Saturday, March 18, 2006

DHH Interview

I just found a SYS-CON.TV interview with David Heinemeier Hansson that had some real quotable moments:

In his description of Ruby On Rails:
...we like to consider ourselves the Apple of open source web application development...

...it's extremely conventional. Most of the ideas in Ruby on Rails are the same ideas people have been building web applications on for the last ten years. They just hurt a lot less...
On Convention over configuration:
...In Java we call it XML sittups. You can produce just as much XML configuration as application code and that's just insane in our mind...
Does it scale?
...unquestionably yes. simply because Ruby doesn't invent a new architecture. We use exactly the same architecture as people who have been building the biggest sites on the internet.... shared nothing...
On the value of Rails.
[People think] it's so valuable to have extreme performance when there are tones of other attributes that are more valuable: programmer productivity, how maintainable your application is over time, ...

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