There are certain computer programming languages now in use that attract a weird following.  Ruby has become a really fanatic-attracting language to the point where if I meet any Ruby developers at a party I just sort of edge away from them assuring them that I know exactly how awesome Ruby is and that I sacrifice a goat to Yukihiro Matsumoto every night, screaming and gibbering snippets of Ruby code while I slay the beast.

As weird and clique-y as they are, they always seemed kind of sane compared to the Rails people I met.  For those of you unfamiliar with this term, I congratulate you.  You are probably doing something important.  Even if you aren't, it's still sort of pleasing to me that you aren't familiar with this buzzword-laden nightmare, much less one of these deranged individuals trying to tell me that my CS degree was worthless, and that I should have focused in "business science" with a minor in "information." *

Now, I would like to start a startup.  And while that means taking a certain amount of good natured ribbing about Web 2.0, I am kind of tired of people assuming I am tasteless enough to use this shitheap.  And now I have been vindicated by an unlikely source:  a leader of the Rails community!

Or an ex-leader, I guess.  It's always kind of cool when someone fairly well-respected by a large group loses his shit and denounces his following.  Zed Shaw is the Jim Jones of Railstown.

I look forward to reading his updates, and so should you.  Another voice is added to my choir of profane blogs I check from work every day!



* Actual quote from Rails-jockey I met in Boston once upon a time.