Support for 10x Productivity Increase with Rails!

[Dave Burt]

I just don't want to see us become divided against each other. We have a
strong culture and a common aesthetic. Let's focus on that.

In other news, the Ruby community's strong culture and common aesthetic
makes it 10x more cohesive than comp.lang.X!

Anonymous (-:

 

[Bob Aman]

My affection for Ruby, though, is not based on any particular tool, but

the language itself and the people who support it.

In the end, people preferring to use Java or PHP or Python or whatever
will look at Wee or Nitro or Rails, steal as much as they can, and be
better off, and I wish them well. But it's much harder to copy a
community and a culture.

Ahhh, and this too is huge for me. The java community doesn't have
why or his poignant guide!

 

[klaus]

.... stuff deleted ...

Anyway, it feels good to have my 10x claimed confirmed by an industry expert
to stated that he, too, was skeptical... until he had first-hand experience.

Curt

So how are you going to survive in web-consulting business if you
charge your customer for 5 days instead of 4 months?

-klaus.

 

[Eduardo Tongson]

So how are you going to survive in web-consulting business if you
charge your customer for 5 days instead of 4 months?

Charge them another 90 days for bug testing

 

[Eric Anderson]

So how are you going to survive in web-consulting business if you
charge your customer for 5 days instead of 4 months?

Easy, you sell more stuff.

Rails may not provide an order of magnitude productivity increase but I
know it does provide a productivity increase.

Before rails:

I can give you features X, Y and Z for Q dollars

After rails:

I can give you [A-Z] features for Q dollars.

You spend the same amount of time and make the same amount of money but
you give them a *much* better product. So when that customer has another
project who do you think they will come to? The guy still offering just
X, Y and Z or the guy offering [A-Z]? It more about increasing the value
to the customer. Increasing customer value gives you a competitive
advantage which will lead to continual work. That is where Rails will
help make a web-consulting business successful.

Eric

 

[Curt Hibbs]

So how are you going to survive in web-consulting business if you
charge your customer for 5 days instead of 4 months?

Shhhhhhh... Let's keep it our little secret! ;-)

Of course a surefire way to please the customer would be to charge them half
as much and deliver twice as many features.

Curt

 

[Martin Ankerl]

So how are you going to survive in web-consulting business if you

charge your customer for 5 days instead of 4 months?

They don't need to know it took only 5 days ;-)

martinus