[Brug-talk] Welcome

[Nick Boucart]

Hi group,

I am Nick Boucart, 33 years old. I have a strong background in python/jython
and java. I started looking at rails approx. a year ago.

I am an avid extreme programmer and as such an advocate of pair programming.
The belgian XP user group used to hold pair-programming parties, in which
they euhm, pair program on a common project. Maybe that is an idea for one
of the brug meetings, to define a small web 2.0-ish project, and work on it
during our meetings. This way, not only people will see different aspects of
programming in ruby and rails, but also will expose ways of people working
with it. If I see on screencasts how people fly with textmate on the mac, or
if I work together with senior eclipse users in java, I almost always learn
as much about coding and OO as I learn about using ide´s, small utilities
that make live easier, good practises, etc... Since I´m doing my rails
progamming mostly on my one (frankly, at the moment I´m only playing, I have
1 small datacenter monitoring webapp live at my previous company, but it is
not a giant web project) I miss the interaction of working with others,
learning and sharing knowledge.

Looking forward to see how this brug evolves.

Regards,
Nick.

www.redrobinsoftware.net/blog
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