Hi group,<br><br>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. <br><br>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.
<br><br>Looking forward to see how this brug evolves.<br><br>Regards,<br>Nick.<br><br><a href="http://www.redrobinsoftware.net/blog">www.redrobinsoftware.net/blog</a><br><br><br>