Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Driver wants in on Ruby on Rails

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Obie Fernandez retells a cute story from the VP of Marketing at ThoughtWorks, John Guerriere, who met an upcoming Rails developer as his driver to the airport:

john: i was going to the airport and the driver (the car service we use) asks if i know martin fowler.

john: i said yes, why do you ask…

john: he shows me his RoR Agile book by Dave Thomas

john: He taught himself RoR and loves it….

john: Smal world…He used to be a developer b4 he moved from london here…hard time getting a job…