ALTERthought Blogs Archives: July 2007
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24 July 2007
ALTERthought is sponsoring BarCampRDU
Our team will be one of the sponsors for the 2007 edition of BarCamp in Raleigh-Durham to be held on August 4, 2007 at RedHat’s Raleigh campus. We were attendees last year and found the sessions to be invigorating and exciting – demonstrating the emerging vitality of the RDU area for emerging technology and business [...]
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19 July 2007
Ruby on Rails the Revolution?
I just jumped into the wayback machine and was inspired to think about technology adoption using a framework for the stages of political revolution – first shown to me by my high school History teacher and the school’s soccer coach, Larry Bosc. So, in addition to the way Geoffrey Moore canonized the technology maturation [...]
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5 July 2007
Go-Railers in the Midst …
Dian Fossey would be proud. The comments and feedback I’ve received regarding my last post ranged from the contemplative: “excellent (though painful to read)…” to the vitriolic: “retarted.” Suffice it to say, I was impressed with the throng of Railers defending their (our) beloved framework (and more importantly “movement”) like Sigourney Weaver defending African Mountain [...]
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2 July 2007
Blasphemy: The Case Against Ruby on Rails
In our last post I fawned over Ruby on Rails (RoR) like a schoolboy smitten by the new girl (let’s call her Ruby) at school. So, like the schoolboy’s heart wrenching realization that he mistook Ruby’s “hello, world” smile for a tender “will – you – be – my – boyfriend” countenance, I present a [...]
