Hello Michael,
I can''t tell you how happy I am to see your post! Not good for you
(or me) but I am relieved to see I''m not the only one affected by the
offshore model. I''m sure there are plenty of offshore people that read
these posts and this isn''t meant to insult them, but to let them know
that the model has definitely affected those of us who got to live the good
years in software consulting! The global economy has changed lots of things and
will continue to do so. Just so happens, the company I work for will be
utilizing those lowered salaries from a different country to help do some
telemarketing!
I came from the .NET world myself I will say that I like rails (and ruby) even
though I find myself completely ignorant to a world outside of Microsoft. My
biggest learning curve hasn''t been with Rails, but with Ruby and, more
specifically, the vast array of choices. By choices, I mean which web server to
use, which OS to use, and if Linux, then the whole slew of stuff that comes with
that. This is NOT an easy migration for a Microsoft guy and it is very humbling
to go from being able to do almost anything in the Microsoft world to being
completely lost and having to rely on these groups for answers. But...
I''m still here! It is the future (and partly the here-and-now) and it
is worth the learning curve.
In my 10 years of developing applications, I didn''t once make a post
to a newsgroup or forum except when I started tackling BizTalk all by myself.
In the short time I have been playing around with open source software, it is
the only thing that has saved me. I''m completely blown away by the
support of the groups and the quality of information they supply. I work from
home and lack the kind of support one might find in a corporate environment. I
lack the core knowledge of these systems that you gain by being around others
who can "show you the tricks." I''m a one-man-shop and it is
intimidating. But the community is great and it always helps whenever I have
raised a question.
On another note, I now exclusively use OpenOffice, I have a fully functional
PBX running on Asterisk and another server running on a totally free software
stack thanks to the open source community. I never reboot the linux machines
(that was just so uncomfortable at first, but really, you don''t need to
reboot them) and I have managed to hack together a pretty cool little
"CRM" app in Rails that we use to run the business. While it is still
in its infancy, it is functional and relatively bug free. I "build as I
go" and it is amazingly simple. For all the hell that scaffolding gets, it
is actually a very nice feature when you need to add functionality on the fly
and make it look prettier and function more properly later on.
Next on my list: RAGI (Ruby Asterisk Gateway Interface) integration with my
rails app. Wish me luck!
I used to consider myself a "techie" - but I was so wrong. That was
also very humbling... The people you will find in these groups are definitely
more technical than I ever thought of being - even though I was architecting
large-scale applications.
Anyway, welcome! Sorry for the long reply. I hope you find a great Open
Source project to work on. If not, then consider helping me build a vTiger /
SugarCRM replacement on Rails! That is one of my goals as soon as I find some
spare time....hopefully noone beats me to it! :-) What a great open source
project that would be for the ROR community!
Best of luck!
Michael
Michael Schramm <msm-/ANJPKf6j9/gQwqHt2fdtV+rxxDXKSc2@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
Hi,
having read "my job went to india" I decided to quit programming
within
the Microsoft environment and start something different...
So, is there any RubyOnRails project that in exchange for "reviving"
me
needs a loyal (code) contributor?
Thanks in advance
Michael
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