RE: [FR-devel] Introducing myself

[Curt Hibbs]

Philipp Meier wrote:
>
> I'm new to this list and will introduce myself as this list's
> policy suggests:
>
> I am a 24 years old guy from Ulm, Germany. My first contact with
> computers has been around 11 years ago. Soon I switched from DOS /
> Windows environment to unix / Linux. My first linux setup ran on linux
> kernel version 0.99pl13 (one of the most stable versions ever ;-)
> I'm doing  professional programming for six years now starting with
> perl. Mainly, i did web applications and in the company I ran till end
> of last year and in my current company we develope J2EE based
> applications -- which is the standard Java Application Server
> Environment.
>
> My first active contact to ruby was yesterday and considering my perl
> and java background you might understand that I fell in love with ruby
> immediately. Although I know how to tame emacs, I miss an ruby IDE like
> IDEA for Java. So I joined you, folks. This is a record time for
> first-ruby-contact till join-freeride, isn't is?

Yes, this probably is a record!

> I am particularely interested in refactoring and test-first programming.
> My most-wanted feature for freeride except the "standard" thing would be
> to utilise the fact that ruby classes etc. can be modified at runtime
> which should leed to very short test-programming-test cycles. I'd love
> to get rid of theese lengthy compile times and would appreciate to be
> able to change my classes behaviour during runtime -- without loosing
> the state of possible huge application state.

Well, you've definitely joined the right group. You desires are very much in
line with where we want to go with freeRIDE.

Curt