By gst
via pervasivecode.com
Published: Sep 24 2007 / 11:05
Derek Sivers of CDBaby kicks ass. He got a sophisticated and very very user-friendly, efficient, straightforward e-commerce system (including the back-end systems) written in PHP. Based on what I’ve read, he’s up there with Phil Greenspun in my opinion; that is, he’s among those who understand strategy and customer service and low-level technology and are able to build systems that don’t suck, resisting the temptation to be distracted by technological panaceas and fads. I may disagree with their individual technology decisions, but their higher-level thinking is excellent, so they’re definitely in the class of people who I’ll give the benefit of the doubt.
Comments
jtheory replied ago:
Nice article. I agree; the response *was* ridiculous -- it's normal to see a few shrill posts after any article that might be seen as a negative reflection on a given language/framework/etc., but seeing hundreds of them, repeating minor variations on the same few poorly-considered points, was startling.
peimei replied ago:
How come you guys hail the poster of the original article when his post was off base (just sayign that he spent 2 years writing a rails app disqualifies him from critiquing the language or platform). His post is simply a rant with an alarmist title, and the rails community responded in kind.
Now you go and use it as flame bait for traffic, not any better than the original poster that you are licking the boots of.
And yes, I am biased, but also savvy enough to see all the holes in both Derek's and your logic.
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