http://notkeepingitreal.com/articles/2007/11/02/nathaniel-talbott-why-camping-matters en-us 40 <p>Dude, Talbott, has actually spoken at all seven ruby conferences &#8211; damn dude. He gave love to <a href="http://whytheluckystiff.net">why</a>, and started live coding a blog in camping: creating posts, viewing posts, adding comments &#8211; good stuff.</p> <p>Now, breaking some eggs&#8230;</p> <p>Contrasting camping with rails:</p> <ul> <li>rails favors convention over configuration, but camping has <strong>no configuration</strong>.</li> <li>rails is boring (<a href="http://loudthinking.com">david</a> said so); camping is zesty</li> <li>rails encourages conformance; camping encourages experimentation</li> </ul> <p>Dude got all sales and marketing-centric, and realized while hacking one day that feeding his creative side is incredibly important. Regular, varied and appealing tasks are what we need &#8211; if we learn something new at every turn, no matter how small, we will be happier and more productive.</p> <p>Talked Rubyconf vs. Railsconf:</p> <ul> <li>hobbyists at rubyconf, professionals at railsconf</li> <li>generalists in ruby, focus in rails</li> <li>vitality from ruby, momentum from rails</li> </ul> <p>Thanks for coming; now help out our ruby community &#8211; go hack something!</p> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:23:00 -0600 urn:uuid:edc9b60f-f332-46ae-a557-a1dda811a571 Kevin http://notkeepingitreal.com/articles/2007/11/02/nathaniel-talbott-why-camping-matters Rubyconf http://notkeepingitreal.com/articles/trackback/1854