The KurtWerks Tinfoil Hat

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006, Kurt Wall wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:39:57PM -0500, A. Khattri took 17 lines to write:
>> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Kurt Wall wrote:
>> 
>> > I'm skeptical. Anyone who knows me will tell you I'm serious when I say
>> > I'm willing to be proven wrong.
>> 
>> BTW, just wanted to share this with the list:
>> http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/12/ruby_book_sales_surpass_python.html
>
>So, BookScan indicates that more Ruby than Python books sold in
>December. That's totally congruent with "the new shiny thing" theory
>I maintain. I also note that the overall buzz for Ruby on Rails was
>up during the last quarter of 2005. Great. We'll see how it all plays
>out. Just to be clear, I'm not saying that Ruby won't command a certain
>amount of attention, because I'm sure it will. Rather, it's got a large
>mountain to climb before the installed base gets anywhere near that of
>"traditional" LAMP.

Again I'll suggest reading the multi-month articles on Ruby on Rails that
have been running in the Linux Journal.  I think this month's edition had
the final article in the series.  The ones I read sounded interesting, but
gave no compelling reasons to switch our primary web development from Zope
and Plone -- in fact the last article seemed to say that Zope is better for
our use.

Bill
--
INTERNET:   bill at Celestial.COM  Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC
URL: http://www.celestial.com/  PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way
FAX:            (206) 232-9186  Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676

``Guns are no more responsible for killing people than the spoon is
responsible for making Rosie O'Donnell fat.''