David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
How?
Oh, someone is looking out for the human here, not for the machine.
So that really got me interested.
And then I thought to myself, do you know what?
I know PHP quite well.
I'm not
an amazing programmer.
I haven't been working in programming for all that long, but maybe I can figure it out.
I'm going to give myself two weeks.
I'm going to write a proof of concept where I talk to a database, I pull some records, I format them a bit, and I display them on an HTML page.
Can I figure that out in a couple of weeks?
It took about one weekend and I was completely mesmerized.
I was completely mind blown because Ruby...
was made from my brain like a perfect tailored glove by someone I'd never met.
Like, how is this even possible?
There's line noise.
Here's a while loop that does five iterations.
You can literally type the number five
Now I'm calling a method under number five, by the way.
That's one of the beautiful aspects of Ruby, that primitives like integers are also objects.