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Reflections|Projections 2007

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Josh Kim
on October 12, 2007
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Here comes the yearly fun that is: Reflections|Projections 2007. People that I’d like to hear from are…

I think all the other ones don’t really apply to me, but then again, I might visit them. Last year I got a chance to hear from Max Levchin from Slide and PayPal, and it was really interesting. I’m kinda sad I didn’t see Joel Spolsky of FogBugz nor Jawed Karim, the third YouTube guy.

Here’s to a wonderful, nerdy weekend!

Quotes from “The Rails Edge”

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Josh Kim
on September 5, 2007
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One of the more interesting things I’ve read today.

The Rails Edge: Quotes and Notes

Definitely lots of little morsels of goodness here. A few of my favorites:

“Java is the blunt scissors of programming” — Dave Thomas

“The key to metaprogramming is understanding self. Isn’t that the key to life” — Dave Thomas

“Unless you understand the SQL code that Rails produces, your app will suck.” — Chad Fowler

“Rails deployment made you feel dumb. It was hard and then it still didn’t work” — Mike Clark

“I’m running, like 7000 Mongrels right now”
— Ezra Zygmuntowicz

“Do the dumbest, simplest thing that almost works” — Stuart Halloway

“If you can’t test it, then it’s not a beautiful design. If you can’t test it, it doesn’t exist” — David Chelimsky