Joel Spolsky (of Joel on Software) and Jeff Atwood (of Coding Horror) have created an excellent podcast for programmers called StackOverflow. Listeners can submit questions by emailing MP3s, so i promptly sat down and recorded one. But i think it’s silly to just send it into the ether and wait for someone else’s users to one day get a hold of it and begin discussing it, when i’ve got a perfectly good community right here! (all 3 of you…)
So give a listen and say something productive, you heathens:
Here’s the transcript for lazy listeners, Google spiders, and the Cubicly Challenged:
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Hey Jeff and Joel, great podcast.
My name is Loren Norman, and i’m a web entrepreneur and Ruby on Rails programmer in Atlanta, GA.
Joel, for your RailsConf talk, i think you should address the subject of Ruby in the enterprise. There’s a bit of a holy war going on for these fundamental Rubyists who shout “Ruby is so great, everyone should use it.” Of course, no language or technology can inherently belong, or not belong, in the enterprise, but the fact is it’s just not instantly practical for a corporation with millions of dollars of infrastructure in Java or .NET to suddenly inject Ruby into the mess.
So i think the real question is more along the lines of “How should a new language or technology go about entering the enterprise?”, is there a responsible path? perhaps it’s a task-by-task judgment? or maybe there ARE there some things that should inherently be true of a language before it should be considered?
So what are your thoughts, guys?
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And that question goes to my readers as well. To the comments!