Pursuit of Beauty by DHH. 2005 Rails Presentation.

Beauty leads to happiness
Happiness leads to productivity
Thus
Beauty leads to productivity

- DHH

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Here's a very old Rails presentation by DHH while Rails is pretty much starting up. So go read through it and try not to cry.

As you can see from the code, Rails of 2005 is pretty much like our Rails now.

#throwbackthursday #rails #dhh

Note: I don't own this. This is just something I found while browsing my nearly a decade old notebook drive.

Transcript

1. Pursuing beauty with Ruby on Rails David Heinemeier Hansson
2. Beauty leads to happiness,
3. happiness leads to productivity,
4. Thus
5. Beauty leads to productivity
6. You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right. Richard Feynman, Scientist
26. Migrations Plugins SwitchTower (and Gauge) Functional and unit testing Hooks and callbacks Action Mailer Action Web Services Liquid Databases and web servers
27. Questions? david@loudthinking.com