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I'll be formally announcing my book project very soon. The writing is starting to keep me very busy every night and has definitely sapped some of my energy for posting regularly to this blog.
My current project is a very fancy kiosk with Rails/Prototype/Scriptaculous driving the front-end and Ruby daemons managing the hardware to Rails interfaces. It's the first Rails project that I've done with a large (8 person), distributed (most in India) ThoughtWorks team and I can state confidently that the productivity benefits are holding up very well. Apparently Ruby has spread at TWI like influenza and there's a lot of excitement there. I'm impressed with how easily my colleagues are learning Ruby.
Next week I'm kicking off work on a significant project in Wilmington, DE. I'm leading a team of 4 ThoughtWorkers in rewriting and reinventing a critical-path backoffice banking system in Ruby/Rails. Based on the analysis done so far we're leaning heavily towards a DSL approach to the design that should reap many benefits for the client compared to how we know this type of system would normally be implemented. One of the great aspects of this project is that we have permission to discuss it publicly as long as we don't disclose their business processes, so we are planning on publishing a team blog just like our colleagues over at Greenpeace in the UK do with their cutting-edge social portal project written in Django.
Aslak "DamageControl" Hellesoy and I are collaborating again! Along with my girlfriend Desi (fellow Railser!) we are building a web-based tool named Kipling which facilitates Agile software development with stories. I'm having a great time with this project because 1) getting to pair with your girlfriend and one of your best friends is super-cool and 2) we are taking the opinionated software approach to how we design the features of the app -- and we think the difference between our product and competitors like Xplanner will be remarkable.
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