with this for years, because I have a good sense of when something doesn't need to be built like an M-1 Abrams Tank.

Blame the "Enterprise" people. What a crock of BS that is. I've never seen a term more fabricated and contrived than "Enterprise". I spit it out of my mouth like a dirty word. More unnecessary suffering has been caused by idioit executives throwing that around like it means something over the last 5-8 years... I swaer it has to stop. I have seen highly intelligent and respected executive swooning over some new "Enterprise" technology that is way too expensive, way too complicated, and not likely to be implemented in 2 years' time. Sad.

I don't really have a good point to make other than all that shit is completely unnecessary. Don't over design your software. Don't use static langs unless there is a real, compelling reason - which is far, far rarer than anyone seems to think. Be flexible, patterns are guidelines, people - not scripture.

Baseball history?

2006-01-16T09:22:00.000-08:00

I saw an interesting article recently on cnn.com. Apparently some company is suing Major League Baseball for charging licensing fees for MLB baseball stats.

It raises an interesting issue. The statistics are actually just historical facts, claim the plaintiffs, how can you charge fees? As usual, it's big money driving this question. The plaintiffs are a company that operates large online fantasy football leagues. The stats are the lifeblood of the product.

MLB is investing a lot of money and resources into keeping and providing these stats. It's probably a decent source of revenue, also, when you consider that larger outfits such as Elias Sports Bureau, Stats Inc., et. al. are probably paying good sized fees too.
The players' union is in on the deal and would side with MLB on this.

It's always interesting when these issues arise around Baseball because of it's protected status. In this day and age, it's time to consider whether competitive baseball leagues should be allowed to begin playing. I really think that they should consider ways to modernize the leagues with out having to fiddle with the game itself. Like the way European soccer teams can have league mobility. You don't have to tinker with the on-field product to try that.

That'll never happen. Baseball thrives too much on sentimental traditionalism. It's much more within traditional thinking to find new ways to leverage that well-worn baseball branding (like stats licensing fees, or say, Jonny Damon Yankees jerseys) than to think forward and try something outside the box.

How to focus on the wrong thing.

2006-01-13T07:08:00.000-08:00

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The truth from iTunes

2006-01-09T19:05:00.000-08:00

iTunes has an interesting feature I like. It keeps your top 25 played songs handy in a list. What I like is that you can't fake it out (well, actually you can, but why?). If you want to know your musical tastes, look no farther than your top 25 list. Maybe you'll find a few suprises. Here's my list for the period of 2/2005 - 1/2006.

My pick for 2005 Album of the year would have to be The Cosmic Game from Thievery Corporation. That record stood out to me as my favorite last year.

I think Rails development is sustainable.

2006-01-04T16:23:00.000-08:00

I really think this a false-dichotomy that has been raised. "Is Ruby on Rails development sustainable or not?" was a recent headline on Slashdot. Since I write rails apps more or less for a living, I put that in the back of my mind to chew on before jumping to a conclusion. After all, it's certainly a perspective worth considering. No one likes to live out the anti-patterns.

My conclusion is that it is completely ridiculous to assert that Rails development is not sustainable.

I mean, compared to what? You could sustain a web app written in FORTRAN if you really felt like it. Likewise for C, C++, etc. Java development is certainly not any more 'sustainable' than rails development is. In fact, both Java and .NET both have the exciting feature that most people do horrible implementations with them. Same is true for dynamic langs, I guess, but I suppose that's what I'm trying to say. Any lang or framework/appserver is going to be a fairly GIGO system. If you are a disciplined developer with any talent, you can easily sustain "enterprise"-level complexity with Rails. Just as easily as you could with Java or .NET in my opinion. For anything that doesn't require the ever-nebulous "enterprise" strength, though, Rails is a sure no-brainer.

So throw that false dichotomy out. The question to ask yourself is really, "Do I produce good sustainable code for my application domain with Rails?" If the answer is no, maybe a trip to EJB training or Microsoft Tech Ed is worth your while.

Here goes...

2005-12-31T15:54:00.000-08:00

My friend and colleague Peter Williams has convinced me to try this again.
Here goes...

D