[LRUG] Ruby Contracting

[Vahagn Hayrapetyan]

Btw Tony, I bet you meant "aesthetic" and not "ascetic"?

Part of the problem is the bandwagon jumping. I find that Ruby has a strong
> set of ascetic values, partly innate, partly driven by central figures in
> the community.
>

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Anthony Green <email at acgreen.co.uk> wrote:

> On 16/02/2009 15:36, "Vahagn Hayrapetyan" <vahagnh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My impression is that the agencies advertising at CWjobs are currently
> > looking for folks for 2+ years' experience in Rails. Too bad if one is a
> > fresh-faced software idealist, young and full of dreams, who has only
> joined
> > the Rails bandwagon about a year ago or so.
>
> Part of the problem is the bandwagon jumping. I find that Ruby has a strong
> set of ascetic values, partly innate, partly driven by central figures in
> the community. This isn't always embraced, let alone understood by the
> MyLinkedSpaceBookersGoldRushLetsDoItInRails wave of immigration. I've seen
> CVs headed PHP/Ruby on Rails developer almost as if they were synonymous.
>
> > It's funny because I think most of the recruiters themselves don't have
> clue
> > about how long it takes for someone who was previously pro to become
> > reasonably fluent in a new framework.
>
> You had me at 'don't have clue'.
>
> Tony
>
>
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