Extreme Rails programming

What is considered as extreme Rails programming? How do you know you are coding in a zone where no man has gone before you?

That's the feeling of you standing on top of Mount Everest, with the world underneath your feet. That's the feeling when history is in the making before your eyes.

So how do you get there?

Got dumped by your girlfriend because you love Rails more than her? Uh-uh.

Solving a problem no one has thought of before in Ruby on Rails? Negative.

Writing Rails code on the moon? Nah.

Today I looked over a programming pair's shoulders, and I immediately realized that they were in a programming zone where no one ever has gone before them. So I took a picture as proof.

And it is...

Writing a Rails app in vim, with a Dvorak keyboard.



This is real, and it's priceless.

So do you know what key you press to yank a line?

(Thanks to Muness Alrubaie and David Vollbracht for this shot)

Canadians love iPod...

I mean, you gotta see this.

Read the story "the iPod-wearing native American".

Songs of the Extremos

My co-worker Shaun Jayaraj today showed me the Songs of the Extremos. This is funny stuff... Check this one out first:

Hey Dude (sing to the tune of - "Hey Jude" by the Beatles)

Hey dude
Your code smells bad
Go refactor and make it better
Remember
That tests are requirements
Then you can begin
To make it smell better

While talking funny about Agile here is another good one, The Agile Manifesto (Hip-Hop Remix).

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

translates into:

Peeps and tradin' rhymes ova' fake moves and bling-bling

Do you dig it?

Lovely business words...

There are a few words in the business IT world I dislike. The beauty is that in whatever order and however you put these words together in a statement they will deliver the exact same message - a broad and meaningless statement. Here are the candidates:

business
enterprise
architecture
management
solution
infrastructure
model

eg. Yesterday I worked on the enterprise business architecture of the infrastructure solution of the project.
eg. I am the architect of the business solution infrastructure team, managing the project's business model.