I’m in the middle of starting a (potentially) huge project with a couple of friends. Having just finished (well, technically, almost finished) a large enterprise Rails project, I am really looking forward to working in a small agile team, on an extremely tight deadline, but doing stuff that is relevant and interesting.
The enterprise project was an interesting experience, partly because of the technology stack we had to use: Rails on JRuby, developing on Windows machines (which is so painful, you just want to give up) and deploying on Websphere (bad) on zLinux (think IBM big iron) with a host DB/2 database. Lot’s of challenges right there, and lot’s of learning.
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