Carlos Matallín

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geek, blogger, entrepreneur and web designer. + info

Rails Rumble ‘09

I know I had this pending SO MUCH time. But when I wanted to write about it I simply couldn’t find the words to express what I actually felt.

Last August (damn! we are in October now!) was celebrated the most famous competition in the Ruby on Rails community which consists in setting a functional webapp and deploy it in less than 48h: the Rails Rumble.

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The Rails Way

These days I am trying to accomplish one of my 2009 New Year’s resolutions: Learn Ruby on Rails and be able to prototype, code and design one functional web application (you know, I’m in exams time…)

I have already worked with Ruby on Rails before, but only from the designer’s point of view: being able to implement my designs without the application to crash. Anyway the workflow with RoR, the philosophy behind and its singularities definitely definitely hooked me. Furthermore I must say to my own shame that I have only coded in C programming language in order to pass my practical lessons at the University.

To gain an insight into what I am talking about let’s face a real problem with which I had to deal while I am building this application.

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90’s are comming back

  1. Here comes the frames.
  2. Here comes the forums.
  3. Today I signed up for my very first time in a mailing list.

Bonus: The Joy of Tech comic strip agrees.