By yavori
via rubycorner.net
Published: Mar 26 2007 / 15:08
Programming languages and tools are consider only for developers but smart companies have understood that in order to achieve best results they should not only care for business but for developers too. And what kind of better care than the one for programmers happiness and productivity by suppling them with the best tools available?
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jtheory replied ago:
Well... I don't see the business perspective here, just a developer perspective with too many exclamation marks and poor grammar. A lot of excitement over agile development/fast prototyping without any understanding of alternatives, downsides, etc.. Yes, there are a lot of benefits to iterative development, but it has a lot of problems from the business side (including "how do we sell this to a client who demands a price up front?", because yes, your clients probably don't have an unlimited budget or unlimited time).
Other obvious business questions that come up:
* what kind of hardware will we need to support launch, and for scaling over time, with Ruby on Rails vs other frameworks/languages?
* what commercial support is there for the software that will support the webapp (the various server software)?
* how many other companies have successfully implemented similar projects to ours with RoR and (specific deployment plan)?
* how many of our developers are currently experienced with RoR and deploying RoR-based projects? What will the learning curve cost? How easy is it to find support & developers with significant experience deploying RoR projects of (specified) scope?
And so much more....
jtheory complained ago:
jtheory reported this link as lame on 03/26/2007 @ 07:26:53
no business view as advertised, just overexcited RoR and agile dev fanboyism with bad grammar.
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