Talk about what makes a developer "the ultimate development tool" and how Ruby on Rails can help the right individual to become one. Delivered in Conferencia Rails 2009, in Madrid, Spain

1. La herramienta
de Desarrollo
defInitiva

2. the magnificent
javier ramírez
jramirez@aspgems.com

3. MagiC

4. MagiC
my #ss !

5. BUT...

6. the ultimate
development
tool

7. 1.the ghost
of
CHRISTMAS past

8. the happy
seventies

9. Space
&
army
projects

10. in time, every post
tends to be occupied
by an employee
who is incompetent
to carry out
his duties
- Peter Principle's Corolary-

11. if a 200-man project has 25
managers who are the most
competent programmers, fire
the 175 troops and put the
managers back to
programming
- Frederick P. Brooks -
the mythical man month

12. SHOW
ME THE
$$$$

13. finger
pointing

14. MonolitHs
are
soooo 80'S

15. 2.projects
are
conversations

16. DevELoPeR
vs.
ProgRamMer
suggested reading: http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html

17. Individuals and interactions over
processes and tools
Working software over
comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over
contract negotiation
Responding to change over
following a plan

18. university
sucks

19. knowing
grammar is
not enough
to be a
writer

20. autodidactism
takes
time

21. fall / winter
development

22. Simplicity
-the art of maximizing
the amount of work
not done-
is essential
- the agile manifesto -

23. CLIENTS
DON'T
KNOW
WHAT THEY
WANT

24. All your
requirements
are belong
to us

25. RELEASE
EARLY
RELEASE
often

26. the web will
always be a
little bit
broken
- tim berners lee - you know, that guy

27. not everything
worth doing is
worth doing well
- tom west - the soul of a new machine

28. do what you do well
and Stay up to date
team with your clients
and with your users
don't look for a culprit
just make it work

29. 3.run,
rails!
run!

30. extracted,
not
overdesigned

31. RAILS IS
GROUCHO
MARX

32. a nest
of early
birds

33. it's not
a tool
it's
*my* tool

34. At regular
intervals, the team
reflects on how
to become more
effective, then tunes
and adjusts its
behavior accordingly.

35. la herramienta de desarrollo definitiva
http://javier-ramirez.com
woRk http://aspgems.com
blog http://formatinternet.com
twittEr http//twitter.com/supercoco9
mAil jramirez @ aspgems.com
mEmber of http://spainrb.org