Wed 07 May, 2008
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“ I was given my life, I had to live it, and now I am giving it back. ”
Edelgard Clavey
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23:52 最佳雇主» 梦想风暴谁是最受程序员欢迎的雇主？
一篇关于最佳雇主的帖子，很高兴在里面看到了ThoughtWorks的名字。
很快，成为ThoughtWorker就要满一年了，这一年时间里，我一直享受着在ThoughtWorks工作的乐趣。确实，它和我之前工作的环境差别很大：开放的工作环境、没大没小的工作关系、不利于保持身材的零食、需要排队的游戏机等等。这段时间一直在考虑一个问题，对我而言，ThoughtWorks到底好在哪里。思来想去，我的答案是人文环境。
依然记得当年，我在当时的部门里发邮件尝试与大家讨论技术，应者寥寥；
依然记得当年，有人劝我放弃所谓新鲜想法，老老实实走在原来的道路上；
依然记得当年，有人对我说，只有做管理才有更大的价值，怎么你对管理一点兴趣都没有；
依然记得当年，我们把“以人为本”作为笑话来听；
……
我也依然记得，当年选择软件开发作为职业是因为热爱；
我也依然记得，当初遇到Darwin点燃了我对技术的热情；
我也依然记得，在本应完成一个功能的时间里完成整个系统重写的快感；
我也依然记得，修改别人留下的bug缠身的程序直至深夜；
……
用了自己职业发展的最初几年，我逐渐清晰了自己在职业发展路上的追求。我会努力走在自己预期的路上，如果环境不能再给予我所需要的，我会寻觅其它的环境。
在这里，我得以继续走在技术的路上；
在这里，身边有一群有想法的人，让讨论可以深入下去；
在这里，总有人能在不同的角度给你一些新鲜的东西，让我不得不偷偷去补各种各样的新知；
在这里，可以和有很多年的工作经验的人一起工作，学习他们解决问题的思路；
在这里，完成功能绝对不是开发的终点，大家总是竭尽所能让程序看上去更清晰；
在这里，关注用户价值会成为程序员也要思考的问题；
在这里，我有机会体验不同的角色；
在这里，我终于弄清楚了leadship和management不是一回事；
……
幸运的是，我坚持了自己的选择；幸运的是，我成为了ThoughtWorker。
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add to del.icio.us. look up in del.icio.us. add to furl“ It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. ”
Grace Hopper
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add to del.icio.us. look up in del.icio.us. add to furl add to del.icio.us. look up in del.icio.us. add to furlMichael has written up a guide on how to create and test patches with Git. A good read for anyone interested in contributing or following the development of Rails.
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Pratik’s documentation branch for Rails has moved to http://github.com/lifo/docrails. This branch is open for all to contribute to directly. Just send Pratik a note on Github asking for access and it shall be granted. There’s even a page for the conventions used on the branch.
This makes it easier than ever to help improve the documentation for Rails and harder than ever to just sit back and whine about it. Make something great!
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add to del.icio.us. look up in del.icio.us. add to furlPete Rock and CL Smooth – They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)
add to del.icio.us. look up in del.icio.us. add to furl“ Media that’s targeted at you but doesn’t include you may not be worth sitting still for. ”
Clay Shirky
add to del.icio.us. look up in del.icio.us. add to furlThu 01 May, 2008
Happy Camper Studio’s own David Koontz will be part of an impressive Ruby panel at the upcoming Java CommunityOne
David will be joined by JRuby luminary Thomas Enebo (Sun Microsystems, Inc.), Rich Manalang (Oracle), Mark Driver (Gartner), and others.
All of us fellow Campers are damned proud of David’s pioneering work with Monkeybars, and if you’re at all interested in super-sweet cross-platform GUI application development you have to check it out.
David will be attending both CommunityOne and JavaOne, and if you’re also going be sure to catch the Ruby panel and then track him down to learn more about the future of Ruby desktop development
add to del.icio.us. look up in del.icio.us. add to furl add to del.icio.us. look up in del.icio.us. add to furlThreat level orange, guys! The release candidate for Rails 2.1 is drawing awfully close, so if you’ve been sitting on a patch that just must make it in now is the time to rise hell or high water to make it so. Once we cut the release candidate, we’ll be loathe to introduce anything but bug fixes to the features already there.
So get in your saddle, cowboy, and make that patch happen. Remember that the party has moved to Github and Lighthouse. Giddiyap!
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