[Bendug] Hello Everyone

[Mark Turner]

My new infatuation is symfony.  You should check it out.
http://www.symfony-project.com/
On 12/9/05, Tim Howe <thowe at bendtel.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 01:52:58 -0800
> Mark Turner <amerine at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello BendUGer's
> >
> > Whats is everyone up to?
> >
> > Kinda quiet lately.
>
>         Hello!  Currently my job has left me little time to sleep, let
> alone enjoy myself with other unix enthusiasts.  I'm going to have to do
> something about that.
>
> I have managed to find a bit of time to start a couple of projects that I
> am finding interesting.  I don't know if I will ever finish them, but I'm
> learning a lot by fumbling through them.  (How does one make a database with
> 43 billion records scale well?  Well, I may have found an answer to that --
> at least for my case.)
>
> You know how when you find a band that is awesome, but nobody has ever
> heard of them, you really enjoy them that much more, but once they become
> mainstream and everyone loves them, they aren't as exciting anymore?  Well I
> was worried that was going to happen with Ruby.  I read this the other day:
> http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000547.html
>
> Why does it bother us when something we love becomes popular?  Shouldn't
> we be happy?  Maybe it's that I just don't feel like I'm on the edge any
> more.  I thought about playing with Haskel now...  But no.  I still love
> Ruby.  It kicks butt.  I haven't even used Rails, and I may not.  Nitro
> actually looks a little more interesting... but is that because it isn't as
> well known?  Crap, am I gonna bail if it becomes popular?
>
> sheesh...
>
> --TimH
>



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-Mark A Turner-
amerine at gmail.com
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