Rails from LAX to PDX
I was sitting in a LAX terminal this morning on my new laptop, playing with some Rails code, and working on my book as my girlfriend read an article on String Theory next to me.
Out of nowhere, some guy walks up to me with a big grin and says, “Hi Robby!” and sits down next to me. It’s Mr. Derek Sivers, of CDBaby. He was heading to Portland… and I was heading home from my long weekend in Los Angeles. We chatted a bit, he showed me some of his fun PostgreSQL functions and how they were doing the multi-language stuff there. Pretty cool stuff.
Derek was pretty much one of the main reasons why I opted to really give Rails a full attempt. He and I met a few times last winter and during our meetings we talked about programming, postgresql, php, etc.. He made great book suggestions and talked about his cabin trip when he learned Ruby. This was before he decided to redo CDBaby in Rails. When he made the decision, I just had to know what all the fuss was about. Without Derek, there might not be a robby on rails. ;-)
On the flight home, I know that there were at least 2 passengers on the plane who were working on Rails in mid-flight. :-)
Aside from that, I am back home now and have piles of emails to respond to and things to get done. It was great to get a few days away. :-D
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