The thoughts of Curt Hibbs on technology, software, Ruby, and whatever... tag:blog.curthibbs.us,2005:Typo Typo 2006-08-30T10:03:46-07:00 Curt Hibbs urn:uuid:00e6c9cb-94aa-4926-a088-dafa3d8d90bf 2005-12-07T00:00:00-08:00 2006-08-30T10:03:46-07:00

<p>It is not news to anyone who is part of the <a href="http://www.rubyonrails.com/">Ruby on Rails</a> development community that <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1841">Derek Sivers</a>, the creator/owner of <a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/">CDBaby.com</a>, has been converting his site from <span class="caps">PHP</span> to Ruby on Rails (he <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6286">blogged about it</a> back in January, 2005). But what I didn&#8217;t know was how extensive was his behind-the-scenes operation, and the fact that CDBaby.com is the second largest online music store behind Amazon!</p> <p>This and other interesting tidbits were revealed in Robby Russell&#8217;s <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8274">interview</a> of Derek Sivers and Jeremy Kemper.</p> <blockquote> <p><em><strong>Russell:</strong> Derek, you were a self-taught <span class="caps">PHP</span> programmer for several years, what were your first thoughts of Ruby?</em></p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p><em><strong>Sivers:</strong> I loved it right away. It made so much sense. After 7 years with <span class="caps">PHP</span>, I <strong>still</strong> have to look up the parameter order for array_search or strpos. Ruby felt intuitive right away.</em></p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p><em>I started using it for some shell scripts, and wanted it to use it more, but since almost everything I do is on the web, I had no practical way to use it until Rails came out.</em></p> </blockquote>

<p>It is not news to anyone who is part of the <a href="http://www.rubyonrails.com/">Ruby on Rails</a> development community that <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1841">Derek Sivers</a>, the creator/owner of <a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/">CDBaby.com</a>, has been converting his site from <span class="caps">PHP</span> to Ruby on Rails (he <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6286">blogged about it</a> back in January, 2005). But what I didn&#8217;t know was how extensive was his behind-the-scenes operation, and the fact that CDBaby.com is the second largest online music store behind Amazon!</p> <p>This and other interesting tidbits were revealed in Robby Russell&#8217;s <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/8274">interview</a> of Derek Sivers and Jeremy Kemper.</p> <blockquote> <p><em><strong>Russell:</strong> Derek, you were a self-taught <span class="caps">PHP</span> programmer for several years, what were your first thoughts of Ruby?</em></p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p><em><strong>Sivers:</strong> I loved it right away. It made so much sense. After 7 years with <span class="caps">PHP</span>, I <strong>still</strong> have to look up the parameter order for array_search or strpos. Ruby felt intuitive right away.</em></p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p><em>I started using it for some shell scripts, and wanted it to use it more, but since almost everything I do is on the web, I had no practical way to use it until Rails came out.</em></p> </blockquote>