hbeaver

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• Member since: 10/06/08
• Profile views: 1050
• My tags: east, Atlanta, mac-fiend, security, background, loves, beer
• Atlanta, United States

About Me

I'm a jack-of-all trades-pre-bubble IT geek who started in hardware, moved into networking, did my NT admin stint, fell in love with Linux and then realized I loved solving problems through software. I've been a Ruby user since mid-2006. I had heard of this language from abroad but thought to myself, "geesh, another language to learn, I just got used to space-sytax of python". Ironically, this frustration was born out the staggering amount of possibilities and "everyone else sucks but us" blogs on web frameworks and languages. Maybe I'm alone, but at the time I was starting to prototype a new custom-CMS based on Spring and Hibernate. Maybe I'm lazy, but even then I thought the hookup and preparation was taking too much time. I screaming in my head: there has to be a better way! Something that is:

1) open-source
2) extensible
3) has a good ORM. Why oh why would I want to write a data layer for every FREAKING app!
4) has a good view/tag/template mechanism

Well sitting at P'Cheen in Old Fourth Ward in Atlanta,GA, drinking a beer no less, I expressed my disgust to a guy I noticed was IT related based on his laptop display. I have no idea who he was other than the fact he mostly worked on off-shore gambling sites and said I should check out Rails (which I had heard a little about, but was like, another framework?). I took his advise and after just a few days with the 1st edition book, I've never looked back. Secondly, after seeing the immense power of Ruby, I said I'd never write a shell script longer than 1/2 a page again.

Here I am.
Hank