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2007 Retrospective

Posted about 5 months ago

I left ThoughtWorks a couple months ago and rejoined the ranks with independent contractors...since leaving TW I've had a chance to work in unique environments with Ruby and Rails. Where it seems the majority of Rails projects are product companies (i.e. startups, ecommerce and general web sites) I have for the most part worked with large organizations and now spend most of my time with a large global management firm (a.k.a "An Enterprise"). The obstacles and challenges are very different then the Rails sweet spot but they provide the opportunity to close the gaps ruby has from other platforms and fill a niche (and no I do not mean JRuby). I hope to roll out most of lessons learned into the community over this next year. The goal is to write useful content more frequently as I blogged very little in 2007 and wrote very little useful content for Ruby prior. The paucity of postings is mostly due to day to day work with my new clients and traveling: