All Things Patrick - Working Hard to be Lazy!

Somebody in chat posted a link to RoR does not scale? which I followed to Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails. Reading through this I found this tidbit, Earlier this year, one of the core community members and creator of the popular Rails web server Mongrel abandoned rails and trashed the community. and followed it to Zed Shaw Puts The Smack Down On The Rails Community. I liked the tidbits posted so I went on to read the original article that started it all - Rails Is A Ghetto (warning: lots of language).

I guess the best part about Zed's rant is being able to learn from somebody else's experience. While a lot of it is entertaining I also find it quite disturbing. I hate to say more for fear of limiting his entire rant to a mere sentence or paragraph. I will however pull out a small part because it makes me feel a bit better about the downtimes between projects.

After Mongrel I couldn't get a gang of monkeys to rape me, so forget any jobs. Sure people would contact me for their tiny little start-ups, but I'd eventually catch on that they just want to use me to implement their ideas. Their ideas were horrendously lame. I swear if someone says they're starting a social network I'm gonna beat them with the heal of my shoe.

Especially considering, Before that I built software for finger print readers, network protocols, designed business processes, lead software teams, created portals, and generally rocked as a consultant. Now he's having a hard time getting people to even pay him.