What’s up ?
March 25, 2009 – 10:56 amLong time since I’ve blogged. Feels like blogging is already a thing of the past and anyway who’s got the time to write something decent and worthwhile.
Everybody’s tweeting their life away.
I myself am more and more worried about privacy and about leaving traces or personal opinions that may come to hunt me down years from now. If my Internet activities are public, which of course they are, I can only write about neutral things that may not indispose future clients or partners.
That does not leave much to blog about.
Anyway who’s got time ?
So right now I’m off to Scotland for Scotland on Rails.
Over the past year I have totally fallen in love with Ruby and its Rails icing. I am now working on a Saas project in the recruitment sector. It’s called Qameha. Great time to create a start up or is it ?
RoR makes it really enjoyable to build such applications. I feel like an engineer again, conceiving, building things and not like an ant trying to move mountains grain dust by grain dust by debugging php applications.
The Scotland on Rails conference promises to be very interesting with good speakers and subjects that will extend my grasp of the Ruby Ecosystem. I love this word “ecosystem”.
Besides the Qameha project, there are at least two other projects that I’m considering worth working on.
I’d like to partner with someone with a more commercial background and experience.
So if you know how to make a buck on the Internet and are looking for a geek partner, drop me an email.
Cheers
Alexis
CTO of 
2 Responses to “What’s up ?”
I see the point about privacy and precluding future client work etc. But I’ve come to think, maybe naively, that the flip side makes it worth it. Being on record over time backs up our core values much better than a specifically-tailored CV for example. It also makes us more careful writers.
The time spent is another problem, hence the popularity of twitter.
By Dave Frey on Mar 30, 2009
Yes, its amazing the impact that Twitter is having on blogging - why bother writing posts when you can stream your thoughts on a 24 hour basis (in easily digestible 140 character chunks!).
Anyway, hope you had/have a wonderful time in my home country. Scootland can be a very beautiful country - i just hope the rain stays away!
By Andy M on Apr 9, 2009