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Original Post: Personal Message and Year in Posts
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Wow, this was a tremendous year of personal growth and transformation. A big, big thanks to everyone who was there in friendship and support. I have a ton of proud accomplishments to look back upon, and a bright future of opportunities.
I've been working full-time on finishing my book since November, which left me with time to consider my future, and plan for changes. I'm pleased to announce that as of January 1st, I am no longer with ThoughtWorks and will be working exclusively as an independent consultant and author. It was a difficult decision, but I'm sure it will turn out to be the right one. Much more information about that soon.
I wish you and your loved ones the utmost success and happiness in the new year. Without further ado, here is a list of my most memorable blog posts of 2006.
When an Idea is More Than Just an Idea
"Unfortunately, I was very young when he passed away, but I think that it was Manolo's influence that planted the seed of invention in my brain. As long as I can remember, I thought it was very cool to think up novel things and concepts and I wanted to be an inventor too."
No Ruby in the Browser
"In particular, I suspect a browser-plugin for Ruby would be a bad thing in the long run if it detracted or stole mindshare from the great Prototype/Scriptaculous integration we have in Rails."
Dominance
"I am really starting to believe that the dominance of Ruby on Rails for web applications is not diminished, and perhaps even enhanced, by the increasing field of contenders, none of which can ever rise above a decidedly secondary position."
More on Business DSLs in Ruby
"I will go ahead and say that I believe in breaking down the distinction between code and data."
Make the Jump
"Reading and hearing about the benefits of Ruby and Rails is nothing compared to actually experiencing the benefits yourself. Make the jump, then tell us about it." (Congrats to those of you who made the jump this year!)
The High-Maintenance Ruby Mainstream
"I think that employers with large numbers of High Maintenance people (like my own employer) will adopt Ruby and Rails, probably in large numbers over the coming years. That's mainstream enough for me. That's more than enough people to preserve the critical mass that drives innovation, create new jobs for all my Ruby friends and eyeballs for my Ruby-related publications."
Shallow vs. Deep in the Enterprise
Lots of Rails apps are "shallow". They don't have a huge domain model with tons of business logic and interactions. Traditional "enterprise" applications, some of them anyway, are "deep", that is to say, that persistence is way down underneath a huge, complex, domain model...
Semantic Enterprise Architecture
Mapping should be accomplished at the conceptual level (using semantic web technologies) rather than at the document-type level (syntax matching based on schemas).
How fast will it go?
Finally, an original satire piece, (no, not about any particular project) explaining how I feel when otherwise sane people decide against Ruby on Rails because Ruby isn't fast enough.
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