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by Piergiuliano Bossi.
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Some week ago I was doing a peer review of one of my team-mates. We came across one of the objectives that he had since our last review (more than one year and a half ago): P. should have deepen his knowledge and practice of the ruby language. The idea here was partially inspired by PragProg's concept of "learn a new language every year". Another source of inspiration came from the hacker's culture as described by Paul Graham articles.
P. wholeheartly agreed with the objective and slowly started devoting some spare time to study ruby, mainly by means of reading the PragProg's so called PickAxe book, at that time at his first edition, freely available on the web and automatically installed with ruby. The problem is that everyday job is to develop in java, there is really a little space for ruby in everyday activities.
Infact, P. clearly missed his objective, as he recognized himself as well. I wouldn't blame him, I know and I have seen that he tried. Apparently there was really no time, nor any significant occasion.
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