The only think more fun than XML is…more XML.
In this exciting episode, Coté talk with Dave Fayram (aka “KirinDave”), currently of PowerSet, about his experience writing Rails back-ends (at places like mag.nolia. and mog), being part of the Rails community, and functional programming.
Thanks again to Dave for standing in for Charles who’s at destinations unknown in Finland…we think.
(This episode edited by Coté)
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I just listened to this podcast today. Great conversation, thanks! Dave is an excellent guest. I really liked hearing about the interesting politics around Rails. The geeky stuff about macs and functional languages was fun also.
Posted 30 Apr 2007 at 9:26 PM ¶Great episode. Could you try to link up all the new technology stuff (and all other usless but funny stuff ;-)) which is mentioned in the episodes? I think Dave mentioned Merb and I had no ideo how to spell that (open source frameworks sometimes have strange names). I discovered it again by coinidence, but it would have been great if there had been a link.
Posted 01 May 2007 at 2:10 AM ¶Trackbacks & Pingbacks 6
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